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US 2003/0115242 A1Published application
Computing system capable of reducing power consumtion by distributing execution of instruction across multiple processors and method therefore
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorMatthew A. Hayduk
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Abstract
Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a portable communication device includes multiple processors having a monitor. The monitors of the processors may consult to determine which processor is best suited to execute a set of instructions.
Claims27
An apparatus comprising:
- a first processor to execute a first set of instructions;
- a second processor to execute a second set of instructions;
- a first monitor adapted to determine available performance capability of the first processor while executing the first set of instructions;
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- a second monitor communicatively coupled to the first monitor and adapted to determine available performance capability of the second processor while executing the second set of instructions, wherein the apparatus is adapted to execute a third set of instructions on the first processor when the available performance capability of the second processor is less than an acceptable performance level to execute the third set of instructions.
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A method comprising:
- polling a first processor to determine if the first processor has sufficient capacity to execute a first set of instructions when a second processor does not have sufficient capacity to execute the first set of instructions.
An article comprising a storage medium having stored thereon instructions, that, when executed by a computing platform, results in:
- polling a first processor to determine if the first processor has sufficient capacity to execute a first set of instructions when a second processor does not have sufficient capacity to execute the first set of instructions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.