https://en.algorithmica.org/hpc/complexity/Recent content in Complexity Models on AlgorithmicaHugo -- gohugo.ioen-ushttps://en.algorithmica.org/hpc/complexity/hardware/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://en.algorithmica.org/hpc/complexity/hardware/The main disadvantage of the supercomputers of the 1960s wasn’t that they were slow — relatively speaking, they weren’t — but that they were giant, complex to use, and so expensive that only the governments of the world superpowers could afford them. Their size was the reason they were so expensive: they required a lot of custom components that had to be very carefully assembled in the macro-world, by people holding advanced degrees in electrical engineering, in a process that couldn’t be scaled up for mass production.https://en.algorithmica.org/hpc/complexity/languages/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://en.algorithmica.org/hpc/complexity/languages/If you are reading this book, then somewhere on your computer science journey you had a moment when you first started to care about the efficiency of your code. Mine was in high school, when I realized that making websites and doing useful programming won’t get you into a university, and entered the exciting world of algorithmic programming olympiads. I was an okay programmer, especially for a highschooler, but I had never really wondered how much time it took for my code to execute before.