A dynamic-sized nonblocking work stealing deque

Distributed Computing

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 189-207

  Hendler, Danny ^a   Lev, Yossi ^b   Moir, Mark ^c   Shavit, Nir ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SUN MICROSYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Concurrent programming; Data structures; Load balancing; Lock free; Work stealing

Indexed keywords

CONCURRENT PROGRAMMING; LOAD BALANCING; LOCK-FREE; WORK STEALING;

ARRAYS; CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SYNCHRONIZATION;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 32844466488     PISSN: 01782770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00446-005-0144-5     Document Type: Article

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