A Survey of Synchronization Methods for Parallel Computers

  • Authors:
  • Anne Dinning

  • Affiliations:
  • New York Univ., New York, NY

  • Venue:
  • Computer
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

An examination is given of how traditional synchronization methods influence the design of MIMD (multiple-instruction multiple-data-stream) multiprocessors. She provides an overview of MIMD multiprocessing and goes on to discuss semaphore-based implementations (Ultracomputers, Cedar, and the Sequent Balance/21000), monitor-based implementations (the HM/sup 2/p) and implementations based on message-passing (HEP, the BBN Butterfly and the Transputer).