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CLARK UNIVERSITY College of Professional and Continuing Education (COPACE). Management Information Systems. Lection 0 2. Plan. Hardware: architecture; classification; basic devices. Software: classification; system software; application software; instrumental software.
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CLARK UNIVERSITY College of Professional and Continuing Education (COPACE) Management Information Systems Lection 02
Plan • Hardware: • architecture; • classification; • basic devices. • Software: • classification; • system software; • application software; • instrumental software.
Personal computer and Electronic computer machine Computer – a programmable electronic device capable of processing data and computation, as well as performing other tasks of symbols manipulation. Electronic computer machine –complex of technical and software tools, designed for the automation of the preparation and decision of users’ tasks.
Computer arrangement Arrangement Architecture Structure
Computer structure – the combination of its functional elements and links between them. Elements: From the main logical nodes of the computer until the simplest schemes. Graphical representation: The structural scheme, with the help of which you can give a description of the computer on any level of detail.
Computer structure We distinguish the structure of hardware, software and hardware-software. Choosing a computer for the solution of our problems, we are interested in the functional capabilities of the hardware and software modules.
The characteristics of the computer, determining its structure Technical and operational characteristics : performance and productivity, indicators of reliability, validity, accuracy; the capacity of the RAM and the external memory, overall dimensions, the value of technical equipment and software, the features of the operation, etc.
Performance … of computer: the speed of the processor throughput of the bus or the exchange rate to external hard drives frequency of the images shifton display … of CPU - the speed of execution of operations by processor.
Productivity Productivity of processor is measured : by the speed of execution of commands over numbers with a floating point (flops); By the speed of execution of commands "register-to-register"; clock rate of processor.
Reliability – property of computers to perform the functions for a set period of time necessary to solve the task.
Faults - malfunction of the individual elements or the connections between them.
Faults Faults Sudden fault mechanical destruction of elements Gradual refusal degradation of the parameters of the computer
Computer accuracy – possibility to distinguish almost equal values: 32-, 64-, 128-bit
Computer reliability – property of the information to be correctly perceived by the user. Characteristics: probability of receiving accurate (correct) results.
Computer reliability Possible methods of control of reliability of: To solve standard tasks To repeat calculations To control decisions on other computers and to compare the results.
Computer architecture – multilevel hierarchy of hardware and software tools. The specific implementation of the levels determines the specifics of the structure of computer.
Single processor computer All functional blocks are connected by a common bus.
Multi-processor architecture If a computer has multiple processors then there may be organized many streams of data and many streams of commands.
Multi computing system Multiple processors, entering into a computer system, don’t share a common memory, and have each its own (local).Each computer in the multimachine system has a classical architecture.
Classification of computers powerful machines and computer systems Net computers Role of computer in the network workstations clusters servers
Computer memory The memory is a set of devices that serve to memory, storage and issue of information.Some devices, included in this set, are called mass-storage device (RAM).
Storage devices with random access RAM - randomaccessmemory Access time does not depend on the location of the area of the memory (for example, RAM).Types:SDRAM,DDR SDRAMDR DRAMThe hardware implementation:the SIMM, the DIMM
Storage devices with direct access Due to the continuous rotating, the possibility to appeal to a certain area of the storage device cycle is repeated. Access time depends on the mutual arrangement of the site and read/write heads and is determined by the speed of rotation of the storage device
Storage devices with serial access Consistently reviewed areas, while we does not take a position opposite the read/write heads Magnetic tapes
Иерархическая организация памяти в современных ЭВМ
Processor Processor – crystal grown according to the special technology of silicon. It contains many millions of separate elements – transistors: processor, co-processor, cash I, cash II
Co-processor Processor Main computing device Special unit for floating point operations. Maintenance of high-precision and complex calculations, work with a number of graphical programs. Small (a few tens of Kilobytes) ultra-fast memory that is used to store intermediate results of calculations Cache I Cache II More slow, size from 128 КBto 2048 KB На кристалле процессора расположены
Processor features the architecture type (CISC, RISC) Bit-depth: internal (registers) and external (data bus) the presence of the cache-memory clock rate (MHz) the degree of integration
File system - part of the operating systems, which defines a way to organize, store and naming data to the information media.The file system determines the format of the physical storage of the information, which is grouped in the form of files. File systems
Software a set of programs, systems of information processing and program documents, necessary for their operation 33
Software a set of programs, systems of information processing and program documents, necessary for their operation 34
Applications 36
Data exchange technologies Clipboard DDE OLE 37
Clipboard The start and ending of the programs don’t affect on the contents of the buffer. One and the same fragment can be used in the documents several times: when you insert the contents of the clipboard does not change. 38
OLE 39
Component Object model(COM) Component Object Modelis a technical specification, representing a strict set of rules by which objects are created and destroyed, interact with each other and show their functions 40
Drag&Drop Drag&Dropspecifies the visual, oriented on the use of the mouse way of exchanging information using the clipboard 41
Compound documents Compound documents integrate objects created in a variety of applications that support OLE.Such documents can contain many objects of other documents. For example, the Microsoft Word text editor that supports OLE, can receive the tables and graphs from processing program Microsoft Excel spreadsheets 42
Embedding Embedding - the possibility to insert an item in a multiple-document without saving the references to the data source object. For example, you can embed an Excel spreadsheet to a Word document. Then the object, which is located in a compound document, will be completely independent from the original source. Then change the primary object will not affect the embedded object 43
Binding Microsoft Word document can contain a link to the Excel spreadsheet. The table and all its data are completely in Excel, but can be used in a Word document. If the initial data of the table are changed, these changes are automatically displayed in the Word document Binding depends on the location of the objects. In other words, if the Excel table move to the new folder, the link is broken. 44
Immediate activation of objects If you need to change or edit the object, created in another application, library OLE will cause the necessary application 45