Since the advent of operating system, the focus of the paper is aimed at better resource scheduling. Handling of multiple tasks at a single time by single processor is old story now. Today is the time ...

Most modern operating systems are designed to try to extract optimal performance from underlying hardware resources. This is achieved mainly by virtualization of the two main hardware resources: CPU ...

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Many market sectors, such as financial trading, defense, industry automation and gaming, long have had a need for low latencies and deterministic response time. Traditionally, custom-built hardware ...