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Exercise 2 - Word (Edited)

This document provides instructions on formatting a Microsoft Word document. It describes how to: - Divide text into two columns - Add a footnote defining the term "computer" - Use a dropped capital letter for the first letter of the first paragraph - Add a header, footer, and page number - Include a page border

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Exercise 2 - Word (Edited)

This document provides instructions on formatting a Microsoft Word document. It describes how to: - Divide text into two columns - Add a footnote defining the term "computer" - Use a dropped capital letter for the first letter of the first paragraph - Add a header, footer, and page number - Include a page border

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Introduction to Microsoft Word and Formatting Document

Objectives: Students must know how to use the header and footer, columns, page border, drop
caps, footnote, justifying paragraphs

A supercomputer is a computer that is at the frontline of current processing capacity, particularly


speed of calculation. Supercomputers introduced in the 1960s were designed primarily by Seymour
Cray at Control Data Corporation (CDC), and led the market into the 1970s until Cray left to form his
own company, Cray Research. He then took over the supercomputer market with his new designs,
holding the top spot in supercomputing for five years (19851990). In the 1980s a large number of
smaller competitors entered the market, in parallel to the creation of the minicomputer market a
decade earlier, but many of these disappeared in the mid-1990s "supercomputer market crash".
Today, supercomputers are typically one-of-a-kind custom designs produced by "traditional"
companies such as Cray, IBM and Hewlett-Packard, who had purchased many of the 1980s
companies to gain their experience. The IBM Roadrunner, located at Los Alamos National Laboratory,
is currently the fastest supercomputer in the world.
The term supercomputer itself is rather fluid, and today's supercomputer tends to become tomorrow's
ordinary computer. CDC's early machines were simply very fast scalar processors, some ten times
the speed of the fastest machines offered by other companies. In the 1970s most supercomputers
were dedicated to running a vector processor, and many of the newer players developed their own
such processors at a lower price to enter the market.
The early and mid-1980s saw machines with a modest number of vector processors working in
parallel to become the standard. Typical numbers of processors were in the range of four to sixteen.
In the later 1980s and 1990s, attention turned from vector processors to massive parallel processing
systems with thousands of "ordinary" CPUs, some being off the shelf units and others being custom
designs.
Today, parallel designs are based on "off the shelf" server-class microprocessors, such as the
PowerPC, Opteron, or Xeon, and most modern supercomputers are now highly-tuned computer
clusters using commodity processors, combined with custom interconnects.

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Instructions: type the text above in MS Word. Modify so it look like the sample attached. For the font type and
size, please use Arial 12.
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paragraphs are divided into 2 columns


(Highlight all text/paragraph, click Page Layout > Columns > Two)

select the word computer, click References > Insert Footnote and type the definition of a computer

use drop cap for the first A, click Insert > Drop Cap > Dropped

use header and footer, use the insert page number and put a page border
click Insert > Header , Insert > Footer & Insert > Page Number

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