Technique to perform concurrent updates to a shared data structure
US7350036B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Aug 1, 2005 |
| Grant date | Mar 25, 2008 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 24, 2026 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F2209/5017
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A technique to perform concurrent updates to a shared data structure. At least one embodiment of the invention concurrently stores copies of a data structure within a plurality of local caches, updates the local caches with a partial result of a computation distributed among a plurality of processing elements, and returns the partial results to combining logic in parallel, which combines the partial results into a final result.
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