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Ad hoc
Ad hoc is a Latin phrase meaning literally "for this".
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Address space
In computing, an address space defines a range of discrete addresses, each of which may correspond to a network host, peripheral device, disk sector, a memory cell or other logical or physical entity.
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Advanced Micro Devices
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is an American multinational semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California, that develops computer processors and related technologies for business and consumer markets.
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Alan Burns (professor)
Professor Alan Burns FREng FIET FBCS SMIEEE CEng is a professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of York, England.
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Andy Wellings
Andy J. Wellings is a professor in the Computer Science department at the University of York in northern England.
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Apache HTTP Server
The Apache HTTP Server, colloquially called Apache, is a free and open-source cross-platform web server, released under the terms of Apache License 2.0.
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Application programming interface
In computer programming, an application programming interface (API) is a set of subroutine definitions, protocols, and tools for building software.
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Apress
Apress Media LLC is a publisher of information technology books, based in New York City.
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Asynchronous I/O
In computer science, asynchronous I/O (also non-sequential I/O) is a form of input/output processing that permits other processing to continue before the transmission has finished.
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Ateji PX
Ateji PX is an object-oriented programming language extension for Java.
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Beginthread
The beginthread function creates a new thread of execution within the current process.
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Birkhäuser
Birkhäuser is a former Swiss publisher founded in 1879 by Emil Birkhäuser.
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Blocking (computing)
In computing, a process is an instance of a computer program that is being executed.
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C (programming language)
C (as in the letter ''c'') is a general-purpose, imperative computer programming language, supporting structured programming, lexical variable scope and recursion, while a static type system prevents many unintended operations.
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C++
C++ ("see plus plus") is a general-purpose programming language.
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Call stack
In computer science, a call stack is a stack data structure that stores information about the active subroutines of a computer program.
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Central processing unit
A central processing unit (CPU) is the electronic circuitry within a computer that carries out the instructions of a computer program by performing the basic arithmetic, logical, control and input/output (I/O) operations specified by the instructions.
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Cilk
Cilk, Cilk++ and Cilk Plus are general-purpose programming languages designed for multithreaded parallel computing.
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Command (computing)
In computing, a command is a directive to a computer program acting as an interpreter of some kind, in order to perform a specific task.
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Communicating sequential processes
In computer science, communicating sequential processes (CSP) is a formal language for describing patterns of interaction in concurrent systems.
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Compute kernel
In computing, a compute kernel is a routine compiled for high throughput accelerators (such as GPUs, DSPs or FPGAs), separate from (but used by) a main program.
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Computer
A computer is a device that can be instructed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations automatically via computer programming.
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Computer cluster
A computer cluster is a set of loosely or tightly connected computers that work together so that, in many respects, they can be viewed as a single system.
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Computer data storage
Computer data storage, often called storage or memory, is a technology consisting of computer components and recording media that are used to retain digital data.
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Computer multitasking
In computing, multitasking is the concurrent execution of multiple tasks (also known as processes) over a certain period of time.
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Computer programming
Computer programming is the process of building and designing an executable computer program for accomplishing a specific computing task.
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Computer science
Computer science deals with the theoretical foundations of information and computation, together with practical techniques for the implementation and application of these foundations.
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Concurrent computing
Concurrent computing is a form of computing in which several computations are executed during overlapping time periods—concurrently—instead of sequentially (one completing before the next starts).
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Context switch
In computing, a context switch is the process of storing the state of a process or of a thread, so that it can be restored and execution resumed from the same point later.
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Cooperative multitasking
Cooperative multitasking, also known as non-preemptive multitasking, is a style of computer multitasking in which the operating system never initiates a context switch from a running process to another process.
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Coroutine
Coroutines are computer-program components that generalize subroutines for non-preemptive multitasking, by allowing multiple entry points for suspending and resuming execution at certain locations.
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Coupling (computer programming)
In software engineering, coupling is the degree of interdependence between software modules; a measure of how closely connected two routines or modules are;ISO/IEC/IEEE 24765:2010 Systems and software engineering — Vocabulary the strength of the relationships between modules.
