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Levels of transformation: Problem, algorithm, program/language, runtime system, instruction set architecture, microarchitecture, logic, circuits, electrons
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Hamming distance
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Error correcting codes
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Three components of an algorithm: Effective computability, definite and precise, ends
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Abstraction
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High-/low-level programming languages
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Multi-core system
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Unfairness
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DRAM (high level overview): banks, rows, columns, row hit/conflict, row buffer locality, memory controller, FR-FCFS
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High versus low memory intensity
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Sequential (streaming) versus random memory accesses
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Predicated execution
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Static versus dynamic schedulin
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Compile versus run time
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Computer architecture
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Programmable versus fixed-function processor
Levels of transformation: Problem, algorithm, program/language, runtime system, instruction set architecture, microarchitecture, logic, circuits, electrons
