Partial snapshot objects

  • Authors:
  • Hagit Attiya;Rachid Guerraoui;Eric Ruppert

  • Affiliations:
  • Technion, Haifa, Israel;EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland;York University, Toronto, ON, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the twentieth annual symposium on Parallelism in algorithms and architectures
  • Year:
  • 2008

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

We introduce a generalization of the atomic snapshot object, which we call the partial snapshot object. This object stores a vector of values. Processes may write components of the vector individually or atomically read any subset of the components. We investigate implementations of the latter partial scan operation that are more efficient than the complete scans of traditional snapshot objects. We present an algorithm that is based on a new implementation of the active set abstraction, which may be of independent interest.