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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 1998
Filed:
Apr. 25, 1995
Andrew T Jennings, West Chester, PA (US);
Timothy N Fender, Berwyn, PA (US);
Duane J McCrory, Malvern, PA (US);
Craig R Church, Havertown, PA (US);
Unisys Corporation, Blue Bell, PA (US);
Abstract
A method for communicating active messages among nodes of a parallel processing computer system is disclosed. The active messages are defined by .mu.threads, and the method comprises the steps of: (a) generating a .mu.thread comprising an instruction pointer, frame pointer, and Local Parameters pointer from a first node to a second node; and (b) performing a procedure on a data structure in accordance with the .mu.thread. The instruction pointer points to an application specific procedure in system memory, and the frame pointer points to an application specific data structure in system memory. The Local Parameters pointer points to one or more words of additional data or parameters stored in memory mapped device registers or system memory.