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Thread selection according to power characteristics during context switching on compute nodes

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OSTI ID:1327916
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.
Research Organization:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
Patent Number(s):
9,459,917
Application Number:
13/783,968
OSTI ID:
1327916
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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Performance analysis of parallel programs via message-passing graph traversal conference January 2006
Visual Programming for Message-Passing Systems journal August 1999