Memory barrier — Memory barrier, also known as membar or memory fence or fence instruction, is a type of barrier and a class of instruction which causes a central processing unit (CPU) or compiler to enforce an ordering constraint on memory operations issued… … Wikipedia
Abstraction (computer science) — In computer science, abstraction is the process by which data and programs are defined with a representation similar to its pictorial meaning as rooted in the more complex realm of human life and language with their higher need of summarization… … Wikipedia
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Memory-prediction framework — The memory prediction framework is a theory of brain function that was created by Jeff Hawkins and described in his 2004 book On Intelligence. This theory concerns the role of the mammalian neocortex and its associations with the hippocampus and… … Wikipedia
Memory virtualization — In computer science, memory virtualization decouples volatile random access memory (RAM) resources from individual systems in the data center, and then aggregates those resources into a virtualized memory pool available to any computer in the… … Wikipedia
Memory Technology Device — Flash EEPROM in a Router real MTD Not an MTD but a blo … Wikipedia
Operating System Abstraction Layer — An Operating System Abstraction Layer (OSAL) provides an application programming interface (API) to an abstract operating system making it easier and quicker to develop code for multiple software or hardware platforms. OS abstraction layers deal… … Wikipedia
Distributed operating system — A distributed operating system is the logical aggregation of operating system software over a collection of independent, networked, communicating, and spatially disseminated computational nodes.[1] Individual system nodes each hold a discrete… … Wikipedia
Page (computing) — In a context of computer virtual memory, a page, memory page, or virtual page is a fixed length block of main memory, that is contiguous in both physical memory addressing and virtual memory addressing. A page is usually a smallest unit of data… … Wikipedia
Data diffusion machine — is a historical virtual shared memory architecture where data is free to migrate through the machine. Shared memory machines are convenient for programming but do not scale beyond tens of processors. The Data Diffusion Machine (DDM) overcomes… … Wikipedia
Kernel (computer science) — In computer science, the kernel is the central component of most computer operating systems (OS). Its responsibilities include managing the system s resources (the communication between hardware and software components). As a basic component of… … Wikipedia