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Glossary 

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community   The software entity that enables the sharing of resources such as memory.

configuration tree  The representation of system components in a diagram with a branching form.


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Galaxy   An implementation of soft partitions on OpenVMS.


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hard partition  A set of computing resources physically separated by hardware-enforced access barriers.


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instance   A running operating system.


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mutex   A resource semaphore.


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node   A point of connection in a configuration tree.

non-Galaxy system  A system that is not running Galaxy, or for which Galaxy has not been turned on.


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soft partition  A set of computing resources separated by software-controlled access barriers.

spinlock  Repeatedly checking the status of a bitlock.


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