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Group:
parallel processing
Topic:
coordinated movement
Topic:
examples of coordination systems
Topic:
synchronized processing
Topic:
task communication
Subtopic: coordination vs. notification up

Quote: coordination deals with synchronous activity while notification deals with asynchronous activity
Quote: improve coordination by revealing agents' states through notification; since easier to avoid conflicts than to resolve them [»wexeA4_1992]

Subtopic: conflicts up

Quote: simultaneous, conflicting updates indicate an external coordination problem [»oppeDC10_1981]

Subtopic: coordinated process up

Quote: coordination is arranging rendezvous and interactions, and scheduling activities and allocating resources to prevent conflicts [»wexeA4_1992]
Quote: coordination is the putting together of many ACTIONS into organized activities [»holtAW_1997]

Subtopic: broadcast up

Quote: broadcast is important for distributed systems for advertising needs and services and for coordinated problem solving [»cherDR4_1984]

Subtopic: heartbeat and master up

Quote: a single GFS master manages the file system metadata for chunkservers; e.g., namespace, access control, mappings, garbage collection [»gherS10_2003]
Quote: use heartbeat messages for communication between master and chunkservers

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Group: parallel processing   (41 topics, 1116 quotes)
Topic: coordinated movement (58 items)
Topic: examples of coordination systems (23 items)
Topic: synchronized processing (35 items)
Topic: task communication
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