software lockout is the issue of performance degradation due to the idle wait times spent by the CPUs in kernel-level critical sections. Software lockout...

A regional lockout (or region coding) is a class of digital rights management preventing the use of a certain product or service, such as multimedia or...

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multithreading Out-of-order execution Shelving buffer Speculative execution Software lockout, a multiprocessor issue similar to logic dependencies on superscalars...

In a general sense, a lockout chip is a chip within an electronic device to prevent other manufacturers from using a company's device to perform certain...

– Binary Modular Dataflow Machine, a SMP MIMD runtime environment Software lockout OpenHMPP Raj Rajagopal (1999). Introduction to Microsoft Windows NT...

the scheduler. Kernel-level critical sections are the base of the software lockout issue. In parallel programming, the code is divided into threads. The...

of execution Software lockout Xeon Phi Patterson, David; Hennessy, John (2018). Computer Organisation and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface (RISC-V ed...

application software runtime will no longer be achieved through frequency scaling, instead programmers will need to parallelize their software code to take...

with lockout chips that will only allow them to play their appropriate games. Both Japanese and North American systems have the same NTSC lockout, and...

The Checking Integrated Circuit (CIC) is a lockout chip designed by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) video game console in 1985; the...

have each node set to perform the same task, controlled and scheduled by software. The newest manifestation of cluster computing is cloud computing. The...

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purposes. Grids are often constructed with general-purpose grid middleware software libraries. Grid sizes can be quite large. Grids are a form of distributed...

open-source MPI implementations, which fostered the development of a parallel software industry, and encouraged development of portable and scalable large-scale...

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genuine region 1 players. Many "multi-region" DVD players defeated regional lockout and RCE by automatically identifying and matching a disc's region code...

The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) is a self-regulatory organization that assigns age and content ratings to consumer video games in Canada...

championship. The 1996 NBA lockout was the second lockout of four in the history of the NBA. It took place on July 10, 1996. The lockout was imposed after the...

optimizations to be implemented. Outside Japan, the Switch 2 does not use regional lockout. In Japan, Nintendo sells the standard international multi-language model...

role in the 1995 lockout were the primary cause of another lockout that occurred just three seasons later. During the 1998–99 lockout, Falk was often described...

adapters, or through modification of the console. Internally, a regional lockout chip within the console and in each cartridge prevents PAL region games...

The Codemasters Software Company Limited (trade name: Codemasters) is a British video game developer and former publisher based in Southam, England, which...

Although each version is essentially the same, several forms of regional lockout prevent cartridges for one version from being used in other versions. The...

of storing up to 1 GB of data. The Dreamcast itself features regional lockout. While the higher-capacity DVD-ROM format was available during the console's...

IBM Selectric typewriter, first released in 1961, had a mechanical key lockout feature designed to smooth out typists' irregular keystrokes that, to many...

such as multiple displays, screen-scaling, remote screen and keyboard lockout, clipboard synchronization and "on the fly" color-depth reduction for enhanced...

Crippleware is computer software or hardware that has been intentionally designed to have some of its features disabled or not working to its full capability...

Teamsters at its largest hauling operation in Alameda County, CA. The lockout lasted a little less than a month and put 900 members of the Teamsters...

10NES system, a lockout chip which was designed to prevent cartridges made without the chip from being played on the NES. The 10NES lockout was not perfect...