The present invention relates to means, a method and a computer program product of administrating in a computer system a global data element shared by a multitude of exploiters within said computer system for reducing contention among said exploiters....http://www.google.de/patents/US6430659?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6430659 - Method and means for increasing performance of multiprocessor computer systems by reducing accesses to global memory locations through the use of quanta
