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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2009
Yuan Lin, Cupertino, CA (US);
Xi Qian, Beijing, CN;
Oracle America Inc., Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for creating and executing tasks within a multithreaded application composed according to the OpenMP application programming interface (API). The method includes generating threads within a parallel region of the application, and setting a counter equal to the quantity of the threads. The method also includes, for each one of the plurality of threads, assigning an implicit task, and executing the implicit task. Further, the method includes, upon encountering a task construct, during execution of the implicit tack, for an explicit asynchronous task generating the explicit asynchronous task, adding the explicit asynchronous task to a first task queue, where the first task queue corresponds to the one of the plurality of threads; and incrementing the counter by one.