(a)A Computer System is to be used an application server (middle layer of three tier architecture). What should be the Processor type, type and sizes of memory system, type of instructions, type of registers, types of addressing modes for this computer?
I am doing MCA frm IGNOU. The above question has been asked by IGNOU in its CS01 (Computer Fundamentals) assignment. I looking for some good answers so that I can get atleat 20 marks in my CS01 module and pass the paper. Please help me by proving either the answer or hint or link to resourses, which will benifit me answering to the question.
2006-10-21 23:52:47 · 2 answers · asked by computersir 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
It's very vague. It doesn't like the kind of work, how many connections to the servers.
In today's world if I was putting together a server out of the box it would be an Intel dual or quad core or possibly an AMD dual core with a 64 bit complaince and 16 and 32 bit backwards compatiblity.
As for the instruction sets, they come with the processors and the AMD sets are a bit different from the Intel sets, which also means the registers will be different, as will the pipe flow.
No mention is made of an OS, hard drive specification or other peripheraials.
One one piece of equipment we are using an IBM P3 running at 900 MHz with only 363MB of RAM and an ATA complaint drive, which is basically old technology and it serves a connection server to a WAN with thousands of other nodes like ours.
Our server communicates wtih two other boxes that each do specific tasks and run their own applications. Those boxes are lesser than the server.
The Server runs NT, while the boxes run XP Pro.
They probably chose this mode for ease of custom programming, but personally I would have gone with a Mac system for more reliability under a graphics intense operational process, but the OEM of the machine the system oversees based themeselves on a PC base.
The central WAN is either UNIX or NT that communicates with both Apple and DOS technologies, as well as with our system.
Your specifications doesn't set up much of a basis to make any recomendations on memory, except having enough to run the OS and application base and we have, basically only 1/2 a Gig of Ram on our OLD P3 system to run NT and the primary application, communicate and direct the flow of four boxes (XP pro Win 2000), two machines and one or two perhrpherial devices.
In this istances it uses a true IBM instruction set or BIOS on all 4 boxes.
To be dealing with registers you need to know why you are delaing with registers and then see what's out there.
Today Intel and AMD are the two biggest and things are not quite the same as it was 20 years ago when you had the Motorolla 68000 with it's plain wrap, multipurpose registers.
The Intel chips are still retroactive to IBM 20 bit registering, 8/16 bit programming, 64Kb capture motiff for DOS EXE and COM proessing, yet they also work with 32 Bit NT, XP and ME, plus the newest boxes will work with 64 bit Vista.
I would also work with the most modern Memory DDR3,
But, again, you need to know what you're doing and why. What speeds of memory do you need, what will you be interfacing with, what are the load needs.
This becomes a COST EFFECTIVE vs PERFORMACE AND EXPANABILTY effect means.
Our system is basically below the home computer I'm using now! Our system is ATA, mine is SATA-2, our system is DIMM and my system is DDR2
Our system is basicaly one step above my OLD computer I got in 1999.
In order to make a custom box as your specs call for you need to know WHAT chips still exist out there (486, P1, P2, P3, P4, etc.) what mother boards are still found, what RAM they take (SIMM, DIMM, DDR, DDR2, DDR3) what BIOS set they support (IBM, Phonix, etc.), what OS you inted to use, what Hard drive (SCSI, ATA, SATA, SATA-2, Raid or single systems), whater perirpherials.
That information is just not there!
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