AI engineering glossary · Computing foundations
What is process?
Process: A running instance of a program, with its own memory space, resources and at least one thread of execution. Processes are isolated from one another by the operating system, so one crashing usually does not bring down others.
Process: an example
Opening two terminal windows and running python script.py in each creates two separate processes.
Related terms
More Computing foundations terms
- Process ID
- Public-key cryptography
- Race condition
- Random access memory
- Reference counting
- Register
- Reverse proxy
- Round-trip time
Where you learn it
Process is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.