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A computer is a machine that can be programmed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations (computation) automatically. Modern digital electronic computers can perform generic sets of operations known as programs. These programs enable computers to perform a wide range of tasks. A computer system is a nominally complete computer that includes the hardware, operating system (main software), and peripheral equipment needed and used for full operation. This term may also refer to a group of computers that are linked and function together, such as a computer network or computer cluster.
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Central processing unit (CPU)
Some electronic circuit, which executes instructions of a computer program, such as arithmetic logic, controlling, and input output operations.
CPU-bound
A task, job or process is said to be CPU-bound (or compute-bound) when the time it takes for it to complete is determined principally by the speed of the CPU.
Common examples of CPU bound operations:
- Audio or image processing. Convert video.
- Computer vision: an image is composed of millions of pixels, each pixel has 3 values / colors, processing that normally requires computing something on those pixels, all at the same time. Resize image.
- Machine Learning: it normally requires lots of “matrix” and “vector” multiplications. Think of a huge spreadsheet with numbers and multiplying all of them together at the same time.
- Deep Learning: this is a sub-field of Machine Learning, so, the same applies. It’s just that there is not a single spreadsheet of numbers to multiply, but a huge set of them, and in many cases, you use a special processor to build and / or use those models.