But its general purpose and reason for existence is ultimately defined by us at inception.
Earlier this month, Amazon dropped the price of some of its general purpose, compute- and memory-optimized EC2 machines.
With every passing year Intel seizes ever more computational territory for its general purpose microprocessors, leaving smaller pickings for the little guys who make math coprocessors, disk controllers and the like.
In fact, also because of its general purpose and collaborative nature, spontaneous networking has usually focused on simplifying the dispatching of packets at multi-hop distance, eventually aiming at improving the QoS with a per-application view [45].
A firm's enterprise strategy is its overarching strategic orientation, addressing questions regarding its general purpose and the specific nature of its relationships with stakeholders along two dimensions: (a) scope, which represents the range of stakeholders the organization attempts to serve, and (b) type, which represents the general motivation behind stakeholder initiatives.
Its general purpose is to determine the prevalence of risk factors for chronic diseases as well as the prevalence of some specific chronic conditions in a general population sample.
The rationale behind the use of MASON, among existing agent-based frameworks, lies in its general purpose and thus the ability to support various levels of social complexity, including different physics and agent logic.
We also found that a basic understanding of immunization, such as its general purpose and the need for several visits, is a key factor in the completion of all vaccinations for infants.
In this paper we discuss the pros and cons of L4-embedded for real-time systems design, focusing on the issues caused by the extreme speed optimisations it inherited from its general-purpose ancestors.
Given its general-purpose design, it can be extended to any location.
