Patents by Inventor Thomas Liebsch

Thomas Liebsch has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20070168695
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for re-utilizing partially failed compute resources in a massively parallel super computer system. In the preferred embodiments the compute node comprises a number of clock domains that can be enabled separately. When an error in a compute node is detected, and the failure is not in network communication blocks, a clock enable circuit enables the clocks to the network communication blocks only to allow the partially failed compute node to be re-utilized as a network resource. The computer system can then continue to operate with only slightly diminished performance and thereby improve performance and perceived overall reliability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2006
    Publication date: July 19, 2007
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dong Chen, Alan Gara, Philip Heidelberger, Thomas Liebsch, Burkhard Steinmacher-Burow, Pavlos Vranas