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US 2013/0159742 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.
Claims18
A method comprising:
- processing a computational load by a first cluster of at least t associated cores of a multi-core processor;
- and
- 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 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 in order to trade levels of activity and power of the first cluster of the multi-core processor for increased activity in the second cluster of the multi-core processor.
A method comprising:
- measuring a temperature of at least one portion of a multi-core processor;
- and
- dynamically reducing an activity of a first cluster of at least two associated cores of the multi-core processor and increasing an activity of a second a second cluster of at least two associated cores of the multi-core processor in response to the measuring.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.