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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2002
Filed:
May. 28, 1998
James Mathew Rehg, Arlington, MA (US);
Kathleen Knobe, Lexington, MA (US);
Rishiyur S. Nikhil, Arlington, MA (US);
Umakishore Ramachandran, Tucker, GA (US);
Compaq Information Technologies Group, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A system for integrating task and data parallelism in a dynamic application that includes at least one task for processing an input data stream to produce an output data stream replaces the at least one task with the following components. A splitter task for partitioning the input data stream into a plurality of data chunks. A plurality of worker tasks for processing subsets of the data chunks, each worker task being an instance of the at least one task, and a joiner task combining the processed data chunks to produce the output data stream.