An apparatus and method provide simultaneous local and global addressing capabilities in a computer system. A global address space is defined that may be accessed by all processes. In addition, each process has a local address space that is local (and therefore available) only to that process. An address...http://www.google.de/patents/US6574721?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6574721 - Apparatus and method for providing simultaneous local and global addressing using software to distinguish between local and global addresses