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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2011
Brian Mitchell Bass, Apex, NC (US);
Bartholomew Blaner, Underhill, VT (US);
George William Daly, Jr., Austin, TX (US);
Jeffrey Haskell Derby, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Ross Boyd Leavens, Cary, NC (US);
Joseph Gerald Mcdonald, Raleigh, NC (US);
Brian Mitchell Bass, Apex, NC (US);
Bartholomew Blaner, Underhill, VT (US);
George William Daly, Jr., Austin, TX (US);
Jeffrey Haskell Derby, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Ross Boyd Leavens, Cary, NC (US);
Joseph Gerald McDonald, Raleigh, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer system having a plurality of processing resources, including a sub-system for scheduling and dispatching processing jobs to a plurality of hardware accelerators, the subsystem further comprising a job requestor, for requesting jobs having bounded and varying latencies to be executed on the hardware accelerators; a queue controller to manage processing job requests directed to a plurality of hardware accelerators; and multiple hardware queues for dispatching jobs to the plurality of hardware acceleration engines, each queue having a dedicated head of queue entry, dynamically sharing a pool of queue entries, having configurable queue depth limits, and means for removing one or more jobs across all queues.