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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2017
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Andrew R Putnam, Seattle, WA (US);
Douglas Christopher Burger, Bellevue, WA (US);
Stephen F Heil, Sammammish, WA (US);
Eric S. Chung, Woodinville, WA (US);
Adrian M. Caulfield, Woodinville, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Dynamic power routing is utilized to route power from other components, which are transitioned to lower power consuming states, in order to accommodate more efficient processing of computational tasks by hardware accelerators, thereby staying within electrical power thresholds that would otherwise not have accommodated simultaneous full-power operation of the other components and such hardware accelerators. Once a portion of a workflow is being processed by hardware accelerators, the workflow, or the hardware accelerators, can be self-throttling to stay within power thresholds, or they can be throttled by independent coordinators, including device-centric and system-wide coordinators. Additionally, predictive mechanisms can be utilized to obtain available power in advance, by proactively transitioning other components to reduced power consuming states, or reactive mechanisms can be utilized to only transition components to reduced power consuming states when a specific need for increased hardware accelerator power is identified.