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Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2017

Filed:

Aug. 17, 2015
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Brian M. Bass, Apex, NC (US);

Bartholomew Blaner, Underhill Center, VT (US);

George W. Daly, Jr., Austin, TX (US);

Jeffrey H. Derby, Chapel Hill, NC (US);

Ross B. Leavens, Cary, NC (US);

Joseph G. McDonald, Raleigh, NC (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 9/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/5038 (2013.01); G06F 9/4843 (2013.01); G06F 9/5027 (2013.01); G06F 2209/5021 (2013.01);
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.


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