The first module of the ISS was launched into space in 1998 and the initial construction of the station took about two years to complete. Human occupation of the station began on November 2, 2000. Since that time, the ISS has been continuously occupied.
rimfire. ( 1 of a cartridge) having the primer in a rim encircling the base. Compare center-fire (def 1). ( 2 of a firearm) designed for the use of such cartridges.
In-Memory Data Grid. Pivotal GemFireÂ® stores all operational data compressed and in-memory to avoid disk I/O time lags. Nodes operate in a cluster, optimizing data distribution and processing, to ensure the highest speed and balanced utilization of system resources.ivotal GemFire supports user defined object models in complex graphs, as well as documents in JSON format. Data can be accessed in native clients for Java, C++ and C#, as well as applications supporting REST calls.