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  2. Synchronization (computer science) - Wikipedia

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    Synchronization overheads can significantly impact performance in parallel computing environments, where merging data from multiple processes can incur costs substantially higher—often by two or more orders of magnitude—than processing the same data on a single thread, primarily due to the additional overhead of inter-process communication ...

  3. Process management (computing) - Wikipedia

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    A process is a program in execution, and an integral part of any modern-day operating system (OS). The OS must allocate resources to processes, enable processes to share and exchange information, protect the resources of each process from other processes and enable synchronization among processes.

  4. Peterson's algorithm - Wikipedia

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    Similarly, at the next level, N − 2 will proceed, etc., until at the final level, only one process is allowed to leave the waiting room and enter the critical section, giving mutual exclusion. [4]: 22–24 Unlike the two-process Peterson algorithm, the filter algorithm does not guarantee bounded waiting. [4]: 25–26

  5. Synchronization (alternating current) - Wikipedia

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    In an alternating current (AC) electric power system, synchronization is the process of matching the frequency, phase and voltage of a generator or other source to an electrical grid in order to transfer power. If two unconnected segments of a grid are to be connected to each other, they cannot safely exchange AC power until they are synchronized.

  6. Inter-process communication - Wikipedia

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    A grid computing system that connects many personal computers over the Internet via inter-process network communication. In computer science, interprocess communication (IPC) is the sharing of data between running processes in a computer system. Mechanisms for IPC may be provided by an operating system.

  7. Monitor (synchronization) - Wikipedia

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    In concurrent programming, a monitor is a synchronization construct that prevents threads from concurrently accessing a shared object's state and allows them to wait for the state to change. They provide a mechanism for threads to temporarily give up exclusive access in order to wait for some condition to be met, before regaining exclusive ...

  8. Frame synchronization - Wikipedia

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    Thus, it is acceptable to use a much smaller frame boundary marker, at the expense of a lengthier process to establish synchronization in the first place. Frame synchronization is achieved when the incoming frame alignment signals are identified (that is, distinguished from data bits), permitting the data bits within the frame to be extracted ...

  9. Sleeping barber problem - Wikipedia

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    There are several possible solutions, but all solutions require a mutex, which ensures that only one of the participants can change state at once.The barber must acquire the room status mutex before checking for customers and release it when they begin either to sleep or cut hair; a customer must acquire it before entering the shop and release it once they are sitting in a waiting room or ...