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20140181830 | THREAD MIGRATION SUPPORT FOR ARCHITECTUALLY DIFFERENT CORES - According to one embodiment, a processor includes a plurality of processor cores for executing a plurality of threads, a shared storage communicatively coupled to the plurality of processor cores, a power control unit (PCU) communicatively coupled to the plurality of processors to determine, without any software (SW) intervention, if a thread being performed by a first processor core should be migrated to a second processor core, and a migration unit, in response to receiving an instruction from the PCU to migrate the thread, to store at least a portion of architectural state of the first processor core in the shared storage and to migrate the thread to the second processor core, without any SW intervention, such that the second processor core can continue executing the thread based on the architectural state from the shared storage without knowledge of the SW. | 06-26-2014 |
20140189297 | HETERGENEOUS PROCESSOR APPARATUS AND METHOD - A heterogeneous processor architecture is described. For example, a processor according to one embodiment of the invention comprises: a set of two or more small physical processor cores; at least one large physical processor core having relatively higher performance processing capabilities and relatively higher power usage relative to the small physical processor cores; virtual-to-physical (V-P) mapping logic to expose the set of two or more small physical processor cores to software through a corresponding set of virtual cores and to hide the at least one large physical processor core from the software. | 07-03-2014 |
20140189299 | HETERGENEOUS PROCESSOR APPARATUS AND METHOD - A heterogeneous processor architecture is described. For example, a processor according to one embodiment of the invention comprises: a set of large physical processor cores; a set of small physical processor cores having relatively lower performance processing capabilities and relatively lower power usage relative to the large physical processor cores; virtual-to-physical (V-P) mapping logic to expose the set of large physical processor cores to software through a corresponding set of virtual cores and to hide the set of small physical processor core from the software. | 07-03-2014 |
20140189302 | OPTIMAL LOGICAL PROCESSOR COUNT AND TYPE SELECTION FOR A GIVEN WORKLOAD BASED ON PLATFORM THERMALS AND POWER BUDGETING CONSTRAINTS - A processor includes multiple physical cores that support multiple logical cores of different core types, where the core types include a big core type and a small core type. A multi-threaded application includes multiple software threads are concurrently executed by a first subset of logical cores in a first time slot. Based on data gathered from monitoring the execution in the first time slot, the processor selects a second subset of logical cores for concurrent execution of the software threads in a second time slot. Each logical core in the second subset has one of the core types that matches the characteristics of one of the software threads. | 07-03-2014 |
20140189377 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INTELLIGENTLY POWERING HETERGENEOU PROCESSOR COMPONENTS - An intelligent power allocation architecture for a processor. For example, one embodiment of a processor comprises: a plurality of processor components for performing a corresponding plurality of processor functions; a plurality of power planes, each power plane associated with one of the processor components; and a power control unit (PCU) to dynamically adjust power to each of the power planes based on user experience metrics, workload characteristics, and power constraints for a current use of the processor. | 07-03-2014 |
20140189704 | HETERGENEOUS PROCESSOR APPARATUS AND METHOD - A heterogeneous processor architecture is described. For example, a processor according to one embodiment of the invention comprises: a first set of one or more physical processor cores having first processing characteristics; a second set of one or more physical processor cores having second processing characteristics different from the first processing characteristics; virtual-to-physical (V-P) mapping logic to expose a plurality of virtual processors to software, the plurality of virtual processors to appear to the software as a plurality of homogeneous processor cores, the software to allocate threads to the virtual processors as if the virtual processors were homogeneous processor cores; wherein the V-P mapping logic is to map each virtual processor to a physical processor within the first set of physical processor cores or the second set of physical processor cores such that a thread allocated to a first virtual processor by software is executed by a physical processor mapped to the first virtual processor from the first set or the second set of physical processors. | 07-03-2014 |
20140281457 | METHOD FOR BOOTING A HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEM AND PRESENTING A SYMMETRIC CORE VIEW - A heterogeneous processor architecture and a method of booting a heterogeneous processor is described. A processor according to one embodiment comprises: a set of large physical processor cores; a set of small physical processor cores having relatively lower performance processing capabilities and relatively lower power usage relative to the large physical processor cores; and a package unit, to enable a bootstrap processor. The bootstrap processor initializes the homogeneous physical processor cores, while the heterogeneous processor presents the appearance of a homogeneous processor to a system firmware interface. | 09-18-2014 |
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20130117741 | OPTIMIZATION FRAMEWORK FOR REMOTELY EXECUTING A MAINTENANCE OPERATION ON A VIRTUAL MACHINE - Embodiments provide a system for executing a maintenance operation on a virtual machine (VM). The system includes a host computing device including a first VM and a second VM, a maintenance application installed within the first VM, and an optimization framework providing an interface to the maintenance application. The system also includes an optimization server coupled to the maintenance application through the optimization framework. The optimization server is configured to select a maintenance operation to execute on the second VM and command the maintenance application to execute the maintenance operation on the second VM. | 05-09-2013 |
20140282420 | TEST AUTOMATION BOOSTER - A method is provided for a proxy server to assist in the testing of a product. The method includes receiving, from the product, a first request and passing the first request to a server, receiving, from the server, a first response to the first request and passing the first response to the product, recording the first request and the first response, generating one or more second responses from one or more simulated servers based on the first request and the first response, intercepting a second request from the product, in response to the second request, matching the second request to a second response, and sending the second response to the product. | 09-18-2014 |
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20140360713 | LIGHTING SYSTEM WITH THERMAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Lighting systems having unique configurations are provided. For instance, the lighting system may include a light source, a thermal management system and driver electronics, each contained within a housing structure. The light source is configured to provide illumination visible through an opening in the housing structure. The thermal management system is configured to provide an air flow, such as a unidirectional air flow, through the housing structure in order to cool the light source. The driver electronics are configured to provide power to each of the light source and the thermal management system. | 12-11-2014 |
20140362583 | LIGHTING SYSTEM WITH THERMAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Lighting systems having unique configurations are provided. For instance, the lighting system may include a light source, a thermal management system and driver electronics, each contained within a housing structure. The light source is configured to provide illumination visible through an opening in the housing structure. The thermal management system is configured to provide an air flow, such as a unidirectional air flow, through the housing structure in order to cool the light source. The driver electronics are configured to provide power to each of the light source and the thermal management system. | 12-11-2014 |
20140368114 | LIGHTING SYSTEM WITH THERMAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Lighting systems having unique configurations are provided. For instance, the lighting system may include a light source, a thermal management system and driver electronics, each contained within a housing structure. The light source is configured to provide illumination visible through an opening in the housing structure. The thermal management system is configured to provide an air flow, such as a unidirectional air flow, through the housing structure in order to cool the light source. The driver electronics are configured to provide power to each of the light source and the thermal management system. | 12-18-2014 |