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There have been a lot of new and exciting offers in the miles & points world lately!
Certain credit cards now come with better travel benefits than ever before, like airline credits and airport lounge access. Your vacation can be cheaper and more comfortable if you know which cards to sign-up for!
I'll share my top 5 travel credit cards to help you achieve Big Travel with Small Money.
My Top 5 Picks for Travel Credit Cards
Link: Hot Deals
Whether you're new to this hobby or a miles & points professional, these deals will help you achieve your travel goals in a hurry! And none of these cards charge foreign transaction fees, so they're great cards to use overseas.
1. Chase Sapphire Reserve
Link: Chase Sapphire Reserve
The Chase Sapphire Reserve is a terrific card for folks looking for Big Travel with Small Money.
The card comes with a sign-up bonus of 100,000 Chase Ultimate Rewards points after you spend $4,000 on purchases in the first 3 months after opening your account. That's worth at least $1,500 in travel when you redeem your points through the Chase Travel Portal for flights, car rentals, etc. And even more if you transfer your points to valuable Chase airline and hotel partners, like United Airlines and Hyatt!
This is the highest public offer I've ever seen on a card that earns Chase Ultimate Rewards points!
The Chase Sapphire Reserve comes with a $450 annual fee, but it can be easily offset by great travel perks like:
- $300 statement credit for travel purchases (hotels, airfare, car rental, etc.) per calendar year
- Priority Pass Select for access to airport lounges
- $100 statement credit for Global Entry
Million Mile Secrets team member Keith was one of the first to receive a Chase Sapphire Reserve. He loves the 3X points he receives on travel & dining, and enjoys the free food and Wi-Fi inside airport lounges!
2. Chase Sapphire Preferred
Link: Chase Sapphire Preferred
Link: My Review of the Chase Sapphire Preferred
I always recommend the Chase Sapphire Preferred to folks who are new to miles and points.
When you open the Chase Sapphire Preferred, you'll earn 50,000 Chase Ultimate Rewards points after you spend $4,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening. That's at least $625 in travel when you book your travel through the Chase Travel Portal. And remember, you can get a lot more value from your points by transferring them to Chase travel partners!
And you'll get another 5,000 Chase Ultimate Rewards points when you add an authorized user and make a purchase within the first 3 months.
Everyone here at Million Mile Secrets has the Chase Sapphire Preferred! Because it comes with solid travel benefits for a comparatively low annual fee of $95 (waived the first year). We enjoy benefits like primary car rental insurance, which covers any damage or theft to your rental car, and trip delay reimbursement, which will compensate you up to $500 when your trip is delayed more than 12 hours.
3. Citi Prestige
Link: Citi Prestige Card
Link: My Review of the Citi Prestige
While the Citi Prestige credit card offer used to be a lot better, it's still an incredible travel credit card!
The card comes with a $450 annual fee, which can be offset by amazing perks like:
- $250 statement credit for airline fees such as airfare and baggage fees appearing on your statement from December to the following December
- $100 statement credit for Global Entry application fee
- Priority Pass Select Lounge access for primary cardholder and immediate family or to 2 guests
- American Airlines Admirals Club lounge access for primary cardholder, immediate family, or 2 guests, as long as you're flying on American Airlines or American Eagle that day (through July 23, 2017)
- 4th night free when you book 4 consecutive nights at any hotel (must be booked through Citi Prestige Concierge and paid in full with your card)
Million Mile Secrets team member Scott has the Citi Prestige, and loves how easy it is to use the $250 annual airline credit! He also uses the airline lounge perk, and says the 4th night free benefit alone easily outweighs the annual fee for him!
We don't earn a commission on the Citi Prestige, but Emily and I will always tell you about the best deals!
4. Ritz-Carlton Rewards
Link: Ritz-Carlton Rewards
Link: My Review of the Ritz-Carlton Rewards
The Chase Ritz-Carlton card recently received some big improvements. Instead of receiving 2 free nights at participating Ritz-Carlton tier 1 through 4 hotels, you'll now earn 3 complimentary nights at after meeting minimum spending requirements!
Depending on where you're staying, you could save thousands with this sign-up bonus. For example, a night at the Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay can cost ~$750 per night!
The Chase Ritz-Carlton card comes with a $450 annual fee. But it has lots of nice travel perks, including:
- 10,000 Ritz-Carlton points when you add an authorized user and make a purchase within the first 3 months of account opening
- $300 annual travel credit to use for qualifying airline purchases such as seat upgrades, baggage fees and preferred lounge memberships or passes
- $100 discount on multi-passenger, domestic round-trip itineraries purchased through the Visa Infinite Discount Air Benefit
- Priority Pass Select for access to airport lounges
- $100 statement credit for Global Entry
One of the most interesting perks is the Visa Infinite Discount Air Benefit. You'll get a $100 discount on domestic, round-trip itineraries for 2 to 5 passengers when you use your Chase Ritz-Carlton card to book through the Visa Infinite Discount Air Benefit site.
