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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 05, 2004
Applicants:
Anton Blanchard, Marrickville, AU;
Milton Devon Miller, Ii, Austin, TX (US);
Todd Alan Venton, Austin, TX (US);
Inventors:
Anton Blanchard, Marrickville, AU;
Milton Devon Miller, II, Austin, TX (US);
Todd Alan Venton, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method, apparatus and computer instructions for discovering hardware nodes having a hierarchical organization. A subset of the hardware nodes in the data processing system is initialized prior to loading an operating system supporting parallel threads. In response to loading the operating system, thread for each hardware node discovered below a known hardware node is created to form a set of threads.