Although database replication has been a standard feature in database management systems for a long time, third party solutions have been enjoying an increasing popularity. These ...
Large–scale parallel applications performing global synchronization may spend a significant amount of execution time waiting for the completion of a barrier operation. Conseque...
The computer industry is currently examining the use of strong synchronization operations such as double compareand-swap (DCAS) as a means of supporting non-blocking synchronizati...
Ole Agesen, David Detlefs, Christine H. Flood, Ale...
Concurrency in Logic Programming has received much attention in the past. One problem with many proposals, when applied to Prolog, is that they involve large modifications to the...
The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is widely used to synchronize computer clocks throughout the Internet. Existing NTP clients and servers form a very large distributed system, and y...