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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2019

Filed:

Sep. 21, 2016
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Yuk L. Chan, Rochester, NY (US);

Andrew P. Wack, Millbrook, NY (US);

Peter B. Yocom, LaGrangeville, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/24 (2006.01); G06F 9/445 (2018.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 8/654 (2018.01); G06F 9/4401 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44505 (2013.01); G06F 8/654 (2018.02); G06F 9/5083 (2013.01); G06F 9/4411 (2013.01);
Abstract

Examples of techniques for reprogramming a field programmable device on demand are disclosed. According to aspects of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method may include: identifying a first field programmable device as being over utilized; responsive to identifying the first field programmable device that is over utilized, identifying a second field programmable device that is underutilized; determining whether to reprogram the second field programmable device; responsive to determining to reconfigure the second field programmable device, stopping the second field programmable device from performing a workload; moving the workload to another field programmable device configured to perform the workload; and reprogramming the second field programmable device.


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