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Workstations
Of or pertaining to any computer intended for personal use, but with a much faster processor and more memory than an ordinary personal computer.
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cache
Computer; Workstations
Small, fast, hardware-controlled memory that acts as a buffer between a processor and main memory. Cache contains a copy of the most recently used memory locations--addresses and contents--of ...
create method
Computer; Workstations
A method defined in the home interface and invoked by a client to create an enterprise bean.
SOAP
Computer; Workstations
Simple Object Access Protocol. A lightweight protocol intended for exchanging structured information in a decentralized, distributed environment. It defines, using XML technologies, an extensible ...
coherence
Computer; Workstations
In systems with multiple caches, the mechanism that ensures that all processors see the same image of memory at all times.
pipelining
Computer; Workstations
A hardware feature where operations are reduced to multiple stages, each of which takes (typically) one cycle to complete. The pipeline is filled when new operations can be issued each cycle. If ...
data race
Computer; Workstations
In multithreading, a situation where two or more threads simultaneously access a shared resource. The results are indeterminate depending on the order in which the threads accessed the resource. This ...
chaining
Computer; Workstations
A hardware feature of some pipeline architectures that allows the result of an operation to be used immediately as an operand for a second operation, simultaneously with the writing of the result to ...