And there's no limit on the number of times you can use the discount! The savings could really add up if you book paid domestic flights often.
Check out my top picks for the best hotels to use your 3 free Ritz-Carlton nights in the US, South America, Europe, and Asia!
5. Chase Ink Plus
Link: Chase Ink Plus
Link: My Review of the Chase Ink Plus
Link: How to Fill Out a Chase Business Card Application
You'll earn 60,000 Chase Ultimate Rewards points after you spend $5,000 on purchases in the first 3 months of opening your Chase Ink Plus account. That's worth at least $750 in travel when you redeem your points through the Chase Travel Portal!
The Chase Ink Plus has a great rewards earning rate, depending on your spending habits:
- 5X points at office supply stores and cellular phone, landline, internet and cable TV (up to $50,000 in combined purchases per account anniversary year)
- 2X points at gas stations and on rooms booked directly with hotels
The Chase Ink Plus comes with an annual fee of $95.
You can transfer Chase Ultimate Rewards points you earn from the Chase Ink Plus to travel partners, too! We transferred our points to Hyatt for a stay at the Park Hyatt Vendome in Paris, a hotel that sells rooms for $700+ per night!
The Chase Ink Plus is a business card, but don't let that stop you from applying. You might qualify for a small business card without even realizing it!
Bottom Line
I've made a list of my top 5 travel credit cards this month to help you get Big Travel with Small Money:
These cards come with very valuable ongoing travel benefits, like a $100 discount on multi-passenger domestic round-trip itineraries, with the Chase Ritz-Carlton, or primary auto coverage with the Chase Sapphire Preferred.
Some of these deals have been around for a while, and some are brand new! And we never know how long anything will last!
What are your top travel credit card picks?
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German May Retail Sales Decline Further
RTTNews - Wednesday, Germany's Federal Statistical Office announced that the retail sales in real terms dropped 2.9% year-over-year in May, compared with a .03% fall in April, revised from 0.8% decline reported initially. Economists were looking for a decline of 1.5%. A year earlier, retail sales were up 1.4%.
Month-on-month, retail sales increased 0.4% in May, after rising 0.5% in April. Economists had expected an increase of 0.5%.
For the first five months of the year, retail sales grew 2.3% compared to the same period of the previous year.
In nominal terms, retail sales dipped 3.2% year-on-year in May, compared with a 0.4% fall in April, revised from 0.9% drop estimated initially. On a monthly basis, retail sales were up 0.5%, after rising 0.9% in April. During the January to May period, retail sales were up 2.4% over a year ago.
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Who says tape is dead? Well not Sony anyway. This week at NAB, the new SRW-9000 HDCAM SR Camcorder will be shown at the Sony and Abel booths. It's a compact one-piece body camcorder with a 2/3″ 1080p CCD sensor. In 10-bit 4:2:2, it will record at 1080/23.98P, 24P, 25P, 29.97P, and 1080/50i/59.94i. Oh, AND it can also record 4:2:2 1080/50P/59.94P. That's right it will record 1080P 60P just like the F23, but is considerably smaller.
There are also several option boards that will expand the feature set even more: a Dual Link SDI output board for 4:2:2 1080P 60P output, a variable speed recording 1-60 FPS board that also allows for 3 seconds of pre-cache, and a 4:4:4 RGB recording and output board with support for the S-LOG gamma mode. Check out more information here at 1394 BBS (Japanese website) and follow Sony's NAB 2009 mini site as well as this blog. The SRW-9000 is planned to be available in December.


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The Nemenoff Report - Bonds Lower, S&P's higher, Silver Lower
Financials: June Bonds are currently 19 lower at 118'29. This morning's weekly jobless claims report showed a drop of 20,000 versus a pre-report expectation of an increase of 9,000. Continuing claims dropped 59,000 to 3,774,000. If you are currently short the Bonds I recommend taking profits and standing aside until after tomorrow's monthly unemployment report. If you are staying with a short position lower your protective buy stop to the 119'16 level. I will be looking to reinstate a short position at the 120'06 level if the market allows. We continue to hold out of the money puts and/or put spreads in the June and Sept. 2012 Eurodollars.
Grains: Yesterday May Beans closed 19 cents higher, Corn 13 lower and Wheat a penny higher. Over night Beans were 2 higher, Corn 3 higher and Wheat 6 higher. Yesterday May Corn tested resistance in the 740'0 area making a high of 740'6 before breaking to the 707'0 level, establishing a range which should hold for the next few sessions. We continue to hold the combination of short the May Corn 660'0 put and short the May Corn 740'0 call.
