Designing a Computer to Meet a Specific Task

Parameters: In 10 to 12 complete sentences, identify the CPU architecture, memory, and storage, and state why each item was selected. Please include a table indicating the cost of the items and their specifications. 

· Choose only one of the following scenarios: Users at remote campuses complain that Wi-Fi connectivity is unreliable. We want to purchase a lightly powered, efficient device to monitor the status of the Wi-Fi. Please recommend a device to efficiently monitor the quality of the Wi-Fi and Internet

· We need to purchase several very inexpensive devices to display pictures of 70” televisions around our buildings. The devices will need to store 50 GB of data. Please recommend a device that can display 4K photos on these 70” televisions

· A researcher needs to perform artificial intelligence research using Nvidia V100 PCIE GPUs on a power-based supercomputer. Please recommend a development workstation that would cost-effectively allow them to develop their code. (Cost-effective means that the price shouldn’t exceed $5,000.) This device requires 32 GB of memory and 1 TB of storage

· Our company needs to deploy a new server with highly reliable average performing storage (100 TB). The server runs a standard Windows or Linux operating system and requires, at minimum, 16 GB of memory. Please recommend a device that cost-effectively meets these requirements

Plagiarism

You are expected to write primarily in your own voice, using paraphrase, summary, and synthesis techniques when integrating information from class and outside sources. Use an author’s exact words only when the language is especially vivid, unique, or needed for technical accuracy. Failure to do so may result in charges of Academic Dishonesty.

Overusing an author’s exact words, such as including block quotations to meet word counts, may lead your readers to conclude that you lack appropriate comprehension of the subject matter or that you are neither an original thinker nor a skillful writer.