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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 24, 1997
Peter Richard Badovinatz, Kingston, NY (US);
Marion Lee Blount, Mahopac, NY (US);
Larry Bert Brenner, Austin, TX (US);
Tushar Deepak Chandra, Elmsford, NY (US);
Ajei Sarat Gopal, Fort Lee, NJ (US);
Dennis Duane Jurgensen, Hurley, NY (US);
Marc Adam Kaplan, Katonah, NY (US);
Orvalle Theodore Kirby, Pleasant Valley, NY (US);
John Arthur Pershing, Jr, Buchanan, NY (US);
John Joseph Turek, South Nyack, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
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.