Cattle: Yesterday Live and Feeder Cattle closed sharply higher as the cash market for live cattle traded as high as 112.00. We have been stopped out of recent short positions with about a scratch. I am willing to once again pursue the short side of these markets 50- 100 higher from current levels.
Silver: May Silver is currently 37 cents lower at 34.45. Apr. Gold is currently 12.00 lower at 1425.00. Yesterday we rolled the long leg of the June Gold 1450/1500 call spread up to the 1470 strike price for 7.00 or better (we bought the 1470 call and sold the 1500 call for a premium of $700 of which we collected the premium). We are now long the 1470 call and short the 1500 call.
S&P's: Mar. S&P's are currently 16.50 higher at 1322.00. Our buy stop against a recent short position in the 1319.00 area has been penetrated. I will once again be a seller above the 1324.00 level.
Currencies: As of this writing the Mar. Euro is currently 86 higher at 1.3946, the Swiss 83 lower, the Yen 62 lower and the Pound 52 lower at 1.6276. The Euro is gaining on most other currencies on comments from the ECU that rates may raise in Apr. as a means of fighting inflation. I'm not convinced that this would be bullish against the Dollar but I am not willing to aggressively pursue the short side. That being said we remain long puts on the Apr. and June contracts which are now admittedly pretty far out of the money and have a small short futures position at a 200+ point loss.
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text: After Sammir Dattani, Mukul Dev and Vivek Oberoi, one more Bollywood actor is now debuting in Kannada films. He is no other than Aftab Shivdasani. Yes! Director Pratap Gowda has made an official announcement that he has roped in Aftab Shivdasani for his much-hyped multi-starrer Kannada movie Udyan Express. According to him, Aftab is playing a pivotal role.Aftab was first introduced to director Pratap Gowda through his friend Rama Iyer, who is also playing a small role in the film Udayan Express. He got impressed and accepted to play the role when the director approached him with his script. Pratap is very happy to work with him. The movie Udyan Express has been facing problems one after another since its announcement. It is a big budget movie and will be made in Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Hindi simultaneously. The movie has already seen a big delay due to the unavailability of dates of various actors.Earlier, it was reported that the director was planning to rope in actresses like Prachi Desai and Riya Sen. But he landed up with actresses like Garam Masala fame Nargis, Jennifer Kotwal, Hong Kong-based actress Mishti and Madhurima. Revathi Menon is also making her comeback to Kannada through this film.


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Mentor of the Day: Mark McDonnell
Mark McDonnell has often been asked by many of his students if he would be able to watch after them and lead them in the right direction, but due to his busy schedule, he's often had to post-pone mentoring. However, this time, Mark has said yes, and is willing to mentor one very lucky individual through Motivarti!
Mark is one of those artists that happens to do, well, just about it all when it comes to the animation industry! In an interview with Character Design Blog, Mark says, "I am very lucky that I get to try my hand at a great many things. From character design, layout, backgrounds, color key set ups, set design for 3D, beat boards, storyboards, theme park design, video game design, graphic design, and recently book design . . . I get to work on a great deal of different projects."
Over the last several years as an animation and entertainment professional, Mark McDonnell has become recognized as a highly respected designer in many facets of the industry. He began his career in toy and product design working for Applause and Global Consumer Products helping to create toys and product designs for Warner Brother's, Waterford Crystal, The Franklin Mint, Thomas Kincade, Goebel's Hummel collectables, Keebler, Fox and Disney to name a few.
With an interest of stepping closer to the animation and entertainment industry, Mark left to become an Art Director at Technicolor Creative Services (TCS), a private branch that serviced many of the major industry studios. The primary client was The Walt Disney Company's many divisions but also grew to range in a wide variety of studios including:
- Walt Disney Feature Animation
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- Pixar
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- Legendary Pictures
- The Jim Henson Company
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and many more.
After leaving TCS, Mark began his career in working in the Animation Industry by working on Tinkerbell and it's upcoming sequel, North Of Neverland.
Mark McDonnell's work as a designer has touched a wide variety of skill sets while working in the Animation and Entertainment Industry. He has worked as a character designer, a layout/set designer, prop designer, look development designer and as an instructor. He's a very passionate teacher and often posts demos on his blog, website, and YouTube.
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So if you're looking to develop your thinking skills in addition to your design skills, apply to be Mark's mentee! He's open to taking just one mentee from anywhere in the world!


