• In computer science, a task, job or process is said to be CPU-bound (or compute-bound) when the time it takes for it to complete is determined principally...
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  • input/output operations to be completed, which can be juxtaposed with being CPU bound. This circumstance arises when the rate at which data is requested is...
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  • either I/O-bound or CPU-bound. An I/O-bound process is one that spends more of its time doing I/O than it spends doing computations. A CPU-bound process...
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  • an additional cost in the form of an expensive CPU computation: CPU-bound functions would consume CPU resources at the sender's machine for each message...
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    In computing, the clock multiplier (or CPU multiplier or bus/core ratio) sets the ratio of an internal CPU clock rate to the externally supplied clock...
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    the CPU is the bottleneck. The design goals of Mantle are to allow games and applications to utilize the CPUs and GPUs more efficiently, eliminate CPU bottlenecks...
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    to state that it includes mostly the last minute. For single-CPU systems that are CPU bound, one can think of load average as a measure of system utilization...
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    interactive processes that are given higher priority with respect to CPU bound processes, therefore users are immediately assigned computing resources...
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  • running the process on a multiprocessor machine. Due to signaling with a CPU-bound thread, it can cause a significant slowdown, even on single processors...
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  • processes that are mostly I/O-bound over processes that are CPU-bound). As a simple example, when two otherwise identical CPU-bound processes are running simultaneously...
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  • are waiting for input or output (called "I/O bound"), and those that are fully utilizing the CPU ("CPU bound"). In early systems, processes would often...
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  • reducing performance. Hence, it is generally used when the workload is not CPU-bound. Dynamic frequency scaling by itself is rarely worthwhile as a way to...
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    multiple cores. Another problem is that long-lasting computations and other CPU-bound tasks freeze the entire event-loop until completion.[citation needed]...
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    compilation often provides better performance consistency, particularly for CPU-bound tasks. For short-lived Lambda invocations, Rust and Go generally maintain...
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  • but are not limited to: Centralized databases store data on a single CPU bound to a single certain physical/geographical location. Distributed databases...
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  • sufficiently CPU-bound. This again highlights why dynamic voltage scaling is generally done in conjunction with dynamic frequency scaling, at least for CPUs. There...
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  • puzzle. Moreover, the underlying functions used by these schemes may be: CPU-bound where the computation runs at the speed of the processor, which greatly...
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    Erik-Oliver; Robertson, William (2012-12-03). TRESOR-HUNT: attacking CPU-bound encryption. ACM. pp. 71–78. doi:10.1145/2420950.2420961. ISBN 978-1-4503-1312-4...
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  • as texture, bandwidth, and fillrate. (If a program is highly TCL-bound or CPU-bound, supersampling can be used without much performance hit.) According...
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  • cross-platform compatibility over Psyco. Psyco can noticeably speed up CPU-bound applications. The actual performance depends greatly on the application...
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  • launching another. $ find /path -name '*.foo' | xargs -P 24 -I '{}' /cpu/bound/process '{}' -o '{}'.out xargs often covers the same functionality as...
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  • will return early with EINTR; if a signal is received while the task is CPU bound, the task will be suspended between instructions until the signal handler...
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    Originally designed to be used in Busicom calculator MCS-4 family: 4004 – CPU 4001 – ROM & 4-bit Port 4002 – RAM & 4-bit Port 4003 – 10-bit Shift Register...
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  • lengthy description of tea, causing Eddie the Shipboard Computer to become CPU-bound and unable to fight the Vogon ship off. Desperate, Zaphod decides to hold...
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  • short CPU bursts. Give preference to processes with high I/O bursts. (I/O bound processes will sleep in the wait queue to give other processes CPU time...
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  • choose an appropriate number of hashes for the lifespan of the system). CPU-bound hash functions are still vulnerable to hardware implementations. Such...
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    use of the extra keys, as well as double-speed-no-video execution of CPU-bound code (such as intensive numerical calculations) in self-made C64 programs...
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  • used disks rather than drum storage, and the B5700, which allowed multiple CPUs to be clustered around shared disk. While there was no successor to the B5700...
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  • puzzle protocols, in which clients are required to compute hard CPU or memory-bound puzzles that favor clients with abundant computational resources...
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  • transform bound scenario, an ad-hoc written application can be used. The use of simple algorithms and minimum fragment operations ensures that CPU bounding does...
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