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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 10, 1993
Steven M Oberlin, Chippewa Falls, WI (US);
Janet M Eberhart, Saint Paul, MN (US);
Gary W Elsesser, Richfield, MN (US);
Eric C Fromm, Eau Claire, WI (US);
Thomas A MacDonald, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Douglas M Pase, Burnsville, MN (US);
Randal S Passint, Chippewa Falls, WI (US);
Cray Research, Inc., Eagan, MN (US);
Abstract
A system and address method for extracting a PE number and offset from an array index. According to one aspect of the present invention, a processing element number is assigned to each processing element, a local memory address is assigned to each memory location and a linearized index is assigned to each array element in an array. The processing element number of the processing element in which a particular array element is stored is computed as a function of a linearized index associated with the array element and a distribution specification associated with the array. In addition, a local memory address associated with the array element is computed as a function of the linearized index and the distribution specification.