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91Phage group — The phage group (sometimes called the American Phage Group) was an informal network of biologists centered around Max Delbrück that contributed heavily to bacterial genetics and the origins of molecular biology in the mid 20th century. The phage… …
92Intel Threading Building Blocks — (also known as TBB) is the name of a C++ template library developed by Intel for writing software programs that take advantage of multi core processors. The library consists of data structures and algorithms that allow a programmer to avoid some… …
93Opportunistic Locking — In the SMB protocol, Opportunistic Locking (also referred to as OpLocks) is a file locking mechanism designed to improve performance by controlling caching of files on the client. Contrary to traditional locking, OpLocks are not used in order to… …
94Blocking (scheduling) — In a multitasking computer system, individual tasks, or threads of execution, must share the resources of the system. These resources might be:* the CPU * network * memory * diskor any other shared resource.When one task is using a resource, it… …
95Global Interpreter Lock — (abbr. GIL) is a mutual exclusion lock held by a programming language interpreter thread to avoid sharing code that is not thread safe with other threads. There is always one GIL for one interpreter process.Usage of a Global Interpreter Lock in a …
96C Sharp syntax — The correct title of this article is C# syntax. The substitution or omission of the # sign is because of technical restrictions. Main article: C Sharp (programming language) This article describes the syntax of the C# programming language. The… …
97Glenn Ricart — Occupation Computer scientist Known for ARPANET pioneer, OSPF Dr. Glenn Ricart is a computer scientist.[1] He started using one of the original Internet (ARPANET) nodes in 1969. He set up what was probably the first Internet Exc …
98Microsoft SQL Server — Developer(s) Microsoft Stable release SQL Server 2008 R2 (10.50.2500.0 Service Pack 1) / July 11, 2011; 4 months ago …
99Dryad (programming) — Dryad is an ongoing research project at Microsoft Research for a general purpose runtime for execution of data parallel applications. An application written for Dryad is modeled as a directed acyclic graph (DAG). The DAG defines the dataflow of… …
100SXM (transactional memory) — SXM is a software transactional memory system under development at Microsoft Research. The SXM API is exposed via managed code and is used to synchronize access to shared memory without using locks. It achieves mutual exclusion using database… …
