deadlock Ostrich algorithm Priority inversion Race condition Readers-writer lock Sleeping barber problem Stalemate Synchronization (computer science)...
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Look up deadlock or deadlocked in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Deadlock commonly refers to: Deadlock (computer science), a situation where two processes...
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In computer science, resource starvation is a problem encountered in concurrent computing where a process is perpetually denied necessary resources to...
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process number (PID) controllers. Zip bomb Billion laughs attack Deadlock (computer science) Logic bomb Time bomb (software) Raymond, Eric S. (October 1,...
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In computer science, deadlock prevention algorithms are used in concurrent programming when multiple processes must acquire more than one shared resource...
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schedule, but not vice versa. Serializability Lock (computer science) Deadlock (computer science) Philip A. Bernstein, Vassos Hadzilacos, Nathan Goodman...
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such as Firefox, becoming much slower. Synchronization Busy spin Deadlock (computer science) Seqlock Ticket lock Silberschatz, Abraham; Galvin, Peter B. (1994)...
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In computer science, a lock or mutex (from mutual exclusion) is a synchronization primitive that prevents state from being modified or accessed by multiple...
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Ostrich algorithm (section Use with deadlocks)
In computer science, the ostrich algorithm is a strategy of ignoring potential problems on the basis that they may be exceedingly rare. It is named after...
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resources can be a source of indeterminacy leading to issues such as deadlocks, and resource starvation. Design of concurrent systems often entails finding...
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Deadlock: Planetary Conquest is a turn-based strategy computer game by Accolade. The game was officially released in 1996. The story revolves around eight...
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A computer cluster is a set of computers that work together so that they can be viewed as a single system. Unlike grid computers, computer clusters have...
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Parallel computing (redirect from Parallel computer)
computer architecture, mainly in the form of multi-core processors. In computer science, parallelism and concurrency are two different things: a parallel program...
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America, and the Future of the Global Jihad, a book by Bruce Riedel Deadlock (computer science), a situation sometimes called a "deadly embrace" This disambiguation...
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In computer science, a computation is said to diverge if it does not terminate or terminates in an exceptional state.: 377 Otherwise it is said to converge...
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Sokoban (section Computer science research)
deadlocks and complete the puzzle successfully. Sokoban was created by Hiroyuki Imabayashi in 1981 as a personal project for the NEC PC-8001 computer...
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Bill Dally (category Stanford University Department of Computer Science faculty)
Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University and MIT. Since 2021, he has been a member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology...
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Ric Holt (category Canadian computer scientists)
then worked for IBM. He went back to Cornell and obtained a PhD in computer science in 1970 under Alan Shaw. Holt joined the faculty at the University...
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Resource contention (redirect from Oversubscribed (computer science))
In computer science, resource contention is a conflict over access to a shared resource such as random access memory, disk storage, cache memory, internal...
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In computer science, a lease is a contract that gives its holder specified rights to some resource for a limited period. Because it is time-limited, a...
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Deadlock II: Shrine Wars is a science fiction turn-based strategy video game developed by Cyberlore Studios and published by Accolade, released on February...
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Sleeping barber problem (category Concurrency (computer science))
In computer science, the sleeping barber problem is a classic inter-process communication and synchronization problem that illustrates the complexities...
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Thread (computing) (redirect from Threads (computer science))
In computer science, a thread of execution is the smallest sequence of programmed instructions that can be managed independently by a scheduler, which...
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In computer science, a channel system is a finite-state machine similar to communicating finite-state machine in which there is a single system communicating...
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Dining philosophers problem (category Concurrency (computer science))
In computer science, the dining philosophers problem is an example problem often used in concurrent algorithm design to illustrate synchronization issues...
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Semaphore (programming) (redirect from Semaphore (computer science))
In computer science, a semaphore is a variable or abstract data type used to control access to a common resource by multiple threads and avoid critical...
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In computer science, synchronization is the task of coordinating multiple processes to join up or handshake at a certain point, in order to reach an agreement...
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Nico Habermann (category American computer scientists)
Dijkstra. In 1968, Habermann was invited to join the department of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University as a visiting research scientist. In...
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Blocking (computing) (redirect from Blocking (computer science))
these may be used to implement reactive systems.[clarification needed] Deadlock means that processes pathologically wait for each other in a circle. As...
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In computer science, the reentrant mutex (also known as a recursive mutex or recursive lock) is a synchronization primitive that may be locked multiple...
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