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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2019
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Anthony T. Sofia, Hopewell-Junction, NY (US);
Matthias Klein, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Jonathan D. Bradbury, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Peter Sutton, Lagrangeville, NY (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer system includes a plurality of hardware processors, and a hardware accelerator. A first processor among the plurality of processor runs an application that issues a data compression request to compress or decompress a data stream. The hardware accelerator selectively operates in different modes to compresses or decompresses the data stream. Based on a selected mode, the hardware accelerator can utilize a different number of processors among the plurality of hardware to compress or decompress the data stream.