In computing, a process is the instance of a computer program that is being executed by one or many threads. There are many different process models, some...

In computing and computer science, a processor or processing unit is an electrical component (digital circuit) that performs operations on an external...

parallel computing: bit-level, instruction-level, data, and task parallelism. Parallelism has long been employed in high-performance computing, but has...

enable processes to share and exchange information, protect the resources of each process from other processes and enable synchronization among processes. To...

Computing is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computing machinery. It includes the study and experimentation of algorithmic...

Software design is the process of conceptualizing how a software system will work before it is implemented or modified. Software design also refers to...

concurrently with other programs Child process, created by another process Parent process Process management (computing), an integral part of any modern-day...

"Cost-efficient parallel processing of irregularly structured problems in cloud computing environments". Journal of Cluster Computing. 22 (3): 887–909. doi:10...

In computing, a daemon is a program that runs as a background process, rather than being under the direct control of an interactive user. Customary convention...

General-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU, or less often GPGP) is the use of a graphics processing unit (GPU), which typically handles...

and not respond to them. Sometimes they may be added to a queue to be processed once the input rate reaches an acceptable level, but at peak times the...

A child process (CP) in computing is a process created by another process (the parent process). This technique pertains to multitasking operating systems...

In computing, the process identifier (a.k.a. process ID or PID) is a number used by most operating system kernels—such as those of Unix, macOS and Windows—to...

In computing, kill is a command that is used in several popular operating systems to send signals to running processes. In Unix and Unix-like operating...

computing, a parent process is a process that has created one or more child processes. In Unix-like operating systems, every process except process 0...

computing Fog robotics Green computing (environmentally sustainable computing) Grid computing In-memory database In-memory processing Internet of things IoT...

In computing, load balancing is the process of distributing a set of tasks over a set of resources (computing units), with the aim of making their overall...

a larger body Process art, an art movement and/or genre. Process (computing), an instance of a computer program being executed Process (iOS application)...

In computing, a context switch is the process of storing the state of a process or thread, so that it can be restored and resume execution at a later point...

Concurrent computing is a form of computing in which several computations are executed concurrently—during overlapping time periods—instead of sequentially—with...

(computing) Task parallelism Futures and promises POSIX Threads Fork (system call) § Clone Vahalia, Uresh (1996). "Threads and Lightweight Processes"...

Industrial process control (IPC) or simply process control is a system used in modern manufacturing which uses the principles of control theory and physical...

information in quantum computing, the qubit (or "quantum bit"), serves the same function as the bit in ordinary or "classical" computing. However, unlike a...

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...

Reversible computing is any model of computation where every step of the process is time-reversible. This means that, given the output of a computation...

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...

In computing, a fork bomb (also called rabbit virus) is a denial-of-service (DoS) attack wherein a process continually replicates itself to deplete available...

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...

over its indices. State (computer science) Task (computing) Context and Adaptivity in Pervasive Computing Environments: Links with Software Engineering and...

In computing, batch processing is the running of a software job in an automated and unattended way. A user schedules a job to run and then waits for a...