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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 25, 2023
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2021
Applicant:
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Assignee:
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/65 (2018.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/65 (2013.01); G06F 9/5083 (2013.01); G06F 2209/509 (2013.01);
Abstract
In a symmetric hardware accelerator system, an initial hardware accelerator is selected for an upgrade of firmware. The initial and other hardware accelerators handle workloads that have been balanced across the hardware accelerators. Workloads are rebalanced by directing workloads having low CPU utilization to the initial hardware accelerator. A CPU fallback is conducted of the workloads of the initial hardware accelerator to the CPU. While the CPU is handling the workloads, firmware of the initial hardware accelerator is upgraded.