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CSCD467 Parallel & Cloud Computing Midterm Study guide.

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1. Concept of barrier and semaphore

• Barrier - Datastructure that allows threads to wait for each other to reach a same barrier point. CyclicBarrier - barrier that is re-used after the threads are released.

• Semaphore - Datastructure that maintains a set of permits and it ensures that only N threads can access a certain resource at a given time. Tip : Why getItem() method is not synchronized? A : because semaphore encapsulates the synchronization inside itself.

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