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anticiparallelism |
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anticiparallelism(ANTICIpatory PARALLELISM) Using idle machine cycles to perform utilitarian tasks in the background including the housekeeping done at boot time, disk defragging, file backup and other required tasks. Coined by Bob Metcalfe, industry guru and co-inventor of Ethernet, anticiparallelism requires hardware that is rock solid and software that is more fine grained, meaning that it would have to release control for the slightest amount of idle time to let other tasks take place. See grid computing. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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AppStream knows they can -- the company's recently patented deployment server technology is one of the first to demonstrate anticiparallelism or the preprocessing of anticipated computing tasks. |
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