Appeal No. 96-3697
Serial No. 08/255,304
program to effect a reassignment of data items. Claim 1 is
illustrative and reads as follows:
For use in connection with a computer system having
a plurality of processing elements, each including a memory,
each memory including a plurality of storage locations for
storing a data item, each storage location within the computer
being identified by an address comprising a plurality of
address bits assigned to a corresponding plurality of address
bit positions, a selected number of said address bit positions
constituting a global portion and others of said address bit
positions constituting a local portion, with the address bits
in the address bit positions of the global portion of an
address identifying a processing element and the address bits
in the address bits of the local portion of the address
identifying a storage location within the memory of the
processing element identified by the address bits in address
bit positions of the global portion, a system for generating a
program to facilitate use of a predetermined set of tools to
effect a reassignment of data items among processing elements
and storage location to, in turn, provide a predetermined
rearrangement of address bit positions from an initial
arrangement of address bit positions to a final arrangement of
address bit positions, said system comprising:
a global processing portion for generating a global
program portion of said program to enable use of said tools to
effect a reassignment of data items as among said processing
elements to, in turn, effect a rearrangement of address bits
in address bit positions from said initial arrangement to an
intermediate arrangement in which the address bit positions in
the global portion correspond to the global portion of the
final arrangement; and
B. a local processing portion for generating a
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