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Barrier (computer science)

Known as: Barrier, Synchronous rendezvous, Rendezvous 
In parallel computing, a barrier is a type of synchronization method. A barrier for a group of threads or processes in the source code means any… 
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2014
2014
Consumer Resistance Factors for the Adoption of FTTH Ultra-Fast Broadband in New Zealand
It is a common maxim in telecommunications policy that access to a network is not the same as adoption of that network's… 
2011
2011
Spin Transport in $\hbox{Co/Al}_{2}\hbox{O}_{3}/\hbox{Alq}_{3}/\hbox{Co}$ Organic Spin Valve
Organic spin valve devices with Co/Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>/8-hydroxyquinoline-aluminum (Alq<sub>3</sub>)/Co sandwich… 
2007
2007
Continuous Improvement Practices in Asian Developing Countries A Comparative Analysis between Chinese & Pakistani Manufacturing Industry
Pakistan and China both on industrial grounds have been engaged in following International Quality Standards to improve their… 
2006
2006
Biosafety Recommendations for the Contained Use of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Isolates in Industrialized Countries.
Abstract Staff working in microbiological diagnostic and research laboratories is likely to be exposed toinfection risk with… 
2003
2003
Collective Operations in an Application-level Fault Tolerant MPI System
The running times of many computational science programs are now significantly greater than the mean-time-betweenfailures (MTBF… 
2000
2000
Knowledge as a transformation agent
Why is it so difficult to make change happen? Many companies fail because they do not have the right internal structure and… 
1997
1997
A reliable hardware barrier synchronization scheme
Barrier synchronization is a crucial operation for parallel systems. Many schemes have been proposed in the literature to achieve… 
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1994
Highly Cited
1994
Optimal software multicast in wormhole-routed multistage networks
Multistage interconnection networks are a popular class of interconnection architecture for constructing scalable parallel… 
1994
1994
Static Analysis of Barrier Synchronization in Explicitly Parallel Programs
Many coarse-grained, explicitly parallel programs execute in phases delimited by barriers to preserve sets of cross process data… 
1990
1990
Hardware Barrier Synchronization: Static Barrier MIMD (SBM)
In this paper, we give the design, and performance analysis, of a new, highly efficient, synchronization mechanism called… 
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