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What are the differences between memory coherence and cache coherence?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_coherence says: Memory coherence is an issue that affects the design of computer systems in which two or more processors or cores share a common area of memory.[1]...
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How to do achieve parallelism in a console application

I have a .net web application, let's say A and a .net console application, let's say B.In A, I have a queue with multiple jobs to be done by B.Once I select the jobs from A, a queue gets created. Each ...
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How to design a good generic tiled image downloader?

Tiled images Tiled images are large images that have been split in smaller square tiles. There are several tiled image formats, with different ways of organizing the tile files. A tiled image on ...
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Do algorithms depend on computer architectures?

I read somewhere (forgot which book it is) that algorithms are independent of computer architectures. Some even say algorithms are themselves computation (machines?)? On the other hand, books on ...
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Report generator windows service polling database for work

I'm building a new report generator for our in-house survey system. (No I can not use any off-the-shelf software. These are highly customized reports.) I want to use Topshelf to host the generator as ...
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