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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

that runs as a background process, rather than being under the direct control of an interactive user. Traditionally, the process names of a daemon end with...

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

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

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...

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

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...

architecture with tens of thousands of threads. One approach is grid computing, where the processing power of many computers in distributed, diverse administrative...

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...

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...

An orphan process is a computer process whose parent process has finished or terminated, though it remains running itself. In a Unix-like operating system...

A process control block (PCB), also sometimes called a process descriptor, is a data structure used by a computer operating system to store all the information...

Reversible computing is any model of computation where the computational process, to some extent, is time-reversible. In a model of computation that uses...

and scheduled by software. The newest manifestation of cluster computing is cloud computing. The components of a cluster are usually connected to each other...

Confidential computing is a security and privacy-enhancing computational technique focused on protecting data in use. Confidential computing can be used...

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...

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

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