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Idle (CPU)

Known as: Idle loop, Idle CPU time, Idle task 
A computer processor is described as idle when it is not being used by any program. Every program or task that runs on a computer system occupies a… 
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2015
2015
On the Convergence Analysis of Asynchronous Distributed Quadratic Programming via Dual Decomposition
In this paper, we analyze the convergence as well as the rate of convergence of asynchronous distributed quadratic programming… 
2012
2012
Backfilling under Two-tier Virtual Machines
The cloud computing paradigm attracts increasing amount of efforts to move high performance parallel applications to run in… 
2012
2012
RR-MAC: Receiver Reservation MAC Protocol with Time- Division for Wireless Sensor Networks
Wireless sensors networks are potentially employed in various fields such as defense system, target tracking, target monitoring… 
2011
2011
EXCHANGE: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF THE UNCERTAINTY REDUCTION EFFECT
Land use planning practices have been economically justified as an efficient means of producing and distributing valuable… 
Review
2007
Review
2007
Lack of abstraction considered harmful
Today’s programmers now have commodity parallel computing systems. Of them, we explore Sony’s Cell Broadband Engine Architecture… 
2006
2006
Harvesting Idle Windows CPU Cycles for Grid Computing
­ In this paper we demonstrate how to efficiently exploit the massive amount of idle CPU cycles from workstations and desktop PCs… 
2006
2006
Future execution: A prefetching mechanism that uses multiple cores to speed up single threads
This paper describes future execution (FE), a simple hardware-only technique to accelerate individual program threads running on… 
2006
2006
Effects of laser parameters on laser ignition in an internal combustion engine
Recent research in laser-induced ignition (LI) of air-fuel mixtures in internal combustion (IC) engines has shown there to be… 
2000
2000
Presenting and preserving travel data
The investment in travel data is substantial in terms of money, time and effort, but very often that investment is not fully… 
2000
2000
OPERATION CLUSTERING IN PROCESS PLANNING FOR RECONFIGURABLE MACHINING SYSTEM DESIGN
A systematic methodology for automatic machining operation clustering is an important component in Reconfigurable Machining… 
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