In computer science and information technology, the terms data and information are frequently used as if they are synonyms, but in reality, they are quite different from each other. The most fundamental difference between the two is that data is the collection of raw facts and figures, while information is the processed data that have a meaning for a user. Read this article to find out more about "data" and "information" and how these two terms are different from each other. What is Data? Data is a collection of raw facts and figures that can be processed by any computing ... Read More

In the context of computer systems, a program or task in execution is called a process. In modern computers, several types of processes are used. The process of selecting one process from a bunch of processes and assigning it to the processor for execution is referred to as scheduling. The component of the system that accomplish this task is called a scheduler. There are two main types of schedulers, namely, Long−Term Scheduler and Short−Term Scheduler. In this article, we will discuss the important differences between long−term scheduler and short−term scheduler. But before that, let's start with some basics of long−term ... Read More

CRT and LCD are both display devices. CRT is an old technology whereas LCD is modern one. One major difference between CRT and LCD is in the technology used for image formation. The CRT display produces an image by using an electron beam, while LCD display produces an image on the screen using liquid crystal display. What is a CRT? CRT stands for Cathode Ray Tube. CRT displays produce an image on the screen by using a sharp beam of electrons that is highly focused to hit a phosphor screen present in front of the tube. The important components of ... Read More

Well, if you are looking to learn a programming language for your career growth and advancement there are many programming languages out there. There are hundreds of programming languages on the web which can be learned online itself. There is no particular programming language which will help you in your career growth.Programming languages are dynamic in nature and one has to adopt any new technology by learning new programming languages. Of course, there are some popular programming languages which will help you in terms of career growth.SQLSQL(Structured Programming Language) is a popular programming language in the present scenario.It has been ... Read More

What is Bus Arbitration?A device that initiates data transfers on the bus at any given time is called a bus master.In a computer system, there may be more than one bus master such as a DMA controller or a processor etc.These devices share the system bus and when a current master bus relinquishes another bus can acquire the control of the processor.Bus arbitration is a process by which next device becomes the bus controller by transferring bus mastership to another bus.Types of Bus ArbitrationThere are two types of bus arbitration namelyCentralised Arbitration.Distributed Arbitration.Only single bus arbiter performs the required arbitration ... Read More

The dining philosophers problem states that there are 5 philosophers sharing a circular table and they eat and think alternatively. There is a bowl of rice for each of the philosophers and 5 chopsticks. A philosopher needs both their right and left chopstick to eat. A hungry philosopher may only eat if there are both chopsticks available.Otherwise a philosopher puts down their chopstick and begin thinking again.The dining philosopher is a classic synchronization problem as it demonstrates a large class of concurrency control problems.Solution of Dining Philosophers ProblemA solution of the Dining Philosophers Problem is to use a semaphore to ... Read More

The producer consumer problem is a synchronization problem. There is a fixed size buffer and the producer produces items and enters them into the buffer. The consumer removes the items from the buffer and consumes them.A producer should not produce items into the buffer when the consumer is consuming an item from the buffer and vice versa. So the buffer should only be accessed by the producer or consumer at a time.The producer consumer problem can be resolved using semaphores. The codes for the producer and consumer process are given as follows −Producer ProcessThe code that defines the producer process ... Read More

The readers-writers problem relates to an object such as a file that is shared between multiple processes. Some of these processes are readers i.e. they only want to read the data from the object and some of the processes are writers i.e. they want to write into the object.The readers-writers problem is used to manage synchronization so that there are no problems with the object data. For example - If two readers access the object at the same time there is no problem. However if two writers or a reader and writer access the object at the same time, there ... Read More

Process synchronization in Linux involves providing a time slice for each process so that they get the required time for execution.The process can be created using the fork() command in Linux. The creating process is called the parent process and the created process is the child process. A child process can have only one parent but a parent process may have many children. Both the parent and child processes have the same memory image, open files and environment strings. However, they have distinct address spaces.A diagram that demonstrates the fork() command is given as follows −Orphan ProcessesThere are some processes ... Read More

A remote procedure call is an interprocess communication technique that is used for client-server based applications. It is also known as a subroutine call or a function call.A client has a request message that the RPC translates and sends to the server. This request may be a procedure or a function call to a remote server. When the server receives the request, it sends the required response back to the client. The client is blocked while the server is processing the call and only resumed execution after the server is finished.The sequence of events in a remote procedure call are ... Read More