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Generation of hardware thermal profiles for a set of processors

  • US 7,756,666 B2
  • Filed: 04/18/2008
  • Issued: 07/13/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/29/2005
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A data processing system comprising:

  • a bus system;

    a communications system connected to the bus system;

    a memory connected to the bus system, wherein the memory includes a set of instructions; and

    a processing unit connected to the bus system, wherein the processing unit executes the set of instructions to sample a thermal state of a set of processors during execution of a set of workloads to create sampled information;

    store the sampled information in a data structure; and

    generate a thermal index based on the sampled information stored in the data structure and thermal characteristics of the set of processors, wherein the thermal characteristics of the set of processors are indicated by at least one thermal sensor, and wherein the thermal index is a thermal efficiency of the set of processors for the set of workloads.

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