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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Oct 24.
Published in final edited form as: Appl Math (Irvine). 2014 Jan;5(1):144–152. doi: 10.4236/am.2014.51017

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Typical architecture of modern desktop PCs. Central processing unit (CPU) reads memory directly from the fastest cache, which, if the data is unavailable reads from the slower random access memory (RAM) and if needed from the biggest but slowest hard disk drive (HDD).