“Fragmented memory” describes all of a system’s unusable free memory. These resources remain unused because the memory allocator responsible for allocating them cannot make the memory available. This ...

Fragment-based drug discovery (FBDD) is playing an increasingly important part in delivering candidates to the clinic. Compared with screens of lead- or drug-sized molecules, fragments allow for a ...

External fragmentation occurs when unused gaps arise between blocks of allocated memory. This situation can happen, for example, when an application allocates three blocks in succession and then frees ...