throughput 1. General: Productivity of a machine, procedure, process, or system over a unit period, expressed in a figure-of-merit or a term meaningful in the given context, such as output per hour, cash turnover, number of orders shipped. 2. Computing: Measure of a computer systems overall performance in sending data through all its components, such as the processor, buses, storage devices. Throughput is more meaningful indicator of system performance than raw clock speed (now measured in gigahertzs) advertised by computer vendors. 3. Data communications: (1) Measure of the efficiency of a network expressed as the data transfer rate of useful and non-redundant information. It depends on factors such as bandwidth, line congestion, error correction, etc. (2) In ...
Posted on: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 05:34:26 +0000
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