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Sharing of an already downloaded file in a peer-to-peer network
In computing, and specifically peer-to-peer file sharing, seeding is the uploading of already downloaded content for others to download from. A peer, a
Seeding_(computing)
Topics referred to by the same term
Sowing, planting seeds in a place or on an object Cloud seeding, manipulating cloud formations Seeding (computing), a concept in computing and peer-to-peer
Seeding
Computer hardware technology that uses quantum mechanics
information in quantum computing, the qubit (or "quantum bit"), serves the same function as the bit in ordinary or "classical" computing. However, unlike a
Quantum_computing
Topics referred to by the same term
extensible general-purpose programming language Seeding (computing), a practice within peer-to-peer file sharing Seed (BitTorrent), a peer that has a complete
Seed_(disambiguation)
1992 video game
5-6 Dark Seed Manual (1993) The Creation of Dark Seed. Cyberdreams. p. 6-7 Sears, David (November 1992). "Dark Seed". Compute!. No. 146. COMPUTE Publications
Dark_Seed_(video_game)
Statistics used for ranking and seeding football teams
rank national teams, for seeding in the UEFA Euro qualifying and finals tournaments. UEFA decided after 2017, instead to seed national teams based on the:
UEFA_coefficient
Peer-to-peer file sharing protocol
"HTTP Seeding – BitTorrent Enhancement Proposal № 17". Archived from the original on 13 December 2013. Retrieved 17 February 2012. "HTTP/FTP Seeding for
BitTorrent
Text-to-video model developed by ByteDance
'immediately shut down' Seedance AI video app". CNBC. Yang, Zeyi (March 5, 2026). "ByteDance's AI Ambitions Are Being Hampered by Compute Restraints and Copyright
Seedance_2.0
Privacy-enhancing computing technique
Confidential computing is a security and privacy-enhancing computational technique focused on protecting data in use. Confidential computing can be used
Confidential_computing
engaged in the development of quantum computing, quantum communication and quantum sensing. Quantum computing and communication are two sub-fields of
List of companies involved in quantum computing, communication or sensing
List_of_companies_involved_in_quantum_computing,_communication_or_sensing
Linux Foundation project
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is a subsidiary of the Linux Foundation founded in 2015 to support cloud-native computing. It was announced
Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Cloud_Native_Computing_Foundation
Quantum Computing company
Atom Computing Inc. is a quantum computing company headquartered in Berkeley, California with a commercial operations facility in Boulder, Colorado. The
Atom_Computing
Raster graphics editor
March 6, 2011. Sears, David (November 1992). "Dark Seed". Compute!. Vol. 14, no. 10 #146. COMPUTE Publications International. pp. 100–102, 104, 106, 108
Deluxe_Paint
Topics referred to by the same term
that is executed in a vectorized loop, for example in general-purpose computing on graphics processing units KERNAL, the Commodore operating system Kernel
Kernel
February 12, 1983 872 Limiting the tax credit to taxes actually paid in computing sales tax on manufactured articles February 16, 1983 873 Abolishing the
List of executive orders by Ferdinand Marcos
List_of_executive_orders_by_Ferdinand_Marcos
Programming function applied recursively to its previous result
then begin with a first seed, compute whether the list continues or ends, and in case of a nonempty list, prepend the computed value to the recursive call
Anamorphism
Numerical calculations carrying along derivatives
and accuracy in computing first and higher order derivatives, auto-differentiation finds diverse applications in scientific computing and mathematics
Automatic_differentiation
Volunteer computing projects are a type of distributed computing where volunteers donate computing time to specific causes. The donated computing power comes
List of volunteer computing projects
List_of_volunteer_computing_projects
Quantum computing company based in Espoo, Finland
IQM Quantum Computers is a Finnish quantum computing hardware and software company headquartered in Espoo, Finland. The company develops and commercializes
IQM_Quantum_Computers
Algorithms for calculating square roots
as programs to be executed on a digital electronic computer or other computing device. Algorithms may take into account convergence (how many iterations
