MIT Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

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EECS Fall 1995 Catalog Supplement

6.891 Multiprocessor Synchronization (H)

W 10-1, 36-372
3-0-9
Prof. Nir Shavit, NE43-367, x5905
The course will cover the algorithmic and computational aspects of synchronization and coordination in multiprocessor systems. We will attempt to address both theoretical and practical aspects of designing and using various hardware and software synchronization paradigms, constructs, and data structures. A partial list includes: mutual exclusion; barrier synchronization; limitations of read/write memory; randomized consensus; read-modify-write primitives; contention and sequential bottlenecking; and various advanced data structures such as software combining trees, counting networks, diffracting trees, and more.

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