System and method for distributed multiprocessor communications

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PATENT NO 5920714
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08927507

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In a tightly coupled communication scheme based on a common shared resource circuit having a plurality of shared information registers and adapted particularly to a multiprocessing system having 2.sup.N CPUs, a method of performing a read-and-modify instruction. Data stored in a shared information register is read from the shared register, captured in a read and increment circuit and sent to the processor issuing the read-and-modify instruction. At the same time, a mathematical function is performed on the captured data is incremented and the result is written back into the shared information register.

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SILICON GRAPHICS INTERNATIONAL CORP46600 LANDING PARKWAY FREMONT CA 94538

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Schiffleger, Alan J Chippewa Falls, WI 17 596

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