Superblock may refer to:
Urban planning
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Superblock (urban planning)
A city block, residential block, urban block, or simply block is a central element of urban planning and urban design.
A city block is the smallest group of buildings that is surrounded by streets, not counting any type of thoroughfare within t ...
, a type of city block that is much larger than a traditional city block
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Superblock (University of Minnesota)
The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public land-grant research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. T ...
, a section of the Health area in the East Bank of the Minneapolis campus, US
** Superblock, a former large area formed after urban renewal in the
cityscape of Huntington, West Virginia
Huntington, West Virginia's central business district is located to the south of the Ohio River, east of the Robert C. Byrd Bridge, and west of Hal Greer Boulevard. Broad avenues and streets dominate the streetscape, creating for the most part ...
, US
Computing
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Superblock (file system)
The Unix file system (UFS) is a family of file systems supported by many Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It is a distant descendant of the original filesystem used by Version 7 Unix.
Design
A UFS volume is composed of the following p ...
, a segment of metadata describing the file system on a block device, as in the Unix File System
* Superblock, in the
density matrix renormalization group
The density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) is a numerical variational technique devised to obtain the low-energy physics of quantum many-body systems with high accuracy. As a variational method, DMRG is an efficient algorithm that attempts ...
numerical technique
* Superblock algorithm, in the
pairwise summation In numerical analysis
Numerical analysis is the study of algorithms that use numerical approximation (as opposed to symbolic manipulations) for the problems of mathematical analysis (as distinguished from discrete mathematics). It is the study o ...
numerical analysis
* Superblock, of pixels, for example in the
AV1
AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) is an open, royalty-free video coding format initially designed for video transmissions over the Internet. It was developed as a successor to VP9 by the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), a consortium founded in 2015 tha ...
video coding format, or VP9
* Superblocks, of memory in the Hoard
C dynamic memory allocation
C dynamic memory allocation refers to performing manual memory management for dynamic memory allocation in the C programming language via a group of functions in the C standard library, namely , , , and .
The C++ programming language include ...
See also
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Superblock scheduling
In computer science, instruction scheduling is a compiler optimization used to improve instruction-level parallelism, which improves performance on machines with instruction pipelines. Put more simply, it tries to do the following without changing ...
, a type of instruction scheduling
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