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Demand response system incorporating a graphical processing unit

  • US 9,137,050 B2
  • Filed: 11/18/2011
  • Issued: 09/15/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/17/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A demand response management processing system for a utility provider or an intermediary of a utility provider, the system comprising:

  • a demand response (DR) server of a utility provider or an intermediary of a utility provider;

    one or more DR resources connected to the DR server, wherein the one or more DR resources are from a customer of the utility provider; and

    wherein;

    the DR server comprises;

    a controller; and

    an individual graphic processing unit (GPU) connected to the controller; and

    wherein the individual GPU comprises a plurality of central processing units (CPUs) on a single chip;

    the one or more DR resources have components which are processed by two or more CPUs of the plurality of the CPUs, respectively, where a component comprises DR logic and DR logic for each of the one or more DR resources is processed by a CPU of the plurality of CPUs;

    processing DR logic of a DR resource into signal values for DR signals to each DR resource is an operation;

    each operation assigned to a CPU of the plurality of CPUs is a thread execution; and

    a plurality of operations assigned to a plurality of CPUs, respectively, comprise parallel execution threads.

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