Concurrency 2.1 Flashcards by Sam White | Brainscape

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What is a parallel system?

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When a system is running on separate processes

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What is a concurrent system?

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A set of sequential programs that can be executed in parallel

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What is a race condition?

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When two processes try to write to a shared variable at the same time.

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