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CPython
CPython is the reference implementation of the Python programming language.
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Cray MTA-2
The Cray MTA-2 is a shared-memory MIMD computer marketed by Cray Inc. It is an unusual design based on the Tera computer designed by Tera Computer Company.
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Critical section
In concurrent programming, concurrent accesses to shared resources can lead to unexpected or erroneous behavior, so parts of the program where the shared resource is accessed are protected.
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Cross-platform
In computing, cross-platform software (also multi-platform software or platform-independent software) is computer software that is implemented on multiple computing platforms.
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CUDA
CUDA is a parallel computing platform and application programming interface (API) model created by Nvidia.
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Daniel Robbins (computer programmer)
Daniel Robbins is a computer programmer and consultant best known as the founder and former chief architect of the Gentoo Linux project.
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Data parallelism
Data parallelism is parallelization across multiple processors in parallel computing environments.
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Deadlock
In concurrent computing, a deadlock is a state in which each member of a group is waiting for some other member to take action, such as sending a message or more commonly releasing a lock.
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DragonFly BSD
DragonFly BSD is a free and open source Unix-like operating system created as a fork of FreeBSD 4.8.
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Electronic data processing
Electronic data processing (EDP) can refer to the use of automated methods to process commercial data.
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Embedded system
An embedded system is a computer system with a dedicated function within a larger mechanical or electrical system, often with real-time computing constraints.
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Event-driven programming
In computer programming, event-driven programming is a programming paradigm in which the flow of the program is determined by events such as user actions (mouse clicks, key presses), sensor outputs, or messages from other programs/threads.
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Fiber (computer science)
In computer science, a fiber is a particularly lightweight thread of execution.
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Fork (system call)
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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FreeBSD
FreeBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system descended from Research Unix via the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD).
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Functional programming
In computer science, functional programming is a programming paradigm—a style of building the structure and elements of computer programs—that treats computation as the evaluation of mathematical functions and avoids changing-state and mutable data.
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Glasgow Haskell Compiler
Glasgow Haskell Compiler, less commonly known as The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System or simply GHC, is an open source native code compiler for the functional programming language Haskell.
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Global interpreter lock
A global interpreter lock (GIL) is a mechanism used in computer-language interpreters to synchronize the execution of threads so that only one native thread can execute at a time.
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GNU C Library
The GNU C Library, commonly known as glibc, is the GNU Project's implementation of the C standard library.
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GNU Portable Threads
GNU Pth (Portable Threads) is a POSIX/ANSI-C based user space thread library for UNIX platforms that provides priority-based scheduling for multithreading applications.
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Grand Central Dispatch
Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) is a technology developed by Apple Inc. to optimize application support for systems with multi-core processors and other symmetric multiprocessing systems.
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Granularity
Granularity (also called graininess), the condition of existing in grains or granules, refers to the extent to which a material or system is composed of distinguishable pieces or grains.
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Green threads
In computer programming, green threads are threads that are scheduled by a runtime library or virtual machine (VM) instead of natively by the underlying operating system.
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Handle (computing)
In computer programming, a handle is an abstract reference to a resource.
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Hardware description language
In computer engineering, a hardware description language (HDL) is a specialized computer language used to describe the structure and behavior of electronic circuits, and most commonly, digital logic circuits.
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Haskell (programming language)
Haskell is a standardized, general-purpose compiled purely functional programming language, with non-strict semantics and strong static typing.
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Herb Sutter
Herb Sutter is a prominent C++ expert.
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High-level programming language
In computer science, a high-level programming language is a programming language with strong abstraction from the details of the computer.
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Hyper-threading
Hyper-threading (officially called Hyper-Threading Technology or HT Technology, and abbreviated as HTT or HT) is Intel's proprietary simultaneous multithreading (SMT) implementation used to improve parallelization of computations (doing multiple tasks at once) performed on x86 microprocessors.
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IBM
The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States, with operations in over 170 countries.
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Intel
Intel Corporation (stylized as intel) is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, in the Silicon Valley.
