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Title: Intranode data communications in a parallel computer

Abstract

Intranode data communications in a parallel computer that includes compute nodes configured to execute processes, where the data communications include: allocating, upon initialization of a first process of a computer node, a region of shared memory; establishing, by the first process, a predefined number of message buffers, each message buffer associated with a process to be initialized on the compute node; sending, to a second process on the same compute node, a data communications message without determining whether the second process has been initialized, including storing the data communications message in the message buffer of the second process; and upon initialization of the second process: retrieving, by the second process, a pointer to the second process's message buffer; and retrieving, by the second process from the second process's message buffer in dependence upon the pointer, the data communications message sent by the first process.

Inventors:
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Issue Date:
Research Org.:
International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1113763
Patent Number(s):
8627334
Application Number:
13/709,305
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
Patent Classifications (CPCs):
G - PHYSICS G06 - COMPUTING G06F - ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
DOE Contract Number:  
B554331
Resource Type:
Patent
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 2012 Dec 10
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING

Citation Formats

Archer, Charles J, Blocksome, Michael A, Miller, Douglas R, Ratterman, Joseph D, and Smith, Brian E. Intranode data communications in a parallel computer. United States: N. p., 2014. Web.
Archer, Charles J, Blocksome, Michael A, Miller, Douglas R, Ratterman, Joseph D, & Smith, Brian E. Intranode data communications in a parallel computer. United States.
Archer, Charles J, Blocksome, Michael A, Miller, Douglas R, Ratterman, Joseph D, and Smith, Brian E. Tue . "Intranode data communications in a parallel computer". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1113763.
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