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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:
Sep. 15, 2015

Filed:

Oct. 21, 2009
Applicants:

Diane G. Flemming, Austin, TX (US);

Octavian F. Herescu, Austin, TX (US);

William A. Maron, Austin, TX (US);

Mysore S. Srinivas, Austin, TX (US);

Inventors:

Diane G. Flemming, Austin, TX (US);

Octavian F. Herescu, Austin, TX (US);

William A. Maron, Austin, TX (US);

Mysore S. Srinivas, Austin, TX (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/5088 (2013.01); G06F 9/45516 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 2009/4557 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45579 (2013.01);
Abstract

A data processing system includes physical computing resources that include a plurality of processors. The plurality of processors include a first processor having a first processor type and a second processor having a second processor type that is different than the first processor type. The data processing system also includes a resource manager to assign portions of the physical computing resources to be used when executing logical partitions. The resource manager is configured to assign a first portion of the physical computing resources to a logical partition, to determine characteristics of the logical partition, the characteristics including a memory footprint characteristic, to assign a second portion of the physical computing resources based on the characteristics of the logical partition, and to dispatch the logical partition to execute using the second portion of the physical computing resources.


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