An application that provides virtual terminal services for a wide variety of remote systems. It allows a user at one site to interact with applications at other sites as if the user's terminal is local. The result is that referenced items are rarely in the machines physical memory and almost always must be fetched from secondary storage, usually a disk. Cache thrashing involves a similar situation between cache and physical memory. A regular division of a mesh into patches, or tiles.
Tiling is the most common way to do geometric decomposition .
Dividing the effort of a processor among many programs so they can run concurrently. Time sharing is usually managed by an operating system . See also space sharing . The product of the time taken to execute a program and the number of processors used to achieve that time, often used as a measure of goodness for parallel algorithms. See also Amdahl's Law , efficiency , Gustafson's Law , speedup .