handle that it previously allocated. This is a form of resource leak, analogous to a memory leak for previously allocated memory. In secure computing...
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otherwise make use of the resources". As with handles used elsewhere in computing, Handle System handles are opaque, and encode no information about the...
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Jan Mark Handles, a character in the Doctor Who episode "The Time of the Doctor" Handle (computing), an abstract reference to a resource Handle, in a communication...
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concert to perform very large tasks. Fog computing – Distributed computing paradigm that provides data, compute, storage and application services closer...
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Opaque pointer (redirect from Handle class)
heavily used in the Qt and KDE libraries. Application binary interface Handle (computing) Programming idiom Chris McKillop. "Programming Tools — Opaque Pointers"...
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traditional hard-computing algorithms heavily rely on concrete data and mathematical models to produce solutions to problems. Soft computing was coined in...
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system File descriptor Food labeling regulations Gene nomenclature Handle (computing) Identification Identity (object-oriented programming) Identity document...
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Process identifier (category Process (computing))
User identifier (UID) Group identifier (GID) Thread identifier (TID) Handle (computing) Program Segment Prefix (PSP) What is PID 0? Linux kernel code:...
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Scalability (redirect from Scale (computing))
would not be as scalable, because one warehouse can handle only a limited number of packages. In computing, scalability is a characteristic of computers, networks...
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In computing and computer programming, exception handling is the process of responding to the occurrence of exceptions – anomalous or exceptional conditions...
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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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In computing, an epoch is a fixed date and time used as a reference from which a computer measures system time. Most computer systems determine time as...
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In computing, redirection is a form of interprocess communication, and is a function common to most command-line interpreters, including the various Unix...
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combines the functionality of a traditional mobile phone with advanced computing capabilities. It typically has a touchscreen interface, allowing users...
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1% rule (Internet culture) Anonymous post Prosumer Pseudonym End-user computing, systems in which non-programmers can create working applications. End-user...
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Information Systems (EISs). Due to problems primarily with data refreshing and handling, it was soon realized that the approach wasn't practical as information...
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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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specialized processing capabilities to handle particular tasks. Usually heterogeneity in the context of computing refers to different instruction-set architectures...
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Bit (redirect from Bit (computing))
The bit is the most basic unit of information in computing and digital communication. The name is a portmanteau of binary digit. The bit represents a...
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Supercomputer (redirect from Super computing)
performance scales. However, basic grid and cloud computing approaches that rely on volunteer computing cannot handle traditional supercomputing tasks such as...
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belonging to either network bordering it. This metaphor applies to the computing use as the DMZ acts as a gateway to the public Internet. It is neither...
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Grid computing is the use of widely distributed computer resources to reach a common goal. A computing grid can be thought of as a distributed system...
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There are characteristics that set recovery oriented computing apart from all other failure handling techniques. Isolation in these types of systems requires...
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Massively parallel (redirect from Massively parallel computing)
architecture to handle the processing of very large amounts of data in parallel. Multiprocessing Embarrassingly parallel Parallel computing Process-oriented...
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System resource (redirect from Computing resource)
it) and handling resource contention (when multiple processes want to access the same resource). Computing resources are used in cloud computing to provide...
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Smart device (section Ubiquitous computing properties)
ubiquitous computing and to be used in three main system environments: physical world, human-centered environments, and distributed computing environments...
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principle Distributed computing Fine vs coarse grained SOA Wilson, Gareth (2015-02-06). "The Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing - Tech Talk". Archived...
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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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Computer science (redirect from Computing science)
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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In computing, an event is a detectable occurrence or change in the system's state, such as user input, hardware interrupts, system notifications, or changes...
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