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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 1996
Filed:
Dec. 10, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Thomas A MacDonald, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Janet M Eberhart, Saint Paul, MN (US);
Douglas M Pase, Burnsville, MN (US);
Assignee:
Cray Research, Inc., Eagan, MN (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395706 ;
Abstract
A method of setting array boundaries in order to simplify addressing across processor elements in a distributed memory system having global addressing. Each dimension of an array is examined to determine a lower bound, a declared upper bound and an implicit upper bound. The lower bound and the declared upper bound in each dimension are used to set limits for operations on array elements while the implicit upper bound calculated from the lower bound and the declared upper bound is used in calculating the location (processor element and offset) of a particular array element.