• Spawn in computing refers to a function that loads and executes a new child process. The current process may wait for the child to terminate or may continue...
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  • in-game creation or re-creation of an entity Spawn (computing), a function that executes a child process SPAWN (Salmon Protection and Watershed Network)...
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    Computer (redirect from Computing device)
    of the analytical engine's computing unit (the mill) in 1888. He gave a successful demonstration of its use in computing tables in 1906. In his work...
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  • Fork (system call) (category Process (computing))
    spawn (computing) wait (system call) Nyman, Linus (25 August 2016). "Notes on the History of Fork and Join". IEEE Annals of the History of Computing....
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  • Cilk was restricted to high-performance computing. The emergence of multicore processors in mainstream computing meant that hundreds of millions of new...
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  • For example, threads may be created using the spawn keyword. Consider the naive algorithm for computing the Fibonacci numbers: fun fib 0 = 0 | fib 1 =...
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  • Wait (system call) (category Process (computing))
    resources.[citation needed] exit (system call) fork (system call) Spawn (computing) Wait (command) "Wait System Call in C". GeeksforGeeks. 2017-06-03...
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  • Work stealing (category Parallel computing)
    problem of executing a dynamically multithreaded computation, one that can "spawn" new threads of execution, on a statically multithreaded computer, with...
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    [[file:|Kateryna Yushchenko (scientist)|0px|alt=]] Women in computing were among the first programmers in the early 20th century, and contributed substantially...
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  • the Productive, Easy-to-use, Reliable Computing System (PERCS) project funded by DARPA's High Productivity Computing Systems (HPCS) program. Its primary...
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  • Child process (category Process (computing))
    A child process (CP) in computing is a process created by another process (the parent process). This technique pertains to multitasking operating systems...
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  • Message Passing Interface (category Parallel computing)
    a portable message-passing standard designed to function on parallel computing architectures. The MPI standard defines the syntax and semantics of library...
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    IBM (category Cloud computing providers)
    U.S. patents generated by a business. IBM was founded in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR), a holding company of manufacturers...
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  • increase in computing power that new hardware can provide. The law originates from a humorous one-liner told in the 1990s during computing conferences:...
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    generalized computing devices. Parallel GPUs are making computational inroads against the CPU, and a subfield of research, dubbed GPU computing or GPGPU...
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    In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is a cyberattack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable...
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    games in the series, as well as of other of its greater Mario franchise, spawned similar characters such as Yoshi, Donkey Kong and many others. Claes Oldenburg's...
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  • needed] Free and open-source software portal Concurrent computing Distributed computing Parallel computing "Release 1.18.4". 21 May 2025. Retrieved 25 May 2025...
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    kernel userspace initialization, a panic is typically triggered if the spawning of init fails. A panic might also be triggered if the init process terminates...
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  • oneself by one's own unaided efforts, was in use in 1922. This metaphor spawned additional metaphors for a series of self-sustaining processes that proceed...
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  • Trigger (redirect from Trigger (computing))
    Environmental factor Flip-flop (electronics) Schmitt trigger, in electronics Spawning trigger, causing fish to breed This disambiguation page lists articles...
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    inventory control. It spawned a class of machines, known as unit record equipment, and the data processing industry. The term "Super Computing" was used by the...
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    Fork–join model (category Parallel computing)
    In parallel computing, the fork–join model is a way of setting up and executing parallel programs, such that execution branches off in parallel at designated...
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  • Exec (system call) (category Process (computing))
    In computing, exec is a functionality of an operating system that runs an executable file in the context of an already existing process, replacing the...
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    photography, particularly wearable computing, and high-dynamic-range imaging. Mann is considered the "Father of Wearable Computing" for early inventions and continuing...
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    The Mother of All Demos (category History of computing hardware)
    Augmentation Research Center. It was presented at the Association for Computing Machinery / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (ACM/IEEE)—Computer...
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    develop open-source software, open standards, and services for interactive computing across multiple programming languages. It was spun off from IPython in...
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  • environment at the same time, either locally on the same computing system (couch co-op), on different computing systems via a local area network, or via a wide...
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  • MLP (section Computing)
    record album My Little Pony, a toy originating in the 1980s which has also spawned multiple TV shows /mlp/, the My Little Pony board on 4chan Machine-learned...
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    Ampersand (section Computing)
    between elements. Dyalog APL uses ampersand similarly to Unix shells, spawning a separate green thread upon application of a function.[citation needed]...
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