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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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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In Computer science, a funnel is a synchronization primitive used in kernel development to protect system resources. First used on Digital UNIX as a way...
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distributed applications (e.g., Grid computing and Cloud computing) ensures that database transactions are performed concurrently without violating the data integrity...
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Distributed systems, parallel computing, and high-performance computing Database systems, web applications, and cloud computing Concurrency is a broader concept...
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partially-ordered units Concurrent computing, the overlapping execution of multiple interacting computational tasks Concurrence (quantum computing), a measure used...
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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,...
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common goal for their work. The terms "concurrent computing", "parallel computing", and "distributed computing" have much overlap, and no clear distinction...
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In computing, preemption is the act of temporarily interrupting an executing task, with the intention of resuming it at a later time. This interrupt is...
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Sequential consistency is a consistency model used in the domain of concurrent computing (e.g. in distributed shared memory, distributed transactions, etc...
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In software engineering, concurrency patterns are those types of design patterns that deal with the multi-threaded programming paradigm. Examples of this...
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Actor model (redirect from Actors (concurrency))
science is a mathematical model of concurrent computation that treats an actor as the basic building block of concurrent computation. In response to a message...
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Per Brinch Hansen (section Concurrent programming)
scientist known for his work in operating systems, concurrent programming and parallel and distributed computing. Per Brinch Hansen was born in Frederiksberg...
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Computer multitasking (redirect from Concurrent processing)
In computing, multitasking is the concurrent execution of multiple tasks (also known as processes) over a certain period of time. New tasks can interrupt...
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architecture manage how the threads run, either concurrently on one core or in parallel on multiple cores. GPU computing environments like CUDA and OpenCL use the...
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Supercomputer (redirect from Super computing)
computing whereby a "super virtual computer" of many loosely coupled volunteer computing machines performs very large computing tasks. Grid computing...
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threads using a hash function. Concurrent hash tables represent a key concurrent data structure for use in concurrent computing which allow multiple threads...
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Interface for C, C++, and Fortran (distributed computing) SYCL Concurrent computing List of concurrent programming languages Parallel programming model...
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Join-pattern, generalization of Join-calculus Joins (concurrency library), a concurrent computing API from Microsoft Research Join Network Studio of NENU...
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Thread pool (category Concurrent computing)
pool maintains multiple threads waiting for tasks to be allocated for concurrent execution by the supervising program. By maintaining a pool of threads...
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Time-sharing (redirect from Time-shared computing)
model of computing in the 1970s represented a major technological shift in the history of computing. By allowing many users to interact concurrently with...
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Starvation (computer science) (redirect from Starvation (computing))
computer science, resource starvation is a problem encountered in concurrent computing where a process is perpetually denied necessary resources to process...
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Cache coherence (category Concurrent computing)
In computer architecture, cache coherence is the uniformity of shared resource data that is stored in multiple local caches. In a cache coherent system...
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"Structured concurrency". Retrieved 21 September 2019. Elizarov, Roman (11 July 2019). Structured concurrency (Video). Hydra Distributed computing conference...
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Fifth Generation Computer Systems (redirect from Fifth-generation computing)
development of concurrent logic programming. The term "fifth generation" was chosen to emphasize the system's advanced nature. In the history of computing hardware...
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Safety and liveness properties (redirect from Safety (Distributed Computing))
Properties of an execution of a computer program—particularly for concurrent and distributed systems—have long been formulated by giving safety properties...
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Data transfer object (category Concurrent computing)
In the field of programming a data transfer object (DTO) is an object that carries data between processes. The motivation for its use is that communication...
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FDR (software) (category Concurrent computing)
FDR (Failures-Divergences Refinement) and subsequently FDR2, FDR3 and FDR4 are refinement checking software tools, designed to check formal models expressed...
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Concurrent object-oriented programming is a programming paradigm which combines object-oriented programming (OOP) together with concurrency. While numerous...
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Computer cluster (redirect from Cluster computing)
and scheduled by software. The newest manifestation of cluster computing is cloud computing. The components of a cluster are usually connected to each other...
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