Archive for October, 2008

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Launching a non-child process

Posted by Satya Das
October 17, 2008

When a process launches a child process, it becomes the parent of the child process. That is the default behaviour. In Vista however, a process can launch a process as a child of yet another process. This facility is used by User Account Control (UAC) when elevated processes are launched by AppInfo service to look [...]

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GPU and CPU – The odd couple plans a tryst

Posted by Satya Das
October 6, 2008

It is interesting to see how things are getting mixed up between Central Processing Unit (CPU), the heart of a modern computer and Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), the heart of video processing. GPUs are extremely fast at vector processing (such as matrix multiplication, cross product etc) because that is what graphics processing tasks demand and use.  [...]