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EuroPVM 1996: Parallel Virtual Machine — EuroPVM '96 pp 315–318Cite as

Extending synchronization PVM mechanisms

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The main advantage of our implementation is its direct handling of all semaphore operation requests. More over, it does not require the existence of semaphore primitives in the underlying operating system. Thus, it can as easily be implemented in environments that do not already have semaphores.

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

    P. Theodoropoulos, G. Manis, P. Tsanakas & G. Papakonstantinou

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Arndt Bode Jack Dongarra Thomas Ludwig Vaidy Sunderam

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Theodoropoulos, P., Manis, G., Tsanakas, P., Papakonstantinou, G. (1996). Extending synchronization PVM mechanisms. In: Bode, A., Dongarra, J., Ludwig, T., Sunderam, V. (eds) Parallel Virtual Machine — EuroPVM '96. EuroPVM 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1156. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3540617795_41

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