Shared-Memory Synchronization

by Michael L. Scott and Trevor Brown

Book Overview

Since the advent of time sharing in the 1960s, designers of concurrent and parallel systems have needed to synchronize the activities of threads of control that share data structures in memory. In recent years, the study of synchronization has gained new urgency with the proliferation of multicore processors, on which even relatively simple user-level programs must frequently run in parallel. This lecture offers a comprehensive survey of shared-memory...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 160845956X
• ISBN13: 9781608459568
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Morgan & Claypool
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.5" x 9.3"