Scheduler-Conscious Synchronization

ACM Transactions on Computer Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 3-40

  Kontothanassis, Leonidas I ^a   Wisniewski, Robert W ^b   Scott, Michael L ^c  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE   (United States)

^c University of Rochester   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; MULTIPROGRAMMING; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; SYNCHRONIZATION; USER INTERFACES;

KERNEL SCHEDULER; LARGE SCALE MULTIPROCESSORS;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031073624     PISSN: 07342071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/244764.244765     Document Type: Article

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