BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to wager gaming machines. More specifically, it relates to thermal management within a gaming machine. 2. Description of the Related Art With energy prices rising, ga…
BACKGROUND The field of invention relates to the computer sciences, generally, and, more specifically, to the thermal management of components other than a processing core. Computing systems have traditionally been designed with a bus (such as a "fro…
A processor's performance state may be adjusted based on processor temperature. On transitions to a lower performance state due to the processor getting hotter, the processor's frequency is reduced prior to reducing the processor voltage. Thus, the p…
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The invention generally relates to virtual machine management, and more particularly to efficient scheduling of virtual machines using processor state information. Virtualization of machine resources has been of significan…
FIELD One embodiment of the invention relates to a closed loop thermal control process in a portable electronic device having several embedded temperature sensors. Other embodiments are also described. BACKGROUND Most electronic products in use today…
A method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for logical partitioning and virtualization in heterogeneous computer architecture. In one illustrative embodiment, a portion of a first set of processors of a first type is allocated to a partiti…
What's New in iOS9 This article summarizes the key developer-related features introduced in iOS 9, which runs on currently shipping iOS devices. The article also lists the documents that describe new features in more detail. For late-breaking news an…
Various embodiments of methods and systems for thermally aware scheduling of workloads in a portable computing device that contains a heterogeneous, multi-processor system on a chip ("SoC") are disclosed. Because individual processing components…
FIELD OF THE INVENTION The present invention is related to computing systems, and more particularly to a system and method for adjusting to changes in processor performance. BACKGROUND INFORMATION Designers of mobile computing platforms are faced wit…
