computer science

Puget Systems

Puget Systems is a computer science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Puget Systems rather than just read about it. In short: Puget Sound Systems, Inc., doing business as Puget Systems, is a custom computer business based in Auburn, Washington. It operates primarily through its website, and sell a mixture of custom and preconfigured computers including desktops, workstations, and servers.

Key takeaways

Puget Systems belongs to computer science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Puget Systems to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Puget Systems from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Puget Sound Systems, Inc., doing business as Puget Systems, is a custom computer business based in Auburn, Washington. It operates primarily through its website, and sell a mixture of custom and preconfigured computers including desktops, workstations, and servers. The business was founded by Jon Bach in 2000.

History Puget Systems was founded by Jon Bach, a student at the University of Washington, in 2000 under the name Puget Sound Systems. The business was named for the Puget Sound region in which it is located, but the name caused confusion about its services and was changed to Puget Custom Computers for clarity early in the firm's life. In early 2008, it was shortened to Puget Systems. The company was originally run out of the owner's home, and moved to an industrial warehouse as it grew. Puget Systems is currently located in Auburn, Washington.

Products For many years, Puget focused on building custom computer systems with an emphasis on quiet performance. During that time, the company catered to home users and gamers as well as specialists who wanted a computer tailored to their needs, such as video editing. Puget offered fans to reduce sound levels, which became its specialty. Along with custom systems, Puget also sold a range of preconfigured computers, with names indicative of their purpose (e.g., the Deluge was water-cooled and the Genesis was optimized for content creation). In 2007, Puget built a computer submerged in mineral oil. The project was inspired by similar computers submerged in vegetable oil, which provides very even cooling but has the disadvantages of being translucent yellow and going rancid after a few months. The mineral oil used for this project is clear and does not decay. Oil has a high specific heat capacity, so it takes this computer approximately twelve hours of operation to reach its peak temperature of eighty degrees Celsius. A radiator and pump could be attached to lower the temperature significantly. After more than a year of reported use, the only minor problem indicated was from oil wicking into peripherals and making a mess. While Puget never sold mineral oil computers, it offered a DIY kit and provided a construction tutorial on its website. This kit was discontinued in November 2014 after another company made patent licensing demands. In the late 2010s, Puget Systems developed in-house benchmark testing for applications such as Adobe After Effects and Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve. This appears to have coincided with a shift away from their earlier focus on customization and gaming, toward selling software-specific workstations for content creation, engineering, and scientific computing.

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Puget Systems

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Puget Systems claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In computer science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Puget Systems before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Puget Systems ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Puget Systems

In research: Puget Systems appears in computer science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Puget Systems in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Puget Systems is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Companies based in Kent, Washington, Companies established in 2000, Computer companies of the United States, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Puget Systems outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Puget Systems in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Puget Systems means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Puget Systems out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Puget Systems in simple terms?

Why does Puget Systems matter?

Because it connects several computer science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Puget Systems?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Puget Systems.