Few Nonstop Fundamentals - II

Multi Core Processors

Multi Core processors are a more recent evolution of CPU architectures where by sophisticated chip logic and compilers allow processing to be broken into threads of critical regions and submitted to multiple cores simultaneously.

Instead of processor needing to run at ever faster clock speeds, cross-section computing power can be aggregated across multiple processors to achieve the same effect.

TMF

TMF Means Transaction Monitor Facility.
Transaction monitor is a mechanism that  can ensure ACID properties  of a given database update or transactional all-or-none execution consistency respectively. In Nonstop Systems, this transaction monitor is achieve through TMF subsystem.

Its fully integrated with IPM and file system.