barriers
Robert G. Brown
rgb@phy.duke.edu
Fri, 4 Jun 1999 12:09:06 -0400
On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Christoph Wasshuber wrote:
> What are 'barriers'? Please enlighten me.
Points where parallel code has to exchange information between
(some-to-all) nodes and resynchronize. In between barriers, work
proceeds in parallel on the nodes.
rgb
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> Chris....
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