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• CISC instruction set

  what are most built in instruction made up of

  multiple simple instruction
• CISC instruction set

  what does large instruction set allow

  allows programmer of Assembly language to use fewer instructions
• CISC vs RISC

  what does RISC have that CISC is contrasted with

  RISC has a library of simple and efficient instruction while CISC has complex instruction made up of simpleer instructions
• CISC VS RISC

  which one has few addressing modes

  RISC
• CISC vs RISC

  which one is more expensive

  CISC is the more expensive processor
• Processors usually fall under one of the 2 categories...and what they stand for

  CISC- Complex Instruction Set Computer

  RISC- Reduce Instruction Set Computer
• what is CISC

  they have large instruction set build into it
• what is RISC

  has small number of essential instructions built in and each of these instructions can be completed in a single clock cycle
• CPU's vs GPU's

  which one has many of smaller cores that are efficient at processing large amount of visual data in smaller chunks simultaneously

  GPU
• CPU's vs GPU's

  which one processes task in a serial order(one after the other)

  CPU
• multicore systems allow multitasking more easily , why

  as processing workload can be shared across the cores
• optimised-indivisual pieces of software also need to be used to be optimised to take full advantage of the multicore system
• parallel,

  cores complete all the same instructions on...

  slightly different sets of data
• parallel

  what is it

  A parallel CPU is one that has alot of cores
• uses of GPU

  the second use is supercomputers as a parallel processor where...

  -to process the graphical information for a computer to output what the user is doing

  -...a lot of data needs to be processed simultaneously.
• what are parallel made for

  made for processing large amount of data very quickly
• what does GPU stand for

  Graphical Processing Unit
• what is a GPU desgined and made for

  designed and made for processing graphical output from computer system
• what is a multicore

  are CPU chips that have multiple cores inside a single CPU physcial chip