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Inter-process communication
In computer science, inter-process communication or interprocess communication (IPC) refers specifically to the mechanisms an operating system provides to allow the processes to manage shared data.
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IOS
iOS (formerly iPhone OS) is a mobile operating system created and developed by Apple Inc. exclusively for its hardware.
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Java (programming language)
Java is a general-purpose computer-programming language that is concurrent, class-based, object-oriented, and specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible.
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Java concurrency
The Java programming language and the Java virtual machine (JVM) have been designed to support concurrent programming, and all execution takes place in the context of threads.
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Jerry Saltzer
Jerome Howard "Jerry" Saltzer (born October 9, 1939) is a computer scientist.
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Kernel (operating system)
The kernel is a computer program that is the core of a computer's operating system, with complete control over everything in the system.
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Light-weight process
In computer operating systems, a light-weight process (LWP) is a means of achieving multitasking.
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Linux
Linux is a family of free and open-source software operating systems built around the Linux kernel.
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LinuxThreads
In the Linux operating system, LinuxThreads was a partial implementation of POSIX Threads introduced in 1996.
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Lock (computer science)
In computer science, a lock or mutex (from mutual exclusion) is a synchronization mechanism for enforcing limits on access to a resource in an environment where there are many threads of execution.
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Lock convoy
In computer science, a lock convoy is a performance problem that can occur when using locks for concurrency control in a multithreaded application.
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MacOS
macOS (previously and later) is a series of graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Apple Inc. since 2001.
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Manycore processor
Manycore processors are specialist multi-core processors designed for a high degree of parallel processing, containing a large number of simpler, independent processor cores (e.g. 10s, 100s, or 1,000s).
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Message passing
In computer science, message passing is a technique for invoking behavior (i.e., running a program) on a computer.
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Message Passing Interface
Message Passing Interface (MPI) is a standardized and portable message-passing standard designed by a group of researchers from academia and industry to function on a wide variety of parallel computing architectures.
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Monitor (synchronization)
In concurrent programming, a monitor is a synchronization construct that allows threads to have both mutual exclusion and the ability to wait (block) for a certain condition to become true.
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Multi-core processor
A multi-core processor is a single computing component with two or more independent processing units called cores, which read and execute program instructions.
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Multiprocessing
Multiprocessing is the use of two or more central processing units (CPUs) within a single computer system.
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Multithreading (computer architecture)
In computer architecture, multithreading is the ability of a central processing unit (CPU) or a single core in a multi-core processor to execute multiple processes or threads concurrently, appropriately supported by the operating system.
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Mutual exclusion
In computer science, mutual exclusion is a property of concurrency control, which is instituted for the purpose of preventing race conditions; it is the requirement that one thread of execution never enter its critical section at the same time that another concurrent thread of execution enters its own critical section.
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Native POSIX Thread Library
The Native POSIX Thread Library (NPTL) is an implementation of the POSIX Threads specification for the Linux operating system.
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NetBSD
NetBSD is a free and open source Unix-like operating system that descends from Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), a Research Unix derivative developed at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Netscape Portable Runtime
In computing, the Netscape Portable Runtime, or NSPR, a platform abstraction library, makes all operating systems it supports appear the same to (for example) Mozilla-style web-browsers.
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Non-blocking algorithm
In computer science, an algorithm is called non-blocking if failure or suspension of any thread cannot cause failure or suspension of another thread; for some operations, these algorithms provide a useful alternative to traditional blocking implementations.
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OpenCL
OpenCL (Open Computing Language) is a framework for writing programs that execute across heterogeneous platforms consisting of central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), digital signal processors (DSPs), field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and other processors or hardware accelerators.
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OpenMP
OpenMP (Open Multi-Processing) is an application programming interface (API) that supports multi-platform shared memory multiprocessing programming in C, C++, and Fortran, on most platforms, instruction set architectures and operating systems, including Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Linux, macOS, and Windows.
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Operating system
An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources and provides common services for computer programs.
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OS/2
OS/2 is a series of computer operating systems, initially created by Microsoft and IBM under the leadership of IBM software designer Ed Iacobucci.
