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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2013
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Michael Blocksome, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Sameer Kumar, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Amith R. Mamidala, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Douglas Miller, Rochester, NY (US);
Joseph D. Ratterman, Seattle, WA (US);
GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC., Grand Cayman, KY;
Abstract
A system and method for enhancing barrier collective synchronization on a computer system comprises a computer system including a data storage device. The computer system includes a program stored in the data storage device and steps of the program being executed by a processor. The system includes providing a plurality of communicators for storing state information for a barrier algorithm. Each communicator designates a master core in a multi-processor environment of the computer system. The system allocates or designates one counter for each of a plurality of threads. The system configures a table with a number of entries equal to the maximum number of threads. The system sets a table entry with an ID associated with a communicator when a process thread initiates a collective. The system determines an allocated or designated counter by searching entries in the table.