Square_root_algorithms
Cloud computing platform by IBM
Serverless computing offering, that is built using open source from the Apache OpenWhisk incubator project largely credited to IBM for seeding. This system
IBM_Cloud
US information technology company
IonQ, Inc. is an American quantum computing hardware and software company headquartered in College Park, Maryland. The company develops general-purpose
IonQ
Concept in artificial intelligence
develop new hardware such as chips, in order to improve its efficiency and computing power. In 2023, the Voyager agent learned to accomplish diverse tasks
Recursive_self-improvement
Topics referred to by the same term
Accelerators (comics), a comic book created by Ronnie Porto and Gavin Smith Seed- or startup-accelerator, an organization that offers advice and resources
Accelerator
Organized collection of data in computing
In computing, a database is an organized collection of data or a type of data store based on the use of a database management system (DBMS), the software
Database
Computing concept
In computing, entropy is the randomness collected by an operating system or application for use in cryptography or other uses that require random data
Entropy_(computing)
American businessman (born 1964)
president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes, he
Jeff_Bezos
technical high school, played a leading role in amateur astronomical computing and was an active founding member of Kumamoto Civil Astronomical Observatory
Meanings of minor-planet names: 8001–9000
Meanings_of_minor-planet_names:_8001–9000
Methods that imitate, replicate or use natural processes
artificial immune systems, fractal geometry, artificial life, DNA computing, and quantum computing, among others. However, the field is more related to biological
Natural_computing
Mapping arbitrary data to fixed-size values
keys are being hashed repeatedly, and the hash function is costly, then computing time can be saved by precomputing the hash codes and storing them with
Hash_function
Canadian physicist and entrepreneur
Quantum Computing and continued with Achim Kempf as his PhD supervisor. He presented papers as a Guest Speaker at NASA's 2018 Adiabatic Quantum Computing conference
Guillaume_Verdon
Topics referred to by the same term
in the US-Iraq war Embedded (Mark Seymour album), 2004 Embedded (Meathook Seed album), 1993 "Embedded", a song by Job for a Cowboy from the 2007 album Genesis
Embedded
Web browser software
Blog". electronjs.org. 7 February 2017. Retrieved 2018-07-27. "All about seeding". beakerbrowser.com. Archived from the original on July 31, 2019. Retrieved
Beaker_(web_browser)
English computer scientist (1912–1954)
the Automatic Computing Engine, one of the first designs for a stored-program computer. In 1948, Turing joined Max Newman's Computing Machine Laboratory
Alan_Turing
Topics referred to by the same term
flowering plants Coffea arabica, the species first cultivated Coffee bean, the seed ground to make coffee COFFEE (Cinema 4D), a scripting language .coffee, filename
Coffee_(disambiguation)
Self-starting process that is supposed to proceed without external input
proceeded without external help from manually entered instructions. As a computing term, bootstrap has been used since at least 1953. Bootstrapping can also
Bootstrapping
Nazarbayev University de novo molecules generated by ML models SMILES, computed properties artificially generated "cheML.io". 2,800,000 ChemDB chemical
List_of_chemical_databases
Research institute in Berkeley, California
for the Theory of Computing". cacm.acm.org. Retrieved 2019-09-14. "Programs & Activities". Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing. Retrieved 28 October
Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing
Simons_Institute_for_the_Theory_of_Computing
1977 film by Donald Cammell
November 9, 2023. "Demon Seed". Variety: 18. March 30, 1977. Siskel, Gene (April 5, 1977). "'Demon Seed' just doesn't compute". Chicago Tribune. Section
Demon_Seed
Free online crowdsourced encyclopedia
have been cited 92,300 times in scholarly journals, from which cloud computing was the most cited page. Wikipedia has spawned several sister projects
Wikipedia
Open-source software for large language model inference
Originally developed at the University of California, Berkeley's Sky Computing Lab, the project is centered on PagedAttention, a memory-management method
VLLM
UK Parliament constituency (since 1983)
