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  • Effective use of a hardware barrier synchronization register for protocol synchronization
    Patent number: 8056087
    Abstract: A barrier synchronization register, accessible to the nodes in a distributed data processing system, has portions thereof allotted to threads which are present in multiple groups. The barrier synchronization register portion allotted to a given thread has stored therein, over time, group identifier numbers. In this way the state space of a barrier synchronization register is shared over more than one group of process threads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Piyush Chaudhary, Rama K. Govindaraju, Chulho Kim, Rajeev Sivaram, Hanhong Xue