Near memory accelerator

1. A computer implemented method for operating a computing system, the computing system comprising a host processor, an access processor having a command port, a near memory accelerator and a memory unit; the method comprising the steps of:

running a software program on the host processor;

offloading an acceleration task of the software program to the near memory accelerator;

providing, via the command port, a first communication path for direct communication between the software program and the near memory accelerator and a second communication path for indirect communication between the software program and the near memory accelerator via the access processor;

writing, by the software program, operand data and/or control data of the acceleration task into the command port; and

reading, by the software program, result data of the acceleration task from the command port.

2. The computer implemented method according to claim 1 , the method further comprising:

reading, by the near memory accelerator, data of the acceleration task directly from the command port; and

writing, by the near memory accelerator, data of the acceleration task directly to the command port.

3. The computer implemented method according to claim 1 , the method further comprising:

reading, by the access processor, data of the acceleration task from the command port;

providing, by the access processor, the data of the acceleration task to the near memory accelerator;

receiving, by the access processor, data of the acceleration task; and

writing, by the access processor, the data of the acceleration task to the command port.