Towards more powerful and flexible synchronization primitives

Author

Borkowski, Janusz

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

18

Lastpage

22

Abstract

A new scheme for parallel process synchronization is presented. For expressing synchronization conditions and associated control flow in a process code an interrupt mechanism is used. As a result, a passive waiting can be easily avoided. Interrupts are triggered when a specified condition becomes true. The conditions can reflect the status of a whole parallel application. To define the application status processes assign values to “state” variables. The variables can be read by the conditions. Conditions encapsulate the code responsible for synchronization and they let a programmer to construct customized, application specific synchronization primitives

Keywords

interrupts; parallel programming; synchronisation; application specific synchronization; flexible synchronization primitives; interrupt mechanism; parallel process synchronization; passive waiting; synchronization; Computational modeling; Concurrent computing; Information technology; Logic; Message passing; Parallel algorithms; Parallel programming; Programming profession; Scattering; Writing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel Computing in Electrical Engineering, 2000. PARELEC 2000. Proceedings. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Trois-Rivieres, Que.

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0759-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCEE.2000.873594

Filename

873594