Computers and productivity

Computers, Obsolescence, and Productivity

What effect have computers had on U.S. productivity growth? This paper shows that increased productivity in the computer-producing sector and the effect of investment in computers on the productivity of those who use them together account for the recent acceleration in U.S. labor productivity. In calculating the computer-usage effect, standard NIPA measures of the computer capital stock are ina...

Measuring Productivity on High Performance Computers

In the high performance computing domain, the speed of execution of a program has typically been the primary performance metric. But productivity is also of concern to high performance computing developers. In this paper we will discuss the problems of defining and measuring productivity for these machines and we develop a model of productivity that includes both a performance component and a c...

Simplifying Software Development and Increasing Software Productivity on High End Computers

The complexity of modern scientific software is an important issue that needs to be addressed as part of an effort to revitalize high end computing (HEC). The complexity arises from both the scientific demands and the increasingly complex computers on which the software is run. We believe that HEC software developers need to be able to use a higher level of abstraction to express their computat...

Generating Productivity Growth: A Review of the Role of Workplace Practices and Computers

The Productivity of Listed Companies of Computers and Related Equipment Manufacturing Industry

Indicators system of China’s computer manufacturing enterprises of listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen can be established to reflect the efficiency of production, which accord to the number of employees, fixed assets and other economic data. Integrated data envelopment analysis (DEA) models are used, combining with evaluation and statistical tests of Synthetic Average method, Borda method...