Alien thread

In computing, an alien thread in a multi-processor system is a thread of program execution executed by one processor on behalf of a process running in another processor.^[1]

References

^ Implementing Distributed Mutual Exclusion on Multithreaded Environments: The Alien-Threads Approach (PDF). International Symposium and School on Advanced Distributed Systems (LNCS vol. 3563). Guadalajara, Mexico. January 2005. pp. 51–62. doi:10.1007/11533962_6. {{cite conference}}: Unknown parameter |authors= ignored (help)

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[1] Implementing Distributed Mutual Exclusion on Multithreaded Environments: The Alien-Threads Approach (PDF). International Symposium and School on Advanced Distributed Systems (LNCS vol. 3563). Guadalajara, Mexico. January 2005. pp. 51–62. doi:10.1007/11533962_6. {{cite conference}}: Unknown parameter |authors= ignored (help)

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