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US 2010/0077236 A1Published application
Method, system, and apparatus for dynamic thermal management
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsMark A. Trautman, Muralidhar Tirumala
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Abstract
A method, apparatus, article of manufacture, and system, the method including, in some embodiments, processing a computational load by a first core of a multi-core processor, and dynamically distributing at least a portion of the computational load to a second core of the multi-core processor to reduce a power density of the multi-core processor for the processing of the computational load.
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A method comprising:
- processing a computational load by a first cluster of at least two associated cores of a multi-core processor;
- dynamically distributing at least a portion of the computational load to a second cluster of at least two associated cores of the multi-core processor to reduce a power density of the multi-core processor for the processing of the computational load;
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- processing the dynamically distributed portion of the computational load by the second cluster, wherein the dynamically distributing and processing occurs at a frequency greater than a thermal time constant associated with a temperature response of the first cluster and the second cluster.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a multi-core processor including a plurality of cores, the plurality of cores including a first cluster of at least two associated cores to process a computational load and a second cluster of at least two associated cores;
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- a controller to dynamically distribute at least a portion of a the computational load to the second cluster of at least two associated cores of the plurality of cores to reduce a power density of the multi-core processor for the processing of the computational load by processing the dynamically distributed portion of the computational load by the second cluster of at least two associated cores, wherein the dynamically distributing and processing occurs at a frequency greater than a thermal time constant associated with a temperature response of the first cluster and the second clusters.
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An article of manufacture having program instructions embodied thereon, the article of manufacture comprising:
- program instructions for processing a computational load by a first cluster of at least two associated cores of a multi-core processor having a plurality of cores;
- program instructions for dynamically distributing at least a portion of the computational load to at least one a second cluster of at least two associated cores of the plurality of cores to reduce a power density of the multi-core processor for the processing of the computational load;
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- program instructions for processing the dynamically distributed portion of the computational load by the second cluster, wherein the dynamically distributing and processing occurs at a frequency greater than a thermal time constant associated with a temperature response of the first cluster and the second cluster.
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A system comprising:
- a multi-core processor including a plurality of cores, the plurality of cores including a first cluster of at least two associated cores processing a computational load and a second cluster of at least two associated cores;
- a controller to dynamically distribute at least a portion of the computational load to the second cluster of at least two cores of the plurality of cores to reduce a power density of the multi-core processor for the processing of the computational load by processing the dynamically distributed portion of the computational load by the second cluster, wherein the dynamically distributing and processing occurs at a frequency greater than a thermal time constant associated with a temperature response of the first cluster and the second clusters;
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- a double data rate memory.
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A method comprising:
- processing a computational load by a first core of a multi-core processor;
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- throttling a processor pipeline of the multi-core processor to support dynamic power and performance optimizations by dynamically distributing at least a portion of the computational load to a second core of the multi-core processor to reduce a power density of the multi-core processor for the processing of the computational load in order to trade levels of activity and power of the first core of the multi-core processor for increased activity in the second core of the multi-core processor.
A method comprising:
- measuring a temperature of at least one portion of a multi-core processor;
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- dynamically reducing an activity of a first core of the multi-core processor and increasing an activity of a second core of the multi-core processor in response to the measuring.
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