Questions tagged [concurrency]
Questiont about issues of concurrency such as synchronization and deadlocks.
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Distributed algorithm can be executed in a single process
Looking at a "Distributed" algorithm from a textbook on distributed algorithms (e.g. Building a spanning tree, Broadcast/Convergecast.) I found that one can implement it using Golang's concurrency ...
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Concurrent Element-wise Reduction Algorithm (multi-threaded) (C++)
I'd like to implement a high-performance implementation of a multi-threaded reduction, element-wise, on x86 CPUs. Without loss of generality, assume the reduction operation is a sum of integers (so, ...
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Comparing wait-signal alternatives for synchronizing two piece of programs
I came across following problem:
A certain computation generates two arrays a and b such that ...
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Designing solution to critical section problem with two semaphores vs single semaphore
I came across following problem:
Let two processes P1 and P2 are there:
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Does this state certify to be called as a deadlock?
I came across following problem:
Barrier is a synchronization construct where a set of processes synchronizes globally i.e., each process in the set arrives at the barrier and waits for all others ...
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Whats exact definition of 'atomicity' in programming?
the definition of 'atomicity' says that a transaction should be able to be terminated without being touched or manipulated by possibly concurrent running actions during its process. But does that also ...
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Are two CCS processes equivalent with respect to weak bisimilarity if and only if they satisfy exactly the same set of HML formulas?
I was skimming this recent paper and I was struck by the following statement:
two processes are equivalent with respect to weak bisimilarity if and only if they satisfy exactly the same set of HML ...
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Can a schedule be conflict serializable but not serializable?
A schedule is called conflict serializable if it can be transformed into a serial schedule by swapping non-conflicting operations. Then,
My question is: Can a schedule be conflict serializable but ...
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When cascadeless and / or recoverable schedules can contain blind writes?
Some quick definitions / theory:
If instructions $I_i$ and $I_j$ of two different transactions operate on same data item and if any of them is a write operation then they are conflicting ...
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What is a counterexample for Lamport's distributed mutual exclusion algorithm with non-FIFO message queues?
Lamport's distributed mutual exclusion algorithm (also described here) solves mutual exclusion problem for $N$ processes with $3(N-1)$ messages per request ("take and release lock" cycle).
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Prove that set of operations form a commutative Monoid
this is my first post on this exchange.
I am looking for some help with defining a proof that a set of operations I have designed forms a commutative monoid.
(Disclaimer: I am not sure that I have ...
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System restarted before transaction is committed
Consider the following log sequence of two transactions on a bank account, with initial balance 12000, that transfer 2000 to a mortgage payment and then apply a 5% interest.
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Can 2-philosophers problem be analogous to dining philosophers problem?
Two philosophers A and B, two forks numbered "1", "2"; A needs both "1" and "2" for eating, so does B.
Is this theoretical a dining philosopher problem? I'm questioning about the forks philosopher A ...
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How can I implement locking a range of values in a sorted sequence?
I am trying to write a general purpose locking algorithm which allows me to lock a range of contiguous values in a sorted array. To start with, these could be exclusive locks - so two concurrent locks ...
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Thoughts on definition for disadvantage of concurrent processing?
I'm a Computer Science student currently learning about concurrent processing. I found the benefits and disadvantages in my book vague, did some online research and put together a more detailed way of ...
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Is a schedule with autocommit and no aborts automatically recoverable?
As in the title, since we won't have problems with cascading aborts and each transaction is committed automatically, doesn't this mean that the schedule will always be recoverable?
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What is the formal statement of the dining philosopher's problem?
I've read about it in a few places and I'm not sure I get it.
Are the philosopher's allowed to act simultaneously?
Do they each take 1 action simultaneously, then go on to their next action?
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Do we really need a mutex in this case?
Wikipedia's solution for multi Producer-Consumer problem uses both mutexes and semaphores.
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Which Peterson’s Solution is right?
I have seen two different Peterson’s Solution to mutual exclusion, one is from Modern Operating Systems:
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how to find the depth of a concurrency bug
How to find the depth of a concurrency bug
The below program runs on two separate threads and shares the variable x. Variables t1 and t2 are local to their threads. The program has a concurrency bug ...
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Can Multiprocessor Systems Implement Both Temporal Multithreading and Simultaneous Multithreading?
I am aware that multiprocessor systems often implement simultaneous multithreading in order to allow multiple threads to run on different CPUs. I am also aware that uni-core systems often implement ...
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What is the Difference Between Many-to-Many (M:M) Threading and Hybrid (M:N) Threading?
I have been researching threading and come across several websites which all say contradicting statements about which and how many thread models exist. Some websites say there are only three: 1:1, M:1 ...
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What fraction of all combinations is guaranteed to be deadlock free?
I found this question in the exercise of Tanenbaum (operating systems):
Two processes, $A$ and $B$,each need three records $1, 2, \text{ and } 3$ in a database. If $A$ asks for them in the
order $...
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How to Optimise Each Multithreading Technique? (Cooperative/Preemptive/Simultaneous)
I am currently in the process of writing an IB Extended Essay on the efficacy of multithreading on increasing the performance of applications. So far, I have been able to deduce that there are three ...
