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Sun Microsystems is a multinational vendor of computers, computer software and hardware, and information technology services.
A quantitative measure of the density of representable numbers. For example, in a binary floating point format that has a precision of 53 significant bits, there are 253 representable numbers between any two adjacent powers of two (within the range of normal numbers). Do not confuse precision with accuracy, which expresses how closely one number approximates another.
Industry:Computer
The base number of any system of numbers. For example, 2 is the radix of a binary system, and 10 is the radix of the decimal system of numeration. SPARC workstations use radix-2 arithmetic; IEEE Std 754 is a radix-2 arithmetic standard.
Industry:Computer
A program or collection of programs that facilitate one or more activities frequently through a user interface. Applications typically manage, transform, and/or distribute data.
Industry:Computer
The applications that constitute an enterprise's existing system for handling companywide information. These applications provide an information infrastructure for an enterprise. An enterprise information system offers a well-defined set of services to its clients. These services are exposed to clients as local or remote interfaces or both. Examples of enterprise information systems include enterprise resource planning systems, mainframe transaction processing systems, and legacy database systems.
Industry:Computer
The application integration architecture from both a conceptual and actual perspective.
Industry:Computer
A program does not access all of its code or data at once with equal probability. Having recently accessed information in cache increases the probability of finding information locally without having to access memory. The principle of locality states that programs access a relatively small portion of their address space at any instant of time. There are two different types of locality: temporal and spatial.
Industry:Computer
The ability to perform an operation, act, or function with a computer resource (for example, run, modify or show). The means by which the ability is explicitly enabled or restricted in some way.
Industry:Computer
A principal native to the operating system on which the J2EE platform is executing.
Industry:Computer
System model where there are many processing elements, but they are designed to execute the same instruction at the same time; that is, one program counter is used to sequence through a single copy of the program. SIMD is especially useful for solving problems that have lots of data that needs to be updated on a wholesale basis; such as numerical calculations that are regular. Many scientific and engineering applications (such as, image processing, particle simulation, and finite element methods) naturally fall into the SIMD paradigm. See also array processing, pipeline, vector processing.
Industry:Computer
