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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2012
Applicants:
Rui Hou, Beijing, CN;
Yi GE, Beijing, CN;
Kun Wang, Beijing, CN;
Zhen BO Zhu, Beijing, CN;
Inventors:
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/00 (2006.01); G06F 15/76 (2006.01); G06F 9/48 (2006.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/4843 (2013.01); G06F 9/54 (2013.01); G06F 2209/509 (2013.01);
Abstract
Provided is a hardware accelerator and method, central processing unit, and computing device. A hardware accelerating method includes, in response to a request for a new task issued by a hardware thread, accelerating processing of the new task and producing a processing result for the task. A predicting step predicts total waiting time of the new task for returning to a specified address associated with the hardware thread.