Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput – Computer-to-computer data routing – Least weight routing
Patent
1997-10-24
2000-02-15
Banankhah, Majid A.
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput
Computer-to-computer data routing
Least weight routing
G06F 900
Patent
active
060264268
ABSTRACT:
An application programming interface that unifies a plurality of mechanisms into a single framework. The interface includes a mechanism for communicating between members of a process group of related processes, and a mechanism for synchronizing the related processes of the process group. Additionally, the application programming interface may include mechanisms for managing membership of the process group or a processor group of processors, and/or a mechanism for controlling a group state value for the process group.
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Badovinatz Peter Richard
Blount Marion Lee
Brenner Larry Bert
Chandra Tushar Deepak
Gopal Ajei Sarat
Banankhah Majid A.
Gonzalez Floyd A.
International Business Machines - Corporation
Schiller Blanche E.
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