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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2011
Ivan Jellinek, Hillsboro Beach, FL (US);
Alberto Poggesi, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Anthony C. Sumrall, San Jose, CA (US);
Thomas A. Thackrey, San Jose, CA (US);
Ivan Jellinek, Hillsboro Beach, FL (US);
Alberto Poggesi, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Anthony C. Sumrall, San Jose, CA (US);
Thomas A. Thackrey, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Work units are transparently offloaded from a main processor to offload processing systems for execution. For a particular work unit, a suitable offload processing system is selected to execute the work unit. This includes determining the requirements of the work unit, including, for instance, the hardware and software requirements; matching those requirements against a set of offload processing systems with an arbitrary set of available resources; and determining if a suitable offload processing system is available. If a suitable offload processing system is available, the work unit is scheduled to execute on that offload processing system with no changes to the work unit itself. Otherwise, the work unit may execute on the main processor or wait to be executed on an offload processing system.