R. F. DeMara, B. S. Motlagh, E. Lin, and S. Kuo, 
"Barrier Synchronization Techniques for Distributed Process Creation," in 
Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Parallel Processing 
(IPPS'94), pp. 597 - 603, Cancun, Mexico, April 26 - 29, 1994.

Abstract:
Synchronization techniques are proposed for algorithms which spawn processes 
remotely on loosely coupled processors based on run-time characteristics. The 
performance of proposed synchronization schemes are measured on iPSC/2 and SNAP-
1 multiprocessors and their implementation cost is discussed. Results show that 
processes created dynamically throughout a distributed system can be 
synchronized at comparable overhead and cost to that required for the fixed 
location process creation.