Synchronization is the coordination of events to operate the system in unison. For example, the conductor of an orchestra retains the orchestra synchronized or in time. Systems that operate with any parts in synchrony are said to be synchronous or in sync—and those that are non are asynchronous.
Today, time synchronization can arise between systems around the world through satellite navigation signals together with other time and frequency transfer techniques.
In electrical engineering terms, for digital logical system and data transfer, a synchronous circuit requires a clock signal. A clocksimply signals the start or end of some time period, often measured in microseconds or nanoseconds, that has an arbitrary relationship to all other system of measurement of the passage of minutes, hours, and days.
In a different sense, electronic systems are sometimes synchronized to hold events at points far apartsimultaneous or near-simultaneous from aperspective. Timekeeping technologies such as the GPS satellites and Network Time Protocol NTP supply real-time access to aapproximation to the UTC timescale and are used for many terrestrial synchronization a formal request to be considered for a position or to be allowed to do or have something. of this kind.
In computer science particularly parallel computing, synchronization is the coordination of simultaneous threads or processes to prepare a task with right runtime positioning and no unexpected race conditions; see synchronization data processor science for details.
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