"'Makerfield', June 1983 up to May 1997". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Retrieved 12 March 2016. A county constituency (for the purposes
Makerfield_(constituency)
Video-based social networking service
Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 1–14. doi:10.1145/3290605.3300668. ISBN 9781450359702
Convoz
One who benefits from others' effort without giving in return
destroyed (settings enable the torrent to stop seeding at a certain share ratio, or after X hours have passed seeding). The so-called bad leechers are those running
Leecher_(computing)
American psychologist and computer scientist (1915-1990)
development and general computing history. He is particularly remembered for being one of the first to foresee modern-style interactive computing and its application
J._C._R._Licklider
and data structures used for processing text strings in programming and computing. strollology The science of strolling. promenadology stromatology The
List of words with the suffix -ology
List_of_words_with_the_suffix_-ology
Topics referred to by the same term
long-running transactions (on distributed computing) Simple API for Grid Applications (SAGA), a standard for distributed computing from the Open Grid Forum Sexuality
Saga_(disambiguation)
Dynamic programming language
Julia Computing, Inc. by Viral B. Shah, Deepak Vinchhi, Alan Edelman, Jeff Bezanson, Stefan Karpinski and Keno Fischer. In June 2017, Julia Computing raised
Julia_(programming_language)
first patent for digital radiography in 1973. The first commercial CR (Computed Radiology) solution was offered by Fujifilm in Japan in 1983 under the
History of radiation protection
History_of_radiation_protection
proboscidean may have acted as a seed disperser and its extinction may have increased the extinction risk of plants whose seeds it used to disperse. Cruz, Faurby
2025_in_paleomammalogy
purpura purpurate, purpureal put- prune, reckon Latin putāre amputation, compute, dispute, impute, putative, reputation py- pus Greek πύον (púon), (pyeîn)
List of Greek and Latin roots in English/P–Z
List_of_Greek_and_Latin_roots_in_English/P–Z
Two-dimensional cellular automaton
combination. Patterns may be constructed to emulate logical gates and replicate computing components such as information storage, logical instruction sets and program
Conway's_Game_of_Life
Swiss computing services company
legally registered as Hive Computing Services SA) is a Swiss technology company specializing in distributed cloud storage and computing services. Founded in
Hivenet
Topics referred to by the same term
a vital sign Roundup Ready, Monsanto line of genetically modified crop seeds Resource record, in the Domain Name System Round-robin scheduling, an algorithm
RR
Type of decentralized and distributed network architecture
Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed computing or networking architecture in which participants share part of their own resources
Peer-to-peer
Quantum Computing Company
Centre (LRZ) high-performance computing infrastructure. The initiative forms part of Germany’s broader national quantum-computing programme, in which neutral-atom
Planqc
System to help searching for information
In computing, a search engine is an information retrieval software system designed to help find information stored on one or more computer systems. Search
Search_engine_(computing)
Social media platform owned by Meta
engage us". Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. pp. 965–974. doi:10.1145/2556288.2557403. ISBN 978-1-4503-2473-1
University of Texas at Austin. His primary area of research is quantum computing and computational complexity theory. Ernst Abbe (1840–1905): German physicist
List of atheists in science and technology
List_of_atheists_in_science_and_technology
Information Technology For Women
goals. Among them are: supporting changes in K-12 computing curriculum, empowering women in computing to increase their visibility, working with high school
National Center for Women & Information Technology
National_Center_for_Women_&_Information_Technology
IEEE Cloud Computing is a global initiative launched by IEEE to promote cloud computing, big data and related technologies, and to provide expertise and
IEEE_Cloud_Computing
Initiative to rethink the concept of computing
Task Force on Rebooting Computing (TFRC), housed within IEEE Computer Society, is the new home for the IEEE Rebooting Computing Initiative. Founded in
IEEE_Rebooting_Computing
