Workstation PCs Lauren Cugliotta Elizabethtown College
[email protected] Abstract― This paper is to describe, in thorough detail, Engineers what a workstation PC is. Details will include specifications in Researchers design, price, and how they operate. This paper will also Architects highlight comparisons to other PCs. And others, such as animators [2][3]. Keywords for understanding – RAM – Random Access Memory. The working memory IV. BASICS OF WORKSTATION COMPONENTS of the workstation [20]. Workstations tend to contain the following components [1]: CPU – Central Processing Unit. The component that is responsible for interpreting and executing most of the 1) ECC RAM – Error Correcting Code Memory [5]. commands from the hardware and software for the machine a. How it works: ECC is a method of detecting [21]. and correcting single-bit memory errors. GPU – Graphics Processing Unit. The GPU is largely Computers process data through “bits”. With responsible for rendering the graphics that will be displayed ECC memory, there is an extra bit, which is on the monitor [22]. called a parity bit. This bit is used to detect DIMM – Dual In-Line Memory Module. “Module that memory errors. However, they have their contains one or several random access memory (RAM) chips limitations. They cannot detect even number on a small circuit board with pins that connect it to the errors, only odd. They also do not correct the computer motherboard” [23]. errors, the ECC memory does. ECC memory DDR4 RAM - double data rate fourth generation uses these parity bits to store an encrypted synchronous dynamic random-access memory. RAM with code when writing the data to memory, and increased speed and lower voltage than other generations of the ECC code is stored at the same time.