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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2003
Keith Farkas, San Carlos, CA (US);
Norman P. Jouppi, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Robert N. Mayo, Mountain View, CA (US);
Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Keith Farkas, San Carlos, CA (US);
Norman P. Jouppi, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Robert N. Mayo, Mountain View, CA (US);
Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A computer system for conserving operating power includes a number of computer hardware processor cores that differ amongst themselves in at least in their respective operating power requirements and processing capabilities. A monitor gathers performance metric information from each of the computer hardware processor cores that is specific to a particular run of application software then executing. A workload transfer mechanism transfers the executing application software to a second computer hardware processor core in a search for reduced operating power. A transfer delay mechanism is connected to delay a subsequent transfer of the executing application software if the system operating power may be conserved by such delay.