Computer scientist and researcher
Intelligence at a valuation of $5.1bn. Silver was awarded the 2019 ACM Prize in Computing for breakthrough advances in computer game-playing. In 2021, Silver was
David Silver (computer scientist)
David_Silver_(computer_scientist)
orbital theory, i. e. the elaboration of the molecular orbital method of computing the structure of molecules. Dr. Mulliken received the Nobel Prize for
List_of_agnostics
Ssiat (씨앗) A language using Hangul (Korean). The name Ssiat (씨앗) means "seed" in Korean. Aheui [ko] (아희) An esoteric programming language similar to Befunge
Non-English-based programming languages
Non-English-based_programming_languages
resistance – Taber method] ISO/IEC TR 3445:2022 Information technology – Cloud computing – Audit of cloud services [Originally planned ISO 3445 was Modular coordination
List of ISO standards 3000–4999
List_of_ISO_standards_3000–4999
Warnock-Juteau, T. M.; Ryan, M. J.; Patterson, R. T.; Mallon, J. C. (2024). "Computed tomographic investigation of a hatchling skull reveals ontogenetic changes
2024 in archosaur paleontology
2024_in_archosaur_paleontology
Software company
needed] and supports both a self-hosted web service, and a managed cloud computing service. As of December 2025, the n8n company's platform was being reported
N8n
Video game series
role-playing video games in the science fantasy genre developed by New World Computing, which in 1996 became a subsidiary of The 3DO Company. The original Might
Might_and_Magic
Topics referred to by the same term
Communications Systems's Fibre Channel switches Fabric computing, a consolidated high-performance computing platform Switched fabric, a computer network topology
Fabric_(disambiguation)
Busicom 141-PF desktop calculator, released in March 1971, was the first computing machine to use a microprocessor, the 4-bit Intel 4004 (co-designed by
History of science and technology in Japan
History_of_science_and_technology_in_Japan
2002 novel by Michael Crichton
the computing/scientific community, such as artificial life, emergence (and by extension, complexity), genetic algorithms, and agent-based computing. Fields
Prey_(novel)
Class of algorithms used for computing distance-related functions
have well-defined error properties which make them useful for scientific computing. In the computer vision domain, the JFA has inspired new belief propagation
Jump_flooding_algorithm
Type of plane partition
"Voronoi Diagrams – A Survey of a Fundamental Geometric Data Structure". ACM Computing Surveys. 23 (3): 345–405. doi:10.1145/116873.116880. S2CID 4613674. Okabe
Voronoi_diagram
Late Miocene American Badger (Taxidiinae) Utilizing High-Resolution X-Ray Computed Tomography: Late Miocene American Badger". Palaeontology. 49 (5): 1002
List of organisms with names derived from Indigenous languages of the Americas
List_of_organisms_with_names_derived_from_Indigenous_languages_of_the_Americas
British government recognitions
FRS. Director, Cambridge Microsoft Research Laboratory. For services to computing. Christopher John Nicholls. Headteacher, Moulsham High School, Chelmsford
2001_Birthday_Honours
September 2022 Law - U.S. 714 The History of Computing Doron Swade 25 August 2022 History of Science/Computing/Mathematics/Engineering 715 Ivan Pavlov Daniel
List of Very Short Introductions books
List_of_Very_Short_Introductions_books
Set of cryptographic algorithms by the NSA
(PDF) on September 8, 2022. Retrieved 2024-06-10. "CNSA Suite and Quantum Computing FAQ" (PDF). cryptome.org. January 2016. Retrieved 24 July 2023. "Use of
Commercial National Security Algorithm Suite
Commercial_National_Security_Algorithm_Suite
project with the name Burbn. 2010 March 5 Funding Systrom closes a US$500,000 seed funding round with Baseline Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz while working
Timeline_of_Instagram
Network intelligence company
recognized by Battery Ventures as one of the 50 Highest-Rated Private Cloud-Computing Companies to Work For, with data specifically provided from Glassdoor
ThousandEyes
technology, and its introduction would form the backbone of communication and computing technology in Canada for the next 140 years. In 1856, the first underwater
Technological and industrial history of Canada
Technological_and_industrial_history_of_Canada
(1969) Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) The Questor Tapes (1974) Demon Seed (1977) Blade Runner (1982) Tron (1982) WarGames (1983) Brainstorm (1983)
