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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2016
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Arkaprava Basu, Austin, TX (US);
Dmitri Yudanov, Austin, TX (US);
David A. Roberts, Boxborough, MA (US);
Mitesh R. Meswani, Austin, TX (US);
Sergey Blagodurov, Bellevue, WA (US);
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and processing apparatus for accelerating program processing is provided that includes a plurality of processors configured to process a plurality of tasks of a program and a controller. The controller is configured to determine, from the plurality of tasks being processed by the plurality of processors, a task being processed on a first processor to be a lagging task causing a delay in execution of one or more other tasks of the plurality of tasks. The controller is further configured to provide the determined lagging task to a second processor to be executed by the second processor to accelerate execution of the lagging task.