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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2012
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Raymond K. Harney, Rochester, MN (US);
John M. Santosuosso, Rochester, MN (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06T 1/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/5011 (2013.01); G06T 1/20 (2013.01);
Abstract
An accelerator work allocation mechanism determines at run-time which functions to allocate to a hardware accelerator based on a defined accelerator policy, and based on an analysis performed at run-time. The analysis includes reading the accelerator policy, and determining whether a particular function satisfies the accelerator policy. If so, the function is allocated to the hardware accelerator. If not, the function is allocated to the processor.