[The Bulk-Synchronous Parallel model is defined with barrier-style synchronization:] Facilities for synchronizing all or a subset … [processing and memory] … computation consists of a sequence of supersteps. In … message transmissions and (implicitly) message arrivals from other … the superstep has been completed by all the … L units is allocated to the unfinished superstep. …
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