A Distributed Parallel Pipelined Hardware-Level Barrier Synchronization Method for Mesh-Connected Multicomputers


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Abstract


In the article, the authors present a new distributed hardware-level method for barrier synchronization of parallel programs in a mesh-connected multicomputer, which is based on the usage of a virtual multislice pipeline coordinating environment timed by clock pulse waves.
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Mesh-Connected Multicomputer; Parallel Processes; Barrier Synchronization; Hardware-Level Barrier

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