Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support – Computer power control – Power conservation
Reexamination Certificate
2008-10-01
2011-10-18
Auve, Glenn A (Department: 2111)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support
Computer power control
Power conservation
C713S310000, C713S320000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08041976
ABSTRACT:
Power management for clusters of computers, a cluster including a configuration of computers operating in a power management domain, one or more of the computers of the cluster having a power requirement that differs from power requirements of other computers in the cluster, data processing operations on the cluster effecting a processing load on the computers in the cluster, including selecting, from a plurality of configurations of computers capable of supporting a plurality of processing loads at a plurality of power levels, a configuration of computers capable of supporting the processing load at a lowest power level, the lowest power level defined by comparison among configurations capable of supporting the processing load; and reconfiguring the cluster according to the selected configuration.
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Kern Eric R.
Pagan William G.
Auve Glenn A
Biggers & Ohanian LLP
International Business Machines - Corporation
Seal Cynthia G.
Spraggins H. Barrett
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