• N-Step-SCAN (also referred to as N-Step LOOK) is a disk scheduling algorithm to determine the motion of the disk's arm and head in servicing read and...
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    also known as SCAN (including its variants, C-SCAN, LOOK, and C-LOOK) N-Step-SCAN SCAN of N records at a time FSCAN, N-Step-SCAN where N equals queue size...
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  • Elevator algorithm (redirect from C-SCAN)
    FSCAN LOOK C-LOOK N-Step-SCAN The following is an example of how to calculate average disk seek times for both the SCAN and C-SCAN algorithms. Example...
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    A computed tomography scan (CT scan; formerly called computed axial tomography scan or CAT scan) is a medical imaging technique used to obtain detailed...
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  • processed. When the scan ends, the arm is taken to the first queue entries and is started all over again. FSCAN along with N-Step-SCAN prevents "arm stickiness"...
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    the original steppers. Step-and-scan systems became widespread during the 1990s and essentially universal by the 2000s. Today, step-and-scan systems are...
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  • Port scanner (redirect from Port scan)
    identify network services running on a host and exploit vulnerabilities. A port scan or portscan is a process that sends client requests to a range of server...
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  • Prefix sum (redirect from Associative scan)
    In computer science, the prefix sum, cumulative sum, inclusive scan, or simply scan of a sequence of numbers x0, x1, x2, ... is a second sequence of numbers...
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    Graham's scan is a method of finding the convex hull of a finite set of points in the plane with time complexity O(n log n). It is named after Ronald...
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  • seek time than LOOK since the worst case seek time is nearly cut in half. SCAN - Elevator algorithm FSCAN N-Step-SCAN "Lecture 17 - Disk Scheduling"....
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