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Global semaphores in a parallel programming environment

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Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface (EuroPVM/MPI 1997)

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In this paper we present a global semaphores mechanism, and ported on various parallel programming environments. The whole mechanism is available as a library for the C programming language and some additional include files. The parallel applications programmer uses these functions in order to construct transparent synchronization schemes in a wide variety of parallel processing systems.

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  1. Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Zografou Campus, Zografou, 15773, Athens, Greece

    P. Theodoropoulos, P. Tsanakas & G. Papakonstantinou

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Marian Bubak Jack Dongarra Jerzy Waśniewski

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Theodoropoulos, P., Tsanakas, P., Papakonstantinou, G. (1997). Global semaphores in a parallel programming environment. In: Bubak, M., Dongarra, J., Waśniewski, J. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1332. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63697-8_81

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