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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2007
Nathan D. Fontenot, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Jacob L. Moilanen, Austin, TX (US);
Joel H. Schopp, Austin, TX (US);
Michael T. Strosaker, Austin, TX (US);
Nathan D. Fontenot, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Jacob L. Moilanen, Austin, TX (US);
Joel H. Schopp, Austin, TX (US);
Michael T. Strosaker, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatus, and products for determining thermal characteristics of instruction sets comprising one or more computer program instructions executed by a computer processor are disclosed that include tracking, in a performance counter, a number of classes of instructions run during execution of a plurality of instruction sets; identifying, for each instruction set, from the performance counter, a number of each class of instructions run during execution of the instruction set; and ranking the instruction sets in dependence upon the number of each class of instructions run during execution of each instruction set and a profile of thermal characteristics of classes of instructions.