Barrier synchronization techniques for distributed process creation

Author

Demara, R. ; Mortlagh, B. ; Lin, C. ; Kuo, S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

26-29 Apr 1994

Firstpage

597

Lastpage

603

Abstract

Synchronization techniques are proposed for algorithms which spawn processes remotely on loosely coupled processors based on run-time characteristics. The performance of the proposed synchronization schemes are measured on the iPSC/2 and SNAP-1 multiprocessors and their implementation cost is discussed. Results show that processes created dynamically throughout a distributed system can be synchronized at comparable overhead and cost to that required for fixed-location process creation

Keywords

multiprocessing programs; parallel programming; performance evaluation; synchronisation; SNAP-1; barrier synchronization; distributed process creation; distributed system; hypercube networks; iPSC/2; loosely coupled processors; loosely coupled system; message-passing; performance; process creation; run-time characteristics; spawn-in-transit; symbolic processing; synchronization; Bandwidth; Costs; Degradation; Distributed computing; Hypercubes; Runtime;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel Processing Symposium, 1994. Proceedings., Eighth International

Conference_Location

Cancun

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5602-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPPS.1994.288243

Filename

288243

Link To Document

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