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Parallel computing
Parallel computing is a type of computation in which many calculations or the execution of processes are carried out concurrently.
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PL/I
PL/I (Programming Language One, pronounced) is a procedural, imperative computer programming language designed for scientific, engineering, business and system programming uses.
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PM2
The Parallel Multithreaded Machine (PM2) is a software for parallel networking of computers.
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POSIX Threads
POSIX Threads, usually referred to as pthreads, is an execution model that exists independently from a language, as well as a parallel execution model.
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Preemption (computing)
In computing, preemption is the act of temporarily interrupting a task being carried out by a computer system, without requiring its cooperation, and with the intention of resuming the task at a later time.
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Priority inversion
In computer science, priority inversion is a problematic scenario in scheduling in which a high priority task is indirectly preempted by a lower priority task effectively "inverting" the relative priorities of the two tasks.
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Process (computing)
In computing, a process is an instance of a computer program that is being executed.
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Process control block
Process Control Block (PCB, also called Task Controlling Block, Entry of the Process Table, Task Struct, or Switchframe) is a data structure in the operating system kernel containing the information needed to manage the scheduling of a particular process.
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Process isolation
Process isolation is a set of different hardware and software technologies designed to protect each process from other processes on the operating system.
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Process.h
process.h is a C header file which contains function declarations and macros used in working with threads and processes.
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Processor register
In computer architecture, a processor register is a quickly accessible location available to a computer's central processing unit (CPU).
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Program counter
The program counter (PC), commonly called the instruction pointer (IP) in Intel x86 and Itanium microprocessors, and sometimes called the instruction address register (IAR), the instruction counter, or just part of the instruction sequencer, is a processor register that indicates where a computer is in its program sequence.
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Programmer
A programmer, developer, dev, coder, or software engineer is a person who creates computer software.
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Protothread
A protothread is a low-overhead mechanism for concurrent programming.
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Python (programming language)
Python is an interpreted high-level programming language for general-purpose programming.
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Race condition
A race condition or race hazard is the behavior of an electronics, software, or other system where the output is dependent on the sequence or timing of other uncontrollable events.
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Real-time computing
In computer science, real-time computing (RTC), or reactive computing describes hardware and software systems subject to a "real-time constraint", for example from event to system response.
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Register file
A register file is an array of processor registers in a central processing unit (CPU).
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Rendezvous problem
The rendezvous dilemma can be formulated in this way: If they both choose to wait, they will never meet.
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Ruby (programming language)
Ruby is a dynamic, interpreted, reflective, object-oriented, general-purpose programming language.
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Ruby MRI
Matz's Ruby Interpreter or Ruby MRI (also called CRuby) was the reference implementation of the Ruby programming language named after Ruby creator Yukihiro Matsumoto ("Matz").
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Run to completion scheduling
Run-to-completion scheduling is a scheduling model in which each task runs until it either finishes, or explicitly yields control back to the scheduler.
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Runtime system
A runtime system, also called run-time system, primarily implements portions of an execution model.
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Scheduler activations
Scheduler activations are a threading mechanism that, when implemented in an operating system's process scheduler, provide kernel-level thread functionality with user-level thread flexibility and performance.
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Scheduling (computing)
In computing, scheduling is the method by which work specified by some means is assigned to resources that complete the work.
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Semaphore (programming)
In computer science, a semaphore is a variable or abstract data type used to control access to a common resource by multiple processes in a concurrent system such as a multitasking operating system.
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Shared memory
In computer science, shared memory is memory that may be simultaneously accessed by multiple programs with an intent to provide communication among them or avoid redundant copies.
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Signal (IPC)
Signals are a limited form of inter-process communication (IPC), typically used in Unix, Unix-like, and other POSIX-compliant operating systems.
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Simultaneous multithreading
Simultaneous multithreading (SMT) is a technique for improving the overall efficiency of superscalar CPUs with hardware multithreading.
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Software bug
A software bug is an error, flaw, failure or fault in a computer program or system that causes it to produce an incorrect or unexpected result, or to behave in unintended ways.
