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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2016
Filed:
May. 13, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Theresa M. Brown, Tucson, AZ (US);
Nicolas M. Clayton, Warrington, GB;
Lokesh M. Gupta, Tucson, AZ (US);
Theodore T. Harris, Jr., Tucson, AZ (US);
Brian D. Hatfield, Tucson, AZ (US);
Matthew Sanchez, Tucson, AZ (US);
David B. Schreiber, Tucson, AZ (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for concurrently processing parts of cells of a data structure with multiple processes. Information is provided to indicate a partitioning of the cells of the data structure into a plurality of parts, and having a cursor pointing to a cell in the part. Processes concurrently process different parts of the data structure by performing: determining from the cursor for the part one of the cells in the part to process; processing the cells from the cursor to determine whether to process the unit of work corresponding to the cell; and setting the cursor to identify one of the cells from which processing is to continue in a subsequent iteration in response to processing the units of work for a plurality of the processed cells.