System and Method for Input Data Load Adaptive Parallel Processing

A system for prioritizing pieces of software programs, said pieces referred to as a set of executables, wherein said executables are identifiable with ID numbers from 0 through a maximum number of the executables less 1, the system comprising:

• a subsystem for buffering input data at an array of executable specific input port buffers, wherein a given buffer within said array of buffers such input data that is directed to the executable associated with the given buffer;
• a subsystem for determining, from said array of buffers, respective numbers of non-empty buffers associated with each of the executables;
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• a subsystem for ranking the executables in their descending execution priority order at least in part according to their determined descending numbers of non-empty buffers, wherein the subsystem for determining of the respective numbers of non-empty buffers for the executables involves logic for forming:
• (1) executable specific 1st phase bit vectors whose bits at a given index number x indicate whether a given executable has x non-empty buffers, and
• (2) from bits at equal index values of the 1st phase bit vectors of the executables, a row of 2nd phase bit vectors, so that a bit at index y of the 2nd phase bit vector at index x of said row indicates whether an executable identifiable with ID number y within the set has x non-empty buffers.

A method for prioritizing pieces of software programs, said pieces referred to as a set of executables, wherein said executables are identifiable with ID numbers from 0 through a maximum number of the executables less 1, the method comprising:

• a subsystem for buffering input data at an array of executable specific input port buffers, wherein a given buffer within said array of buffers such input data that is directed to the executable associated with the given buffer;
• a subsystem for determining, from said array of buffers, respective numbers of non-empty buffers associated with each of the executables, at least in part through, for each possible number x of the non-empty buffers per an executable, identifying which, if any, of the executables have x non-empty buffers;
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• a subsystem for ranking the executables in their descending execution priority order at least in part according to their determined descending numbers of non-empty buffers.