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Operating-System Process

Definition
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An operating-system process is an executing program instance with its own virtual address space, resources, and one or more threads managed by the operating system.

Topics
Compute and Hardware Programming
Synonyms
Process
Plural
Processes
Related
Software Thread CPU Core Central Processing Unit (CPU)

Why it matters in GWAS

Pipelines often launch many processes across chromosomes or traits. Process-level parallelism affects memory usage, I/O pressure, and cluster scheduling behavior.

Example usage

"Downstream interpretation uses Operating-System Process to connect statistical signals with biological context."

Software Thread CPU Core Central Processing Unit (CPU) Compute Cluster Slurm
Related-term network

Click any node to open that term page.

Node order. The current term is first. Next come every page linked from Related terms, in the same top-to-bottom order as that list. Then new terms appear in two-hop layers: for each of those direct neighbors (in that same order), their related terms are appended if not already listed. A third pass does the same for two-hop nodes. The walk stops when a fixed maximum number of nodes is reached.

References

  • Kerrisk M. (2010). The Linux Programming Interface.
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