Apportioning a work unit to execute in parallel in a heterogeneous environment

1. Field of the Invention A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for a computer-implemented apportioning system. Work is distributed to processors in a multi-processor system. Initially, during bind-time, a scaling factor is determined for each processor. The scaling factor represents relat...

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Main Authors Blank, Ted Eric, Dang, Tammie, Lin, Fen-Ling, Nakagawa, Randy Mitchell, Smith, Bryan Frederick, Sutton, Craig Leonard, Swank, Darren Benjamin, Tie, Hong Sang, Tonelli, Dino Carlo, Tsang, Annie S, Yang, Kouhorng Allen, Zeidenstein, Kathryn Ruth
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LanguageEnglish
Published 17.12.2002
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Summary:1. Field of the Invention A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for a computer-implemented apportioning system. Work is distributed to processors in a multi-processor system. Initially, during bind-time, a scaling factor is determined for each processor. The scaling factor represents relative processing power in relation to each other processor. Then, portions of a total amount of work are distributed to each processor based on the determined scaling factor of that processor and a determined amount of work for an average processor.