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20100162023 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF POWER MANAGEMENT OF PROCESSOR - A processing platform and a method of controlling power consumption of a central processing unit of the processing platform are presented. By operating the method the processing platform is able to set an upper performance state limit and a lower performance state limit. The upper performance state limit is based on a central processing unit activity rate value and the lower performance state limit is based on a minimum require of the operating system to perform operating system tasks. The performance state values are varying within a range of the lower and upper limits according to a power management policy. | 06-24-2010 |
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20140040643 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF POWER MANAGMENT OF PROCESSOR - A processing platform and a method of controlling power consumption of a central processing unit of the processing platform are presented. By operating the method the processing platform is able to set an upper performance state limit and a lower performance state limit. The upper performance state limit is based on a central processing unit activity rate value and the lower performance state limit is based on a minimum require of the operating system to perform operating system tasks. The performance state values are varying within a range of the lower and upper limits according to a power management policy. | 02-06-2014 |
20140129808 | MIGRATING TASKS BETWEEN ASYMMETRIC COMPUTING ELEMENTS OF A MULTI-CORE PROCESSOR - In one embodiment, the present invention includes a multicore processor having first and second cores to independently execute instructions, the first core visible to an operating system (OS) and the second core transparent to the OS and heterogeneous from the first core. A task controller, which may be included in or coupled to the multicore processor, can cause dynamic migration of a first process scheduled by the OS to the first core to the second core transparently to the OS. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 05-08-2014 |
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20110246804 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERRUPT POWER MANAGEMENT - Embodiments of a method and apparatus are described for low power operation of a multi-core processing system. An apparatus may comprise, for example, an affinitization management module operative to detect a media application operative to execute on one or more of a plurality of processor cores of a multi-core processor, dynamically select a subset of processor cores of the multi-core processor, and affinitize the media application to execute on the subset of processor cores. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 10-06-2011 |
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20120166842 | THERMALLY DOWNWARD SCALABLE SYSTEM - An apparatus may comprise a power management system. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 06-28-2012 |
20120173037 | EXTENDED THERMAL MANAGEMENT - A method for managing thermal condition of a thermal zone that includes multiple thermally controllable components include determining thermal relationship between the components and reducing temperature of a first component by reducing thermal dissipation of a second component. | 07-05-2012 |
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20140189398 | TECHNIQUES FOR PLATFORM DUTY CYCLING - Various embodiments are generally directed to an apparatus, method and other techniques for detecting active and semi-active workloads during execution on a platform processing device and enabling a duty cycle process to reduce thermal output and power consumption, and align unaligned activity. In various embodiments, the duty cycle processing may be enabled during an active workload when thermal output or power consumption is above a thermal threshold or power consumption threshold that is below an efficient operating point for the platform processing device. The duty cycle processing may also be enabled during semi-active workloads when the workload causes the platform processing device to be underutilized and unaligned. The duty cycle processing may comprise enabling a forced idle period for the platform processing device. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 07-03-2014 |
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20140323946 | PHOSPHORS AND SCINTILLATORS FOR LIGHT STIMULATION WITHIN A MEDIUM - A system and method for light stimulation within a medium. The system has a reduced-voltage x-ray source configured to generate x-rays from a peak applied cathode voltage at or below 105 kVp, and a plurality of energy-emitting particles in the medium which, upon radiation from the x-ray source, radiate at a first lower energy than the x-ray source to interact with at least one photoactivatable agent in the medium. The method introduces the plurality of energy-emitting particles into the medium, radiates the energy-emitting particles in the medium with x-rays generated from a peak applied cathode voltage at or below 105 kVp; and emits a lower energy than the x-ray source to interact with the medium or with at least one photoactivatable agent in the medium. | 10-30-2014 |
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