A situation where several processes access and manipulate the same data concurrently and the outcome of the execution depends on the particular order in which access takes place is called:

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• Let S and Q be two semaphores initialized to 1, where P0 and P1 processes the following statements wait(S);wait(Q); ---; signal(S);signal(Q) and wait(Q); wait(S);---;signal(Q);signal(S); respectively. The above situation depicts a _________.
• ________________ takes the data in data to be packed and packs it into contig_buf.
• A collective communication in which data belonging to a single process is sent to all of the processes in the communicator is called a ________________.
• A collective communication in which data belonging to a single process is sent to all of the processes in the communicator is called a _________.
• The routine ________________ combines data from all processes by adding them in this case and returning the result to a single process.
• A processor performing fetch or decoding of different instruction during the execution of another instruction is called ______.
• A collection of lines that connects several devices is called ______________
• If a process is executing in its critical section, then no other processes can be executing in their critical section. This condition is called ___________.
• Communication functions that involve all the processes in a communicator are called ___________
• The processes exchange partial results instead of using oneway communications. Such a communication pattern is sometimes called a ___________.