Patent attributes
Representative apparatus, method, and system embodiments are disclosed for configurable computing. A representative system includes an asynchronous packet network; a plurality of configurable circuits arranged in an array, each configurable circuit coupled to the asynchronous packet network and adapted to perform a plurality of computations; and a dispatch interface circuit adapted to partition the plurality of configurable circuits into one or more separate partitions of configurable circuits and to load one or more computation kernels into each partition of configurable circuits. The dispatch interface circuit may load balance across the partitions of configurable circuits by starting threads for execution in the partition having the highest number of available thread identifiers. The dispatch interface may also assert a partition enable signal to merge the one or more separate partitions and assert a stop signal to all configurable circuits of the one or more separate partitions of configurable circuits.