Replacing mechanical/magnetic components with a supercomputer

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10324887-B2
Application number	US-201715810856-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 13, 2017
Priority date	Sep 22, 2017
Publication date	Jun 18, 2019
Grant date	Jun 18, 2019

Abstract

A supercomputer comprising a memory device and a plurality of interconnected hardware processors capable of performing parallel processing is coupled to a mainframe computer comprising one or more hardware processors. The supercomputer functions as a part of the mainframe computer's memory hierarchy.

First claim

We claim:

1. A method comprising:
connecting a supercomputer to a mainframe computer, the supercomputer having faster processing capability than the mainframe computer in data processing;
running a first application on the mainframe computer;
storing data on the supercomputer, the data for producing a result for the first application; and
invoking from the first application running on the mainframe, an interface command to invoke a second application on the supercomputer,
the supercomputer functioning as a part of the mainframe computer's memory hierarchy,
wherein the first application invokes the second application to search the data and generate a model based on the data, the result produced based on the model, the second application communicating the result to the first application, wherein the supercomputer is placed within a threshold distance of the mainframe computer such that a latency in receiving the result by the first application from the supercomputer does not exceed a threshold latency value.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the supercomputer and the mainframe computer are connected via an Ethernet link.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the interface command comprises Customer Information Control System (CICS) commands.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the data comprises inventory data of an organization, and the second application computes dynamic price lists.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Ward Thomas
• Fitch Blake

Classifications

• G06F9/541

  via adapters, e.g. between incompatible applications · CPC title

• G06Q10/087

  Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders · CPC title

• G06F13/4208 Primary

  being a system bus, e.g. VME bus, Futurebus, Multibus · CPC title

• G06F9/5027

  the resource being a machine, e.g. CPUs, Servers, Terminals · CPC title

• G06Q30/0283

  Price estimation or determination · CPC title