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INETCO wins patent for efficiency-driving algorithm

March 6, 2012

INETCO Systems Limited has been awarded U.S.Patent 8095727 for the development of a multi-reader, multi-writer lock-free ring buffer algorithm, the company announced today in a press release. The algorithm provides developers with a real-time architectural solution for high performance operating systems and Cloud-based application environments.

The majority of today’s consumer electronics, workstations, database servers, high performance operating systems, distributed and Cloud-based application architectures now contain multiple processor cores on which multiple software processes and threads operate in parallel. For effective operations, these systems must possess efficient mechanisms to pass information between processes and to control access to shared resources such as memory, data storage, network, timers, queues, logs and applications.

Blocking one process while waiting for another to complete is inefficient and prone to problems with “deadlock” where a process may never resume. It results in slow transaction response times, IT performance bottlenecks, and degradation of the end customer experience. The INETCO algorithm multiple programs, processes, threads or cores can access a common resource simultaneously, eliminating high-concurrency IT performance issues.

INETCO intends to integrate its patented algorithm within its high performance transaction monitoring product, INETCO Insight, enabling a high volume of transactions to be recorded to the Insight data store in real-time and to be simultaneously processed by multiple product components. 

"Ensuring rapid, non-blocking exchange of control and data between software components is a major problem in multi-core, multi-thread software environments,” said Angus Telfer, CTO of INETCO. “The INETCO solution to this problem, applicable for both multiple readers and multiple writers, allows for optimal use of available processing cycles, thus increasing the performance achievable for technologies using it."

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