Temporal isolation

Temporal isolation

In the terminology of Operating Systems (Computer Science),the capability of a set of processes running on the same node to runwithout interferences concerning their temporal constraints among eachother.

Specifically, there is temporal isolation among processeswhenever the ability for each process to respect its owntiming constraints (e.g. terminating a computation withina specified time, a.k.a. deadline) does not depend on thetemporal behavior of other unrelated processes runningon the same system, thus sharing with it a set of resources(e.g. the CPU or such devices as disk, network, etc...).

Operating Systems able to provide such guarantees to running processesare suitable for hosting real-time applications.

Other meanings

In Biology, see Reproductive isolation


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