Abstract: Abstract Computer technology has made amazing progress since the first general‐purpose electronic computer was created half way through the last century. This rapid rate of improvement is mainly driven by advances in the technology used to build computers but is also (and increasingly so) due to innovations in computer design needed to harness the tremendous capabilities of integrated circuits. Examples are memory hierarchies, pipelining, and parallelism. This article gives an overview of modern computer architectures and outlines programming practices that will lead to efficient use of the hardware we are likely to encounter in biostatistics. The article concludes with qualified guesses as to the nature of computing in the future.
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-09-29
Language: en
Type: other
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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