List_of_films_about_computers
Topics referred to by the same term
textiles company Linter, a machine for removing the short fibers from cotton seeds after ginning. Dmitri Linter (born 1973), Estonian political activist Juliana
Linter
Indian cable TV service operator
Ministry of Communications (India) Centre for Development of Advanced Computing Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Telecom Disputes Settlement and
Hathway
distance of seed dispersal by extant and extinct mammalian frugivores and on the impact of the extinction of Pleistocene megafauna on seed dispersal is
2018_in_paleomammalogy
Algorithm for public-key cryptography
fourteenth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing - STOC '82. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 365–377. doi:10.1145/800070
RSA_cryptosystem
Ancient Egyptian tomb
Grilletto, Renato; Gandini, Giovanni (2005). "Kha and Merit: Multidetector Computed Tomography and 3D Reconstructions of Two Mummies from the Egyptian Museum
Tomb_of_Kha_and_Merit
Topics referred to by the same term
railway station, Essex, England Seed Science and Technology, a journal about seed science published by the International Seed Testing Association SST (typeface)
SST
Topics referred to by the same term
telecommunications Memory bank, a logical unit of storage Blood bank Gene bank Ova bank Seed bank Sperm bank Bank (geography), a raised portion of seabed or sloping ground
Bank_(disambiguation)
Subdivision of the Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery's Council on Women in Computing (ACM-W) supports, celebrates, and advocates internationally for the full engagement
ACM-W
Private university in Boston, Massachusetts, US
created the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences, which is an interdisciplinary academic unit that will train students in computing and enable them to combine
Boston_University
American company
continuous solar exposure and radiative cooling, could support large-scale computing in space. In December 2025, Starcloud became the first company to operate
Starcloud
Topics referred to by the same term
Social Ecology, an academic unit of the University of California, Irvine Seed Savers Exchange, a seedbank Seven Seas Entertainment, a North American publisher
SSE
Ongoing armed conflict in West Asia
air systems. Fundamental web infrastructure including S3 storage, EC2 compute and DynamoDB databases suffered complete outages in early March. Iran shut
2026_Iran_war
Interdisciplinary field
Medical image computing (MIC) is the use of computational and mathematical methods for solving problems pertaining to medical images and their use for
Medical_image_computing
Topics referred to by the same term
horse Pole vault, an athletics event Svalbard Global Seed Vault (or Doomsday Vault), a secure seed bank in Norway Vault Beach (also Bow Beach), Cornwall
Vault
Conjecture on zeros of the zeta function
"Riemann Zeta Function Zeros", MathWorld: "ZetaGrid is a distributed computing project attempting to calculate as many zeros as possible. It had reached
Riemann_hypothesis
Mexican association football league
advances and is seeded 8th in the quarterfinals. For the remaining rounds, the clubs are paired according to seeding, with the highest-seeded club playing
Liga_MX
Wes Moore's tenure as the 63rd Governor of Maryland
Pamela (January 14, 2025). "Moore wants to make a 'big bet' on quantum computing industry". The Baltimore Banner. Retrieved January 14, 2025. Janesch,
Governorship_of_Wes_Moore
Diagnostic test before surgery
of 20 patients in the United States, the poppy seed test was significantly more accurate than computed tomography. In these two series, respectively,
Poppy_seed_test
SEEDING COMPUTING
SEEDING COMPUTING
Surname or Lastname
English and Irish
English and Irish : unexplained; most probably a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place somewhere in South Wales or southern England. This name was established in County Meath, Ireland, soon after the Anglo-Norman invasion of the 12th century.Dutch : unexplained.Probably a respelling of German Tiling, a patronymic form of Thiel.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : unexplained.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from either of two places, in West Yorkshire near Keighley and in North Yorkshire near Northallerton. Both are named with a river name, derived from the Old English word lēoma ‘gleam’, ‘sparkle’.
