An operating system is the essential software that's needed to run your computer's suite of software. Everything from video games to web browsing, basic word processing, and more is down thanks to ...

In just about every computer science textbook, a computer consists of just three blocks: the hardware, the operating system, and then all the (user-land) software that runs on the OS. In actual ...

More importantly, Director laid the foundation for automated computing, influencing the development of IBM’s OS/360 and UNIX.

The operating system isn’t going anywhere: something has to take charge of allocating hardware resources in response to the basic demands of the applications running on a server.

VAST said its AI Operating System is the product of nearly 10 years of engineering and is built on VAST’s Disaggregated Shared-Everything (DASE) parallel distributed system architecture, which the ...

What Is Parallel Processing, or Parallelization? In parallel processing, “different parts of a computation are executed simultaneously on separate processor hardware,” says Tao B. Schardl, a ...

Seventy years later, Director’s legacy remains undeniable. As the first attempt at an automated operating system, it revolutionized software design and set the stage for future innovations.