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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2011

Filed:

Feb. 28, 2006
Applicants:

Xavier Vera, Barcelona, ES;

Osman Unsal, Barcelona, ES;

Oguz Ergin, Ankara, TR;

Jaume Abella, Barcelona, ES;

Antonio González, Barcelona, ES;

Inventors:

Xavier Vera, Barcelona, ES;

Osman Unsal, Barcelona, ES;

Oguz Ergin, Ankara, TR;

Jaume Abella, Barcelona, ES;

Antonio González, Barcelona, ES;

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for identifying available cores of a many-core processor, allocating a first subset of the cores to an enabled state and a second subset of the cores to a spare state, and storing information regarding the allocation in a storage. The allocation of cores to the enables state may be based on a temperature-aware algorithm, in certain embodiments. Other embodiments are described and claimed.


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