Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: trachos@uni-paderborn.de (Konstantin Trachos)
Subject: Re: What is a barrier?
Organization: Uni-GH Paderborn, Germany
Date: 14 Sep 1995 14:38:22 GMT
Message-ID: <439eou$pus@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>

In article <431kni$2jn@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>, chukran@chukran.austin.ibm.com (Rudy Chukran) writes:
|> Can someone give me a synopsis of what a barrier is and how

You can find it in G. Wilson: A glossary of parallel computing, 
IEEE Parallel & Distributed Technology 1(1):52-67, February 1993

-- 
While one process was trying to go to sleep, 
the other one was trying to wake it up. 
(A. Tanenbaum, Operating Systems)

