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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 15, 2001
David K. Poulsen, Champaign, IL (US);
Sanjiv M. Shah, Champaign, IL (US);
Paul M. Petersen, Champaign, IL (US);
Grant E. Haab, Mahomet, IL (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for a atomic operation is described. A method comprises receiving a first program unit in a parallel computing environment, the first program unit including a memory update operation to be performed atomically, the memory update operation having an operand, the operand being of a data-type and of a data size, and translating the first program unit into a second program unit, the second program unit to associate the memory update operation with a set of one or more low-level instructions upon determining that the data size of the operand is supported by the set of low-level instructions, the set of low-level instructions to ensure atomicity of the memory update operation.