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    In computer science, shared memory is memory that may be simultaneously accessed by multiple programs with an intent to provide communication among them...
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    primary benefits of virtual memory include freeing applications from having to manage a shared memory space, ability to share memory used by libraries between...
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    devised that increase the effectiveness of memory management. Virtual memory systems separate the memory addresses used by a process from actual physical...
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  • physical memory of the system. For historical reasons, this technique is sometimes referred to as swapping. When combined with virtual memory, it is known...
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  • are still shared, as under the time-sharing model, virtualization provides a higher level of security, dependent on the type of virtualization used, as...
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  • approach using virtual memory Shared-variable approach using routines to access shared variables Object-based approach, ideally accessing shared data through...
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  • 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...
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    references to memory, and translates the memory addresses being referenced, known as virtual memory addresses, into physical addresses in main memory. In modern...
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  • In computer science, memory virtualization decouples volatile random access memory (RAM) resources from individual systems in the data center, and then...
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    addresses (actual locations in hardware memory) were the same. However, with the introduction of virtual memory most application programs do not deal directly...
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  • using virtual memory to share the memory pages containing a shared library across different processes which are protected from each other via memory protection...
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  • Researchers have also experimented with various means of implementing the virtual shared memory for this model.[citation needed] Many of these researchers proposed...
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    Page table (category Virtual memory)
    structure used by a virtual memory system in a computer to store mappings between virtual addresses and physical addresses. Virtual addresses are used...
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  • CPU cache (redirect from Shared cache)
    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...
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    CPU-visible virtual addresses to physical addresses, the IOMMU maps device-visible virtual addresses (also called device addresses or memory mapped I/O...
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  • evolves virtual memory for purposes of virtualization, new systems of memory overcommitment may be applied to manage memory sharing among multiple virtual machines...
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    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...
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  • machine (DDM) is a historical virtual shared memory architecture where data is free to migrate through the machine. Shared memory machines are convenient for...
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  • Morère, Pierre (October 9, 1992), "Linear Algebra Calculations on a virtual shared memory computer", Int Journal of High Speed Computing, vol. 7 (published...
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    general memory hierarchy structuring. Many other structures are useful. For example, a paging algorithm may be considered as a level for virtual memory when...
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  • to share memory pages that have identical contents between multiple processes or virtualized guests. While not directly linked, Kernel-based Virtual Machine...
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  • 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...
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  • is a multi-user, multiprocessing and virtual memory-based operating system. It is designed to support time-sharing, batch processing, transaction processing...
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    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...
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  • without the virtual memory feature needed for virtualization, but added it in the August 1972 Advanced Function announcement. Virtualization has been featured...
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  • 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...
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  • Translation lookaside buffer (category Virtual memory)
    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...
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    evolves virtual memory for purposes of virtualization, new systems of memory overcommitment may be applied to manage memory sharing among multiple virtual machines...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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