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Checking claim in paper “A Read-Only Transaction Anomaly Under Snapshot Isolation” by Alan Fekete et al
In the 2004 paper "A Read-Only Transaction Anomaly Under Snapshot Isolation" by Alan Fekete et al. (which can be found here and here) the authors state:
We also note that any execution of T1 and T2 ...
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How to keep track of changes done to concurrent stacks?
I am writing a small RPN calculator that works on some stacks concurrently. For example, if I have two functions:
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Are process-safe mutexes shared between OSes?
I understand you can use process wide mutexes, but does this still apply if you have an additional virtualized operating system provisioned?
For example, take two OSes: ...
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Serializability and the Lost Update Problem
Serializability is the strongest consistency level with regard to the execution of two concurrent transactions T1 and T2. That is, if T1 and T2 independently change the application between consistent ...
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Erlang- Creating a function which only adds/subtracts positive integers
I want to create a function which allows me to input a list, and then add all of the positive numbers from the list together, leaving any that are negative.
([3,1,-1])
For example only 3 and 1 would ...
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What are good resources for self teaching parallel/concurrent/multithreaded programming techniques? [closed]
I’m having a hard time finding anything thorough. I have found some courses with titles like "parallel and concurrent programming in Java", but I'm looking to learn general techniques, not their use ...
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Task scheduling algorithm that limits concurrency
My prof introduced us an algorithm with semaphores that was used to solve the "dining philosophers" problem.
The algo is ok, apart from that it limits concurrency.
What does mean that it "limits ...
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Concurrency and fairness
I'm studying the concurrency in programming and the atomic instructions.
What i have not understood is the concept of "fairness" applied to this matter.
Can you give me an hint ?
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Concurrency and non deterministm
I was introduced in concurrency programming this morning.
I haven't understood why "non deterministm" is a fundamental aspect of cuncurrenty programming.
What i think is that, since there is a ...
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Is it possible for a stack-based programming language to be concurrent?
I have been reading about stack-based programming languages, such as FORTH and Cat, and it seems that given their nature, they can only execute one action at a time regardless of their paradigm (FORTH ...
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interval tree clocks
I understand how vector clocks detect concurrent events, but they are designed for a fixed number of nodes, so we can't easily add and remove nodes. And with interval tree clock we can.
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bakery algorithm, switching up the condition
I'm currently studying the Bakery Algorithm. I understand it for what it is but now I want to switch it up a bit.
If we changed the < in the 2nd ...
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Compute the mode of an array concurrently
As an academic exercise, I have to write a parallel algorithm that given a sorted array of $n$ integers computes the mode (i.e. the item with the highest frequency) efficiently using $p$ processors, ...
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How to do compare-and-increment different locations with in memory MVCC?
I'm reading the paper An Empirical Evaluation of
In-Memory Multi-Version Concurrency Control which is about implementations of MVCC for in-memory databases. Section 3.3 on Two-phase Locking (MV2PL) ...
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What does synchronous and asynchronous mean in computer science?
Words synchronous and asynchronous can be met several times, in different contexts, when studying computer science. As an example :
Synchronous and asynchronous circuits.
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concurrency control in real time database
Can Lamport's Bakery algorithm be used for controlling concurrency in soft real time database system (case study of stock trading)?
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Conflict serializibility
So, the task is to prove the following:
If S is a schedule containing at most one write action, then S is conflict-serializable.
The answer is yes, but I disagree, because the following schedule ...
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Number of conflict serializable schedules
Two transactions $T_1$ and $T_2$ are given as:
$$T_1: r_1(X)w_1(X)r_1(Y)w_1(Y)$$
$$T_2: r_2(Y)w_2(Y)r_2(Z)w_2(Z)$$
where $r_i(V)$ denotes a read operation by transaction $T_i$ on a ...
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FLP Impossiblity Result assumption of $C_1 = e'(C_0)$
FLP86's famous proof regarding impossibility of async distributed processes with a single fault assumes in the proof of the third lemma the existence of an event $e'$ such that the neighbor ...
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Lamport's distributed mutual exclusion: wait-chain order clock
Regarding Lamport's mutual exclusion... Where messages are exchanged in the following sequence between nodes S, G1, and G2. G1 and G2 are the members of the group.
(for this, lets just assume that ...
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Is Dekker's algorithm not k-bounded for any finite k?
Consider this version of the algorithm, for only 2 processes, 0 and 1:
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Are synchronous message sends a subset of async. ones?
Imagine any object oriented PL based around the idea of message sends: some method basically performs something like this:
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Finite state automaton's reaction to simultaneous events
What does happen if two events simultaneously occur at a particular state of a finite state automaton (FSA)?
For example, assume that an FSA's event table at its state $s$ is as follows:
$\delta(s,...
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Question about IO automaton
I'm currently reading Nancy Lynch book about distributed systems, chapter about IO automaton. And I have following questions related to book exercise 8.13(c).
We are given some automaton A with sig(A)...
