Investigating the advantages of a 64 Bit Microprocessor architecture

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Description

Creator:

Keppel-Jones, Trevor

Responsibility:

Trevor Keppel-Jones

Start Date:

2003

End Date:

2003

Date Range:

2003 April 02

Physical Description:

1.7 MB of textual records (PDF)

Notes:

Audience: Undergraduate. -- Dissertation: Thesis (B. A.) -- Algoma University, 2003. -- Submitted in partial fulfillment of course requirements for COSC 4235. -- Includes figures and tables. -- Contents: Thesis.

Bibliographic Information

Publication:

Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.:

Standard No:

OSTMA-COSC-Keppel-Jones-Trevor-20030402

Physical Location

rec_shelfloc:

2013-064-001

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Algoma University Theses collection

Container Number:

001

Conservation

Historical Context:

The main purpose of this project is to explore the function and capability of 64 bit processors. Sixty-four bit processors have been on the market for roughly 5 years now, but it is not clear what their advantage is over the 32 bit processors. The 64 bit processor would be expected to provide benefits in the area of computation speed and mathematical accuracy. My project explores the advantages of the 64 bit processor over the 32 bit processor specifically in the area of floating point computation.

Language:

All material is in English.

GMD:

electronic

textual record

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