Processeur vectorielvignette|Processeur vectoriel d'un supercalculateur Cray-1. Un processeur vectoriel est un processeur possédant diverses fonctionnalités architecturales lui permettant d'améliorer l’exécution de programmes utilisant massivement des tableaux, des matrices, et qui permet de profiter du parallélisme inhérent à l'usage de ces derniers. Développé pour des applications scientifiques et exploité par les machines Cray et les supercalculateurs qui lui feront suite, ce type d'architecture a rapidement montré ses avantages pour des applications grand public (on peut citer la manipulation d'images).
Time–frequency analysisIn signal processing, time–frequency analysis comprises those techniques that study a signal in both the time and frequency domains simultaneously, using various time–frequency representations. Rather than viewing a 1-dimensional signal (a function, real or complex-valued, whose domain is the real line) and some transform (another function whose domain is the real line, obtained from the original via some transform), time–frequency analysis studies a two-dimensional signal – a function whose domain is the two-dimensional real plane, obtained from the signal via a time–frequency transform.
ThrashingEn informatique, le thrashing (littéralement « emballement ») est l'état d'un ordinateur avec mémoire virtuelle caractérisé par une fréquence des échanges de pages si élevée entre la mémoire RAM et le disque dur que ses performances s'en trouvent considérablement affectées et que très peu de ressources sont disponibles pour exécuter les applications des utilisateurs de l'ordinateur. Cette situation peut causer une dégradation très importante de la performance de l'ordinateur.
Dm-cachedm-cache is a component (more specifically, a target) of the Linux kernel's device mapper, which is a framework for mapping block devices onto higher-level virtual block devices. It allows one or more fast storage devices, such as flash-based solid-state drives (SSDs), to act as a cache for one or more slower storage devices such as hard disk drives (HDDs); this effectively creates hybrid volumes and provides secondary storage performance improvements.
Partitioned global address spaceIn computer science, partitioned global address space (PGAS) is a parallel programming model paradigm. PGAS is typified by communication operations involving a global memory address space abstraction that is logically partitioned, where a portion is local to each process, thread, or processing element. The novelty of PGAS is that the portions of the shared memory space may have an affinity for a particular process, thereby exploiting locality of reference in order to improve performance.
Comparison of X Window System desktop environmentsA desktop environment is a collection of software designed to give functionality and a certain look and feel to an operating system. This article applies to operating systems which are capable of running the X Window System, mostly Unix and Unix-like operating systems such as Linux, Minix, illumos, Solaris, AIX, FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Microsoft Windows is incapable of natively running X applications; however, third-party X servers like Cygwin/X, Exceed, or Xming are available.
