Problem
1. What s the difference between lossy and lossless compression? For what types of data is lossy compression normally used?
2. Describe how scaling up differs from scaling out. Given the speed difference between a typical system bus and a typical high-speed network, is it reasonable to assume that both approaches can yield similar increases in total computational power?
3. What is a multicore processor? What are its advantages compared with multiple-processor architecture? Why have multicore processors become available only recently?