NIC bonding

May 22, 2010 | Computer | 0 comments

Short for network interface card (NIC) bonding it is a term used to describe a way to increase available bandwidth. When bonded, two NICs appear to be the same physical device and they also have the same MAC address. Linux … Read the...

Bohrbug

Feb 5, 2010 | Computer | 0 comments

In computer programming, bohrbug is a classification of an unusual software bug that always produces a failure on retying the operation which caused the failure. The bohrbug was named after the Bohr atom because the bohrbug represents a solid and … Read the...

Riser card

Dec 10, 2009 | Computer | 0 comments

(1) An expansion card that is used to extend a slot for a chip or card in a fully loaded computer to make room to plug it in. It may also refer to a card that contains several slots used … Read the...

Choke packet

Oct 30, 2009 | Computer | 0 comments

A specialized packet that is used for flow control along a network. A router detects congestion by measuring the percentage of buffers in use, line utilization and average queue lengths. When it detects congestion, it sends choke packets across the … Read the...

Quiesce

Oct 2, 2009 | Computer | 0 comments

(1) To temporarily render inactive. This refers to many areas in computing such as hardware (to quiesce a device). The time taken to render the device inactive is called the quiesce time. The term quiesce is applied outside of hardware … Read the...

4-way server

Sep 24, 2009 | Computer | 0 comments

A 4-way server provides fast performance and scalability by supporting multiple CPUs. In this case it would support four processors. The multiple CPUs available to complete individual processes simultaneously. The computer architecture used in 4-way servers is called...