State the Steps to provide more computing power
In order to provide more computing power, the following steps may be taken:
- Add more processing power by addition of more number of processors. But there is a limitation to this also. In most servers, it may not be possible to add more than six processors. The number of processors required should be carefully decided keeping in view the future requirements of the company. The Xeon based Intel processors are of extremely high capacity as compared to the traditional processors.
- Add more memory (both hard disk as well as primary memory). This means that extra memory cards for primary memory may be added. Usually, the main memory is doubled and kept in terms of any value raised to the power of 2; for instance, 8 MB, 16 MB, 32 MB, 64 MB, 128 MB, 256 MB, 512 MB, 1024 MB (or 1 GB), etc. are acceptable memory space indicators. It may also be necessary that the amount of cache be enhanced based on the need. The cache memory is normally counted in terms of kilobytes. The hard disks come in different capacities like 8 GB, 18 GB, 40 GB, 72 GB, etc. to choose from. Addition of more memory indicates that there will be lesser read/write operations on the hard disk as well as the processing speed would be higher as the primary memory is faster than the secondary.