TECHNOLOGIES FOR FAST SYNCHRONIZATION BARRIERS FOR MANY-CORE PROCESSING

• Main Author: ROBISON ARCH D
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 16.06.2016
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS

Technologies for multithreaded synchronization including a computing device having a many-core processor. Each processor core includes multiple hardware threads. A hardware thread executed by a processor core enters a synchronization barrier and synchronizes with other hardware threads executed by the same processor core. After synchronization, the hardware thread synchronizes with a source hardware thread that may be executed by a different processor core. The source hardware thread may be assigned using an n-way shuffle of all hardware threads, where n is the number of hardware threads per processor core. The hardware thread resynchronizes with the other hardware threads executed by the same processor core. The hardware thread alternately synchronizes with the source hardware thread and the other hardware threads executed by the same processor core until all hardware threads have synchronized. The computing device may reduce a Boolean value over the synchronization barrier. Other embodiments are described and claimed.