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Date of Patent
September 8, 2009
Patent Application Number
11272197
Date Filed
November 10, 2005
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Patent abstract
The present invention is a method of and system for program thread synchronization. In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, a method of synchronizing program threads for one or more processors is provided. An address for data for each of a plurality of program threads to be synchronized is determined. For each processor executing one or more of the threads to be synchronized, execution of the thread is halted at a barrier by attempting a data operation to the determined address and the address being unavailable. Execution of the threads is resumed.
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