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Article: California Inventors Develop Atomic Operations with Cell Processors
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- July 8, 2008
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 8 -- Attila Vass and Tatsuya Iwamoto, both of Foster City, Calif., James E. Marr of Burlingame, Calif., and John P. Bates of Redwood City, Calif., have developed cell processors.
An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "Atomic operations may be implemented on a processor system having a main memory and two or more processors including a power processor element (PPE) and a synergistic processor element (SPE) that operate on different sized register lines. A main memory address containing a primitive is divided into a parity byte and two or more portions, wherein the parity byte includes at least one bit. A value of the ...