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...
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In computing and computer science, a processor or processing unit is an electrical component (digital circuit) that performs operations on an external...
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enable processes to share and exchange information, protect the resources of each process from other processes and enable synchronization among processes. To...
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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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Software design (redirect from Design process (computing))
Software design is the process of conceptualizing how a software system will work before it is implemented or modified. Software design also refers to...
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concurrently with other programs Child process, created by another process Parent process Process management (computing), an integral part of any modern-day...
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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...
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"Cost-efficient parallel processing of irregularly structured problems in cloud computing environments". Journal of Cluster Computing. 22 (3): 887–909. doi:10...
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Computing is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computing machinery. It includes the study and experimentation of algorithmic...
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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...
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General-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU, or less often GPGP) is the use of a graphics processing unit (GPU), which typically handles...
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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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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...
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Kill (command) (redirect from Kill process)
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...
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Context switch (redirect from Process switching latency)
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...
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Industrial process control (IPC) or simply process control is a system used in modern manufacturing which uses the principles of control theory and physical...
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Rate limiting (redirect from Throttling process (computing))
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...
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a larger body Process art, an art movement and/or genre. Process (computing), an instance of a computer program being executed Process (iOS application)...
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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...
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Confidential computing is a security and privacy-enhancing computational technique focused on protecting data in use. Confidential computing can be used...
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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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computing Fog robotics Green computing (environmentally sustainable computing) Grid computing In-memory database In-memory processing Internet of things IoT...
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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) (redirect from Process fork)
In computing, particularly in the context of the Unix operating system and its workalikes, fork is an operation whereby a process creates a copy of itself...
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over its indices. State (computer science) Task (computing) Context and Adaptivity in Pervasive Computing Environments: Links with Software Engineering and...
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(computing) Task parallelism Futures and promises POSIX Threads Fork (system call)#Clone Vahalia, Uresh (1996). "Threads and Lightweight Processes"....
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of information in quantum computing, the qubit (or "quantum bit"), serves the same function as the bit in classical computing. However, unlike a classical...
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Fork bomb (redirect from Wabbit (computing))
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...
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Toronto: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 1–12. arXiv:1704.04760. doi:10.1145/3079856.3080246. "Cloud Tensor Processing Units (TPUs)". Google Cloud...
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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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