In computer science, shared memory is memory that may be simultaneously accessed by multiple programs with an intent to provide communication among them...

primary benefits of virtual memory include freeing applications from having to manage a shared memory space, ability to share memory used by libraries between...

devised that increase the effectiveness of memory management. Virtual memory systems separate the memory addresses used by a process from actual physical...

physical memory of the system. For historical reasons, this technique is sometimes referred to as swapping. When combined with virtual memory, it is known...

are still shared, as under the time-sharing model, virtualization provides a higher level of security, dependent on the type of virtualization used, as...

approach using virtual memory Shared-variable approach using routines to access shared variables Object-based approach, ideally accessing shared data through...

A memory-mapped file is a segment of virtual memory that has been assigned a direct byte-for-byte correlation with some portion of a file or file-like...

references to memory, and translates the memory addresses being referenced, known as virtual memory addresses, into physical addresses in main memory. In modern...

In computer science, memory virtualization decouples volatile random access memory (RAM) resources from individual systems in the data center, and then...

addresses (actual locations in hardware memory) were the same. However, with the introduction of virtual memory most application programs do not deal directly...

using virtual memory to share the memory pages containing a shared library across different processes which are protected from each other via memory protection...

Researchers have also experimented with various means of implementing the virtual shared memory for this model.[citation needed] Many of these researchers proposed...

structure used by a virtual memory system in a computer to store mappings between virtual addresses and physical addresses. Virtual addresses are used...

of cores, and one L3 cache shared between all cores. A shared lowest-level cache, which is called before accessing memory, is usually referred to as a...

CPU-visible virtual addresses to physical addresses, the IOMMU maps device-visible virtual addresses (also called device addresses or memory mapped I/O...

evolves virtual memory for purposes of virtualization, new systems of memory overcommitment may be applied to manage memory sharing among multiple virtual machines...

to share their memory in a high-performance, low-latency manner. Virtual memory: giving an app the impression that it has contiguous working memory, isolating...

machine (DDM) is a historical virtual shared memory architecture where data is free to migrate through the machine. Shared memory machines are convenient for...

Morère, Pierre (October 9, 1992), "Linear Algebra Calculations on a virtual shared memory computer", Int Journal of High Speed Computing, vol. 7 (published...

general memory hierarchy structuring. Many other structures are useful. For example, a paging algorithm may be considered as a level for virtual memory when...

to share memory pages that have identical contents between multiple processes or virtualized guests. While not directly linked, Kernel-based Virtual Machine...

the computer's physical memory, or be flagged as being protected. Virtual memory makes it possible to have a linear virtual memory address space and to use...

is a multi-user, multiprocessing and virtual memory-based operating system. It is designed to support time-sharing, batch processing, transaction processing...

the computer memory can be transferred to storage; a common way of doing this is through a memory management technique called virtual memory. Modern computer...

without the virtual memory feature needed for virtualization, but added it in the August 1972 Advanced Function announcement. Virtualization has been featured...

to share its resources, such as memory and processor cycles, without requiring all services provided to use the same host name. The term virtual hosting...

lookaside buffer (TLB) is a memory cache that stores the recent translations of virtual memory addresses to physical memory addresses. It is used to reduce...

evolves virtual memory for purposes of virtualization, new systems of memory overcommitment may be applied to manage memory sharing among multiple virtual machines...

primary cache. At each node was 32 MB of memory for main cache. The system level architecture was shared virtual memory, which was physically distributed in...

resources on the system, such as devices and memory may be proxied or emulated in order to broker those shared services out to all the guests, which may...