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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 09, 2010
Krishna V. Palem, Houston, TX (US);
Lakshmi Narasimhan Chakrapani, Houston, TX (US);
Avinash Lingamneni, Houston, TX (US);
Krishna V. Palem, Houston, TX (US);
Lakshmi Narasimhan Chakrapani, Houston, TX (US);
Avinash Lingamneni, Houston, TX (US);
William Marsh Rice University, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
In general, in one aspect, the invention relates to a computer readable medium including software instructions which, when executed by a processor, perform a method, the method including receiving a first method call from an application, wherein the first method call is associated with a first application component; obtaining a first application component error tolerance (ACET) value associated with the first method call; determining, using the first ACET value and a first inexact amount value (IAV) of a first inexact computing architecture (ICA) processor, that the first ICA processor is available to execute the first method call; and processing the first method call using the first ICA processor.