Hibernation (also known as suspend to disk, or Safe Sleep on Macintosh computers) in computing is powering down a computer while retaining its state. When...
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Sleep mode (redirect from Sleep (computing))
its state prior to hibernation, with all programs and files open, and unsaved data intact. In contrast with standby mode, hibernation mode saves the computer's...
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Reboot (redirect from Rebooting (computing))
able to manage different power states and thereby sleep and/or hibernate. While hibernation also involves turning a system off then subsequently back on...
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the study and practice of environmentally sustainable computing or IT. The goals of green computing include optimising energy efficiency during the product's...
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multitasking, by allowing execution to be suspended and resumed Hibernation (computing) or Suspend to disk, powering down a computer while retaining its...
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return to hibernation, and cannot contact Earth for help due to an overly long communication delay. He attempts to break into the crew hibernation room, in...
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SETI@home (category Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing projects)
volunteer computing projects such as Folding@Home. The spread of mobile computing devices provides another large resource for volunteer computing. For example...
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unreliable, and spread across too many disparate sources. Thus, EISs hibernated until the 1990s when the information age quickened pace and data warehousing...
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State (computer science) (redirect from State (computing))
when the computer comes out of hibernation, and the processor can take up operations where it left off. Data (computing) "What is stateless? - Definition...
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automatically reboot the machine in one minute of issuing the command. Booting Hibernation Sleep mode Ctrl+Alt+Del Shutdown | Microsoft Docs "Reactos/Reactos"....
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the power or switches the system to a low-power state when inactive. In computing this is known as PC power management and is built around a standard called...
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HTCondor (redirect from Condor High-Throughput Computing System)
open-source software portal List of volunteer computing projects Sun Grid Engine IBM Spectrum LSF High-throughput computing Thain, Douglas; Tannenbaum, Todd; Livny...
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which enabled Standby and Hibernate states. However, hibernation support was extremely limited and vendor-specific. Hibernation was only available if compatible...
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the same state. In such cases, system images can be used for backup. Hibernation is an example that uses an image of the entire machine's RAM. A process...
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Big and Ugly Rendering Project (category Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing projects)
non-commercial volunteer computing project using the BOINC framework for the rendering of 3D graphics that has been in hibernation as of 2020. The project...
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as quantum computing increases the potential to allow brute-force attacks to become more efficient in the future. However, quantum computing is less effective...
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Uptime (category Real-time computing)
account time spent in sleep or hibernation. Thus, the boot time will drift forward every time the computer sleeps or hibernates.[citation needed] The NET command...
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Transient (computer programming) (redirect from Transient (computing))
serialized. In Hibernate and other persistence systems, transient describes an object that has been instantiated, but is not associated with a Hibernate session...
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Wake-on-ring (category Computing stubs)
by Wake-on-LAN, which is newer but works in much the same way. RS-232 § Ring Indicator "Wake on Modem" entry from Smart Computing Encyclopedia v t e...
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published in 1983. By 1988, Norton Computing had grown to $15 million in revenue with 38 employees. In 1990, Norton Computing released the Norton Backup program...
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SETI@home beta (category Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing projects)
SETI@home beta, is a hibernating volunteer computing project using the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) platform, as a test environment...
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Trusted Platform Module (category Trusted computing)
Richard Stallman suggested to replace the term "Trusted computing" with the term "Treacherous computing" due to the danger that the computer can be made to...
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Microsoft Windows (category Computing platforms)
into families and subfamilies that cater to particular sectors of the computing industry – Windows (unqualified) for a consumer or corporate workstation...
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Persistence (computer science) (category Computing terminology)
back-formation. Orthogonal persistence is widely adopted in operating systems for hibernation and in platform virtualization systems such as VMware and VirtualBox...
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Serialization (redirect from Serialization (computing))
In computing, serialization (or serialisation, also referred to as pickling in Python) is the process of translating a data structure or object state...
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temperatures and limited nutrition availability during winter by means of hibernation. During that time, bears go through a series of physiological, morphological...
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Booting (redirect from Boot (computing))
In computing, booting is the process of starting a computer as initiated via hardware such as a physical button on the computer or by a software command...
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Amazon Web Services, which offers a suite of cloud computing services that make up an on-demand computing platform. List of Amazon products and services History...
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NTFS (redirect from Compact (computing))
2016-07-18. Retrieved 2011-12-02. "The New Technology File System". Forensic Computing. 2007. pp. 215–275. doi:10.1007/978-1-84628-732-9_6. ISBN 978-1-84628-397-0...
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