Parallel Computing terms starting with V

15 terms

  1. Validation is the process of performing a set of experiments that establish the efficacy and reliability of a technique or procedure or modification thereof.
  2. versioning Document and picture versioning creates a backup copy of a file whenever it is saved to the library.
  3. Vertical Cloud A cloud computing environment optimized for use in a particular vertical -- i.e., industry -- or application use case.
  4. Vertical Scaling See Scale Up.
  5. virtual Is a process by which multiple operating systems (servers) run on a single piece of hardware or physical server
  6. Virtual Machine Import/Export A feature offered by AWS that users can use to import virtual machine images from their existing environment to Amazon EC2 instances and export them back…
  7. Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) A term coined by Reuven Cohen, CEO and founder of Enomaly. The term describes a concept that is similar to, and derived from, the familiar concept of a…
  8. virtual private gateway (VPG) Virtual private gateway. The Amazon side of a VPN connection that maintains connectivity.
  9. Virtualization A feature that allows standard users to run applications that normally write to per-computer files and registry keys.
  10. virtualized Applications are decoupled from the underlying hardware. Multiple applications can run on one computer (virtualization a la VMWare) or multiple computers…
  11. visibility timeout The period of time that a message is invisible to the rest of your application after an application component gets it from the queue.
  12. VMM (Virtual Machine Monitor) A layer of software or firmware/microcode that sits between one or more operating systems and a server.
  13. VO (Virtual Organization) A virtual entity whose users and servers are geographically apart but share their resources collectively as a larger grid.
  14. VPN (Virtual Private Network) A secure network that is constructed by using public wires to connect nodes. For example, there are a number of systems that enable creation of networks…
  15. VPN connection Although VPN connection is a general term, we specifically mean the IPsec connection between a VPC and some other network, such as a corporate data…