A computer system performs a coarse-grained dependency checking between concurrently executed jobs that share a memory. First and second jobs are defined, each having a set of shared individually addressable data items stored in a corresponding set of locations within a memory. The set of locations are...http://www.google.ca/patents/US6665708?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6665708 - Coarse grained determination of data dependence between parallel executed jobs in an information processing system