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Solaris (operating system)
Solaris is a Unix operating system originally developed by Sun Microsystems.
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Spinlock
In software engineering, a spinlock is a lock which causes a thread trying to acquire it to simply wait in a loop ("spin") while repeatedly checking if the lock is available.
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Starvation (computer science)
In computer science, starvation is a problem encountered in concurrent computing where a process is perpetually denied necessary resources to process its work.
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State (computer science)
In information technology and computer science, a program is described as stateful if it is designed to remember preceding events or user interactions; the remembered information is called the state of the system.
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State Threads
The State Threads library is a small application library which provides a foundation for writing fast and highly scalable Internet applications (such as web servers, proxy servers, mail transfer agents, or any network-data-driven application) on Unix-like platforms.
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Subroutine
In computer programming, a subroutine is a sequence of program instructions that performs a specific task, packaged as a unit.
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SunOS
SunOS is a Unix-branded operating system developed by Sun Microsystems for their workstation and server computer systems.
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Symmetric multiprocessing
Symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) involves a multiprocessor computer hardware and software architecture where two or more identical processors are connected to a single, shared main memory, have full access to all input and output devices, and are controlled by a single operating system instance that treats all processors equally, reserving none for special purposes.
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Synchronization (computer science)
In computer science, synchronization refers to one of two distinct but related concepts: synchronization of processes, and synchronization of Data.
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System call
In computing, a system call is the programmatic way in which a computer program requests a service from the kernel of the operating system it is executed on.
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System resource
In computing, a system resource, or simply resource, is any physical or virtual component of limited availability within a computer system.
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Tcl
Tcl (pronounced "tickle" or tee cee ell) is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language.
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Thread pool
In computer programming, a thread pool is a software design pattern for achieving concurrency of execution in a computer program.
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Thread safety
Thread safety is a computer programming concept applicable to multi-threaded code.
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Thread-local storage
Thread-local storage (TLS) is a computer programming method that uses static or global memory local to a thread.
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Threading Building Blocks
Threading Building Blocks (TBB) is a C++ template library developed by Intel for parallel programming on multi-core processors.
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Tobin Titus
Tobin Titus is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft, where he works on performance and architecture for the Edge Web Platform team.
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Translation lookaside buffer
A translation lookaside buffer (TLB) is a memory cache that is used to reduce the time taken to access a user memory location.
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Unix
Unix (trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, development starting in the 1970s at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.
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User space
A modern computer operating system usually segregates virtual memory into kernel space and user space.
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Verilog
Verilog, standardized as IEEE 1364, is a hardware description language (HDL) used to model electronic systems.
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Victor A. Vyssotsky
Victor Alexander Vyssotsky (Виктор Александрович Высотский; February 26, 1931 - December 24, 2012 in Orleans, Massachusetts) son of the astronomers Alexander N. Vyssotsky (Russian) and Emma Vyssotsky (American) was a mathematician and computer scientist.
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Virtual machine
In computing, a virtual machine (VM) is an emulation of a computer system.
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Win32 Thread Information Block
In computing, the Win32 Thread Information Block (TIB) is a data structure in Win32 on x86 that stores information about the currently running thread.
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Windows 7
Windows 7 (codenamed Vienna, formerly Blackcomb) is a personal computer operating system developed by Microsoft.
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Windows API
The Windows API, informally WinAPI, is Microsoft's core set of application programming interfaces (APIs) available in the Microsoft Windows operating systems.
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Windows NT
Windows NT is a family of operating systems produced by Microsoft, the first version of which was released in July 1993.
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X86
x86 is a family of backward-compatible instruction set architectures based on the Intel 8086 CPU and its Intel 8088 variant.
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Yield (multithreading)
In computer science, yield is an action that occurs in a computer program during multithreading, of forcing a processor to relinquish control of the current running thread, and sending it to the end of the running queue, of the same scheduling priority.
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.NET Framework
.NET Framework (pronounced dot net) is a software framework developed by Microsoft that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_(computing)
