⊿ Point. {R} Glossary. ◢ Keyword: R. ▰ Sources. 〓 Books [B] ◥ University. {q} PhD. ⏫ THEMES. ⏫ Big Data. [B] Big Data. ⚫ USA. ↂ EndNote. ☝️ BD Dummies. (managing) Resource Pools. Computational resource. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Something a computer needs needed to solve a problem, such as processing steps or memory In computational complexity theory, a computational resource is a resource used by some computational models in the solution of computational problems. The simplest computational resources are computation time, the number of steps necessary to solve a problem, and memory space, the amount of storage needed while solving the problem, but many more complicated resources have been defined. [citation needed] A computational problem is generally[citation needed] defined in terms of its action on any valid input.
Examples of problems might be "given an integer n, determine whether n is prime", or "given two numbers x and y, calculate the product x*y". As the inputs get bigger, the amount of computational resources needed to solve a problem will increase. Describing generally accessible computing equipment [edit] Formal quantification of computing capability.