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IPPS
1997
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
A Reliable Hardware Barrier Synchronization Scheme
Barrier synchronization is a crucial operation for parallel systems. Many schemes have been proposed in the literature to achieve fast barrier synchronization through software, ha...
Rajeev Sivaram, Craig B. Stunkel, Dhabaleswar K. P...
SIGCSE
2004
ACM
628views Education» more  SIGCSE 2004»
15 years 3 months ago
Design patterns for semaphores
This paper describes two design patterns that are powerful tools to help teach how semaphores are used to solve synchronization problems. The patterns are general enough to be use...
Kenneth A. Reek
PACT
2007
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Support for Fine-Grained Synchronization in Shared-Memory Multiprocessors
Abstract. It has been already verified that hardware-supported finegrain synchronization provides a significant performance improvement over coarse-grained synchronization mecha...
Vladimir Vlassov, Oscar Sierra Merino, Csaba Andra...
APLAS
2004
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Concurrency Combinators for Declarative Synchronization
Developing computer systems that are both concurrent and evolving is challenging. To guarantee consistent access to resources by concurrent software components, some synchronizatio...
Pawel T. Wojciechowski
SIGCSE
2000
ACM
193views Education» more  SIGCSE 2000»
15 years 2 months ago
Experimentation with bounded buffer synchronization
Undergraduates are usually introduced to synchronization in operating systems through a discussion of classical problems such as reader-writer or producers-consumers. The traditio...
Steven Robbins