Multiprocessor and Real-Time Parallel Processing

Abstract

The main subject of this thesis is a distributed, real-time processing system, which we have developed for application in the processing and classification of biological signals. As a matter of fact, one way to inrrease a system's processing power consists in the utilization of multiple processors sharing the workload among themselves; the management and coordination of shared resources becomes specially critical, when realtime systems operation is at stake. (...)