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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2013
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Charles J. Archer, Rochester, MN (US);
Michael A. Blocksome, Rochester, MN (US);
Amanda E. Randles, Cambridge, MA (US);
Joseph D. Ratterman, Seattle, WA (US);
Brian E. Smith, Knoxville, TN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for thread selection during context switching on a plurality of compute nodes that includes: executing, by a compute node, an application using a plurality of threads of execution, including executing one or more of the threads of execution; selecting, by the compute node from a plurality of available threads of execution for the application, a next thread of execution in dependence upon power characteristics for each of the available threads; determining, by the compute node, whether criteria for a thread context switch are satisfied; and performing, by the compute node, the thread context switch if the criteria for a thread context switch are satisfied, including executing the next thread of execution.