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  2. CPU-bound - Wikipedia

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    Finally, tasks required of modern computers often emphasize quite different components, so that resolving a bottleneck for one task may not affect the performance of another. For these reasons, upgrading a CPU does not always have a dramatic effect. The concept of being CPU-bound is now one of many factors considered in modern computing ...

  3. Redundancy (engineering) - Wikipedia

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    But if they are used in parallel and fail independently, they can provide high availability. Using redundant components can exponentially increase the availability of overall system. [ 19 ] For example if each of your hosts has only 50% availability, by using 10 of hosts in parallel, you can achieve 99.9023% availability.

  4. Voltage spike - Wikipedia

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    However some voltage spikes may be created by current sources. Voltage would increase as necessary so that a constant current will flow. Current from a discharging inductor is one example. For sensitive electronics, excessive current can flow if this voltage spike exceeds a material's breakdown voltage, or if it causes avalanche breakdown.

  5. Amdahl's law - Wikipedia

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    In another example, if the programmer optimizes a section that accounts for 99% of the execution time (i.e. of 0.99) with a speedup factor of 100 (i.e. of 100), the only reaches 50.

  6. Scheduling (computing) - Wikipedia

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    The short-term scheduler (also known as the CPU scheduler) decides which of the ready, in-memory processes is to be executed (allocated a CPU) after a clock interrupt, an I/O interrupt, an operating system call or another form of signal. Thus the short-term scheduler makes scheduling decisions much more frequently than the long-term or mid-term ...

  7. Load (computing) - Wikipedia

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    The reason CPU queue length did better is probably because when a host is heavily loaded, its CPU utilization is likely to be close to 100%, and it is unable to reflect the exact load level of the utilization. In contrast, CPU queue lengths can directly reflect the amount of load on a CPU.

  8. Poka-yoke - Wikipedia

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    Poka-yoke was originally baka-yoke, but as this means "fool-proofing" (or "idiot-proofing") the name was changed to the milder poka-yoke. [4] Poka-yoke is derived from poka o yokeru (ポカを避ける), a term in shogi that means avoiding an unthinkably bad move.

  9. Fail-safe - Wikipedia

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    In engineering, a fail-safe is a design feature or practice that, in the event of a failure of the design feature, inherently responds in a way that will cause minimal or no harm to other equipment, to the environment or to people.