Surname or Lastname
English (East Anglia)
English (East Anglia) : perhaps a variant of Pa(y)ling, a variant of Palin.Possibly also an Americanized form of German Bühling, a habitational name from any of several places so named.
Boy/Male
English
Son of Reed.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : of uncertain origin; perhaps a variant of Weldon.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from a place in West Yorkshire, near Ripon, also known as Skelden. It is so called from the river name Skell (Old Norse Skjallr ‘resounding’) + Old English denu ‘valley’.
Boy/Male
English
Son of Reed.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Reading.German and Dutch : patronymic from any of the Germanic personal names with the first element rÄd ‘counsel’, ‘advice’.
Boy/Male
American, Anglo, British, English
Son of the Red-haired
Surname or Lastname
Irish
Irish : see Keeley.English : nickname from Middle English keling ‘young codfish’.Americanized spelling of German Kühling, a patronymic from Colo, probably a short form of an old personal name meaning ‘helmet’.
Boy/Male
American, British, English
From the Split Meadow
Boy/Male
American, Anglo, British, English
Son of the Red-haired
Boy/Male
British, English
Son of the Red-haired
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Balding.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : patronymic from Dear 1.Americanized form of German Thüring, regional name for someone from Thuringia.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : unexplained.Swedish : variant of Sellin.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from the county seat of Berkshire, which gets its name from Old English Rēadingas ‘people of Rēad(a)’, a byname meaning ‘red’.English : topographic name for someone who lived in a clearing, an unattested Old English ryding.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from a medieval personal name, originally an Old English patronymic from Swēt(a) (see Sweet).English : from Middle English sweting ‘darling’, ‘sweetheart’, hence a nickname for a popular and attractive person, or for somebody who habitually addressed people with the term.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Reading.Dutch and German : variant of Redding 2.
SEEDING COMPUTING
SEEDING COMPUTING
Biblical
the two books; the two scribes
Girl/Female
Tamil
Chithramani | சிதà¯à®°à®¾à®®à®¨à¯€
Name of a Raga
Female
Egyptian
, the wife of Petemet.
Boy/Male
Australian, Greek
Vigilant Guardian; Shining
Male
Hebrew
(×ֲבִיש×ָלï‹×) Hebrew name ABIYSHALOWM means "father of peace." In the bible, this is the name of the father-in-law of Rehoboam. Also spelled Avishalom and Avshalom.Â
Boy/Male
Muslim
9th month of the islamic calendar
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Marathi
Happy; Joyful; Glad
Girl/Female
Hindu
Mother
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
King Anamitra's Wife
Girl/Female
Indian
Softened
SEEDING COMPUTING
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a.
Of or pertaining to the act of reading; used in reading.
a.
Seeking one's own interest or happiness; selfish.
n.
Study of books; literary scholarship; as, a man of extensive reading.
n.
A congregation; a collection of people; a convention; as, a large meeting; an harmonius meeting.
n.
Sympathy; a like feeling.
a.
Addicted to reading; as, a reading community.
prep.
During; as, pending the trail.
n.
A junction, crossing, or union; as, the meeting of the roads or of two rivers.
n.
Maintenance; support; provision; feed; as, the cattle have good keeping.
n.
A coming together; an assembling; as, the meeting of Congress.
a.
Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling heart.
n.
That which stands at the head; title; as, the heading of a paper.
n.
A small convex molding; a reed (see Illust. (i) of Molding); one of several set close together to decorate a surface; also, decoration by means of reedings; -- the reverse of fluting.
a.
Engaged in, or given to, seeing sights; eager for novelties or curiosities.
n.
Conformity; congruity; harmony; consistency; as, these subjects are in keeping with each other.
a.
Not yet decided; in continuance; in suspense; as, a pending suit.
a.
Having a semblance, whether with or without reality; apparent; specious; befitting; as, seeming friendship; seeming truth.
n.
The act of seeing sights; eagerness for novelties or curiosities.
a.
Guiding; directing; controlling; foremost; as, a leading motive; a leading man; a leading example.
n.
The act or habit of seeking one's own interest or happiness; selfishness.