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- Newsgroups: comp.parallel
- Path: sparky!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!gatech!hubcap!fpst
- From: charlie@cse.ucsc.edu (Charlie McDowell)
- Subject: synchronization event traces
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.193700.22783@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Summary: traces of real programs needed
- Keywords: semaphores synchronization traces
- Sender: fpst@hubcap.clemson.edu (Steve Stevenson)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: camelot.ucsc.edu
- Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz (CE/CIS Boards)
- Distribution: usa
- Date: 11 Sep 1992 18:58:58 GMT
- Approved: parallel@hubcap.clemson.edu
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- We are looking for TRACES and/or PARALLEL PROGRAMS that use EXPLICIT
- (preferably semaphore style) synchronization.
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- We are in need of traces of real programs that use explicit synchronization.
- We would prefer programs that use semaphore style synchronization but
- will consider any explicit synchronization. We need them to test a new
- trace based algorithm for detecting races in parallel programs.
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- Although the problem we are solving is NP-hard we are hypothesizing
- that for actual programs our polynomial time algorithm will give
- accurate results.
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- If you have real programs that use semaphores but do not have traces
- we would still like to hear from you in case we can't get traces.
- If necessary we can extract the synchronization structure from your
- program and artificially create a trace.
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- Thanks for your help.
-
- Charlie McDowell
- charlie@cis.ucsc.edu
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