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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 24, 1998
Ted Eric Blank, San Jose, CA (US);
Tammie Dang, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Fen-Ling Lin, San Jose, CA (US);
Randy Mitchell Nakagawa, San Jose, CA (US);
Bryan Frederick Smith, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Craig Leonard Sutton, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Darren Benjamin Swank, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Hong Sang Tie, San Jose, CA (US);
Dino Carlo Tonelli, Marlboro, NY (US);
Annie S. Tsang, Saratoga, CA (US);
Kouhorng Allen Yang, Saratoga, CA (US);
Kathryn Ruth Zeidenstein, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for a computer-implemented apportioning system. Work is distributed to processors in a multi-processor system. Initially, during bind-time, a scaling factor is determined for each processor. The scaling factor represents relative processing power in relation to each other processor. Then, portions of a total amount of work are distributed to each processor based on the determined scaling factor of that processor and a determined amount of work for an average processor.