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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2008
Michael E. Aho, Rochester, MN (US);
James E. Carey, Rochester, MN (US);
Gordon G. Stewart, Rochester, MN (US);
Michael E. Aho, Rochester, MN (US);
James E. Carey, Rochester, MN (US);
Gordon G. Stewart, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Data processing in a hybrid computing environment that includes a host computer having a host computer architecture; an accelerator having an accelerator architecture, the accelerator architecture optimized, with respect to the host computer architecture, for speed of execution of a particular class of computing functions; the host computer and the accelerator adapted to one another for data communications by a system level message passing module; and a host application process executing on the host computer. Data processing such a hybrid computing environment includes starting, at the behest of the host application process, a thread of execution on the accelerator; returning, by the system level message passing module to the host application process, a process identifier ('PID') for the thread of execution; and managing, by the host application process, the thread of execution on the accelerator as though the thread of execution were a thread of execution on the host computer.