Equations and formulas in Operating Systems
So, you thought that the equations you solved from your Physics class and those integral set of problems from your Algebra class will be left behind after you graduated from college?
You’re wrong.
Our computers understand mathematical models that have a closed form solution, meaning it uses equations in order to track changes and/or movement inside the operating system- from the data that it serves up to functionalities that it conducts.
Wow. Just Wow.
How?
As I learned - these artifacts are called analytic models. It describes a collection of measured and computed behaviors of different elements over a finite period of time within the computer system- workloads, hardware, software, everything : all are calculated exactly using analytical solutions.
For example, a fault-prepared system uses the fault trees as its failure anticipation mechanism in order to jot down component failures which leads to system takedown - more like a root-cause analysis (fishbone diagram), well in this case, inside an operating system.
Now, if you see the tree above, it anticipates any possible sources on an event. That’s where analytic modeling falls. It is exact, its number is appropriate, and most of the time, problems require mathematical and/or numeric equations for it to be able to be solved.
So, when one of the programs on my computer crashed, I won’t just flip my table and whine - I’ll reconsider that the computer tries to solve somewhere and it just can’t continue due to analytical problems, in our case.