Tutorial 4

Question 1

 Supercomputer
- most expensive
- for solving massive scientific problems

 Mainframe computer
- main,central computing system for major corporations.
- for mission critical application, such as transaction processing.

 Server
- provide services for users within large organization or to web users.
- for access by many concurrent users.

 Workstation
- for medical, engineering, architectural, or animation and graphics
design users.
- for visualization and rendering of these three-dimensions models

 Personal computer
- for personal computing and small business computing.
- portable computers(I.e. notebook computers,netbooks,tablets, and
smartphones) have increasingly become part of and organization’s
information system infrastructure.
Question 3

 Virtualising servers
- companies take many physical servers and combine them so they run
on single larger and more effiecient server, each in its own virtual space.

 Power management software

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