318. Q U I Z NO. 13

Q U I Z   NO. 13

Computer

1.     WWW was by Berners-Lee .

2.    Wikipedia by Jimmy Wales.

3.    Wiki leaks by Julius Assange

4.    http://info.cern.ch  is the first Web site by Berners-Lee.

5.    http://info.cern.ch was first put up on August 6, 1991.

6.    Internet birth place is Stanford Univeristy.

7.    IC was devised by Jack S Kilby in Sep. 1958.

8.    IC is a monolith.

9.    Kilby used germanium in IC.

10.  SSI = Small Scale Integration

11.   LSI = Large Scale Integration             1970  

12.  MSI = Medium Scale Integration                 1960

13.  VLSI = Very large Scale Integration  1980

14.  ULSI = Ultra Large Scale Integration

15.  Today a CHIP contains billions of transistors.

16.  Chip is made using Photolithography.

17.  Photolithography is done using UV light.

18.   THz range is from 100 GHz to 10 THz.

19.  Super computer speed is measured in “Flops”.

20. 1 flop = 1000 trillion operations per second  = 10¹⁸

21.  Super computer processing speed is 1.759 PFlops.

22. 10,00,000^th word is web 2.0

23.  The first bubble Dot-com bubble came in circa 1995–2001.

24. The second bubble is that of Web 2.0.

25.  The term Web 2.0 was coined in 1999.

26. PETAFLOP is expressed as a thousand trillion operations per second.

27. Blue Gene The world's fastest computer

28. Getting close to petaflop speed is IBM's Blue Gene with a top speed of 360 trillion operations a second. [ 360 x 10¹⁵]

29. Earth Simulator The world's fastest computer was the Earth Simulator in Yokohama, Japan. It had a top speed of 40 trillion operations a second

30. RAID (redundant array of independent disks, originally redundant array of inexpensive disks)

31.  RAID is now used as an umbrella term for computer data storage.

32.  The term "RAID" was first defined by David Patterson, Garth A. Gibson, and Randy Katz

33.  Redundant Array of Independent Disks at the University of California, Berkeley in 1987.

34. RAID  is for reliability and availability, performance, and capacity.