Barrier synchronization techniques for distributed process creation
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- DeMara, R.; Mortlagh, B.; Lin, C.; Kuo, S.
- Source
- Proceedings of 8th International Parallel Processing Symposium Parallel Processing Symposium, 1994. Proceedings., Eighth International. :597-603 1994
- Subject
- Computing and Processing
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Runtime
Costs
Distributed computing
Hypercubes
Degradation
Bandwidth
- Language
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.ETX