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We describe hardware and software schemes for achieving precise clock synchronization on SP2 parallel system nodes. The SP2 multistage interconnection network has an unusual hardware feature, a set of distributed counters that the processor nodes may utilize for synchronizing their time–of–day clocks. We describe an algorithm for synchronizing the counters to within less than 200 nanoseconds of each...