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The Variable-Processor Cup Game
William Kuszmaul, Alek Westover
The problem of scheduling tasks on processors so that no task ever gets too far behind is often described as a game with cups and water. In the -processor cup game on cu…
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In-Place Parallel-Partition Algorithms using Exclusive-Read-and-Write Memory
William Kuszmaul, Alek Westover
We present an in-place algorithm for the partition problem that has linear work and polylogarithmic span. The algorithm uses only exclusive read/write shared variables, and can be…