• In computing and parallel processing, memory semantics refers to the process logic used to control access to shared memory locations, or at a higher level...
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  • single-threaded execution of code, the memory model provides the semantics of the Java programming language. The original Java memory model developed in 1995 was...
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    operational semantics) or as a mathematical function (denotational semantics). A language may also be defined by an interpreter in which the semantics of the...
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    parallel computing: bit-level, instruction-level, data, and task parallelism. Parallelism has long been employed in high-performance computing, but has...
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  • Safe semantics is a computer hardware consistency model. It describes one type of guarantee that a data register provides when it is shared by several...
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    In computing, a library is a collection of resources that can be used during software development to implement a computer program. Commonly, a library...
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    cloud computing applications and systems. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Internet of things, Data and Cloud Computing (pp. 1-5)...
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  • Concurrent computing is a form of computing in which several computations are executed concurrently—during overlapping time periods—instead of sequentially—with...
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  • parallel. Parallel computing may be seen as a particularly tightly coupled form of distributed computing, and distributed computing may be seen as a loosely...
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  • associated with blocking. Concurrent computing Data dependency Non-blocking algorithm Race condition Scheduling (computing) Stallings, William (2004). Operating...
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  • categorically-organized fashion." Memory semantics Sparse distributed memory Semantic similarity McRae, Ken; Jones, Michael (2013). "Semantic Memory". In Reisberg, Daniel...
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    Semantics is the study of linguistic meaning. It examines what meaning is, how words get their meaning, and how the meaning of a complex expression depends...
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    In computing, a cache (/kæʃ/ KASH) is a hardware or software component that stores data so that future requests for that data can be served faster; the...
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  • capability computing. That is, a single application could be run across the entire system. This is in contrast to cluster-style capacity computing, in which...
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  • In computing, a memory model describes the interactions of threads through memory and their shared use of the data. A memory model allows a compiler to...
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  • of specialization in memory order semantics are the programmers who author software frameworks in support of concurrent computing models. Note that local...
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  • and introduction of computing hardware, such as I/O devices, from the design and introduction of other components of a computing system, thereby allowing...
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    In computing, virtual memory, or virtual storage, is a memory management technique that provides an "idealized abstraction of the storage resources that...
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  • Referent (category Semantics)
    in a relation, the other being called the relatum. In fields such as semantics, semiotics, and the theory of reference, a distinction is made between...
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  • In computing, a memory barrier, also known as a membar, memory fence or fence instruction, is a type of barrier instruction that causes a central processing...
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  • Datalog (section Semantics)
    sugar); they have no impact on the semantics of the program. There are three widely-used approaches to the semantics of Datalog programs: model-theoretic...
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    general-purpose parallel computing. To that end, Buck developed Brook, a programming language designed to enable general-purpose computing on GPUs. His work...
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    Computing is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computing machinery. It includes the study and experimentation of algorithmic...
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  • computer's memory as a single address space, shared across multiple processes or threads using shared memory with copy-on-write semantics (known historically...
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  • This is a list of computing and IT acronyms, initialisms and abbreviations. 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also References...
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    Turing tarpit, any computing system or language that, despite being Turing complete, is generally considered useless for practical computing Unorganised machine...
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    and databases. In the early days of computing, a number of terms for the practitioners of the field of computing were suggested (albeit facetiously) in...
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  • database transactions for controlling access to shared memory in concurrent computing. Transactional memory systems provide high-level abstraction as an alternative...
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  • Comparison of instruction set architectures (category Computing comparisons)
    types, what state there is (such as the main memory and registers) and their semantics (such as the memory consistency and addressing modes), the instruction...
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  • (1999-03-10). "An Operational Semantics for Parallel Call-by-Need" (ps). Research Report. 99 (1). Faculty of Mathematics & Computing, The Open University. Ennals...
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