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|Sep 7, 2010
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|Dec 22, 2004
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|Dec 22, 2004
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|Susumi Arai, Ryuji Orita
|Original Assignee
|International Business Machines Corporation
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|Patent Citations (44), Referenced by (13), Classifications (21), Legal Events (4)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
The present invention relates to computers and computer systems including more than one processor. Processors running computational processes generate heat as an inevitable by-product. The more processors present in a multiprocessor system, the more heat they will generate. The amount of heat each processor generates will increase with the processing speed of the processor. As processors become able to function at faster and faster speeds, they will generate increasing amounts of heat. That heat must be dissipated. If the heat is generated at a faster rate than it can be dissipated, then the temperature of the processor will rise. Excess heat can cause processors to degrade performance or even fail. The heat generation problem is exacerbated in multi-processor systems as each processor is generating heat into the overall enclosure. At the same time, the demand for high-density servers, such as blade servers, is increasing. Performance requirements based on user demand are increasing. Thus, multiprocessor systems have increasingly more processors running at higher processing speed, both factors of which cause increased heat production. Unless that heat production is controlled, overall system performance can degrade. Heat production can be managed in many ways. Task allocation between processors is one of those ways. Thus, the field of this invention is thermal management of a multiprocessor computer system through task allocation.
Modern computer systems may be composed of a number of processors. These processors may be configured with multiple processors on one integrated circuit. Alternately, they may be configured on multiple networked computers. Tasks may be allocated between processors by an operating system or a separate computer program. Each processor generates heat. That heat generation is increased as more processes run, and as those processes run at faster speeds. Excess heat can degrade the performance of an individual processor, or even cause failure of that device. If the temperature distribution of the various processors is uneven, and some of them exceed the threshold while others are far below the threshold, the speed of those overheated processors is throttled and the performance of the entire system goes down. Other processors that are not overheated may be underutilized and the overall system performance may degrade. On the other hand, if the temperature of all CPU is kept below the threshold, all CPU's can keep running at full speed. Therefore, it is advantageous to manage the heat in a multi-processor computer system.
Some modern processors are designed with electronic sensors resident in the same integrated circuit chip as the central processing unit ("CPU") of the processor for measuring the temperature at or near the CPU. Alternately, a circuit board may contain a temperature sensor located physically near the processor if one is not resident in the same chip. Controlling mechanisms, either in operating system software or elsewhere may utilize this temperature data or act on the computer system or individual processors to minimize overheating of either individual processors or the overall system. In some modern processors, the temperature sensor may be passive, as in the case of a resistor, whose electrical resistivity varies with temperature. Alternately, the processor chip may include an active sensor, which can send a signal when the chip temperature exceeds a predetermined value.
While generation of heat is due to processor activity, dissipation of that heat may be influenced by many factors. For example, the physical mounting of a processor may affect the rate at which heat is dissipated. Similarly, airflow around the processor may affect the heat dissipation rate. Greater airflow can result in faster heat dissipation, while the reverse may be true also. One approach to thermal management involves managing tasks assigned to processors.
There are several solutions to thermal management commonly used in multi-processor system designs.
One approach is to design the mountings of the individual processors with large heat sinks with sufficient thermal properties to dissipate the maximum amount of heat each processor might generate. However, this solution has numerous drawbacks, including the large physical size required for adequate heat sinks or else large and noisy fans for faster heat dissipation. In addition, this approach runs counter to the industry trend of increasingly dense computer systems. Such dense computer systems, such as blade servers, would physically be unable to include the hardware components for such intense heat dissipation.
Other approaches involve measurement of the actual temperature of the processor and taking actions which results in the processor cooling down. One approach is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,502,838 and commonly referred to as thermal throttling. With this approach, the speed of a processor is reduced when its temperature exceeds a predetermined threshold, but there is no halting or movement of processes. While this approach works well for an individual processor, such thermal throttling may unnecessarily hamper the overall system performance. The overheating may be caused by a local condition, such as poor air flow, that affects only one overheated processor. That particular processor would be caused to run at a slower rate, resulting in the processes on it taking longer to complete. Those same local conditions which contributed to the overheating might also slow the cooling. At the same time, there may be other processors at well below the critical temperature that could run the particular process at full speed. Thus the overall system performance is unnecessarily degraded.
Another solution, as disclosed in a published patent application US 2003/0229662 A1 involves a component of an operating system monitoring the temperature of all processors in a system. Whenever the temperature of a particular processor exceeds a predetermined value, that process is stopped and moved to another processor. This solution to the problem of optimizing overall system performance in the context of heat management has the drawback that processes may be constantly disrupted. Furthermore, as a processor may cool down quite quickly after the process causing its overheating has been removed, always stopping the processes running on it, moving them to another processor, and then re-starting the interrupted processes may take more time than simply halting processes and waiting for the processor to cool down. Finally, in a computer system in which all processors are not of the same capability, moving a process to another processor may results in that process being run on a slower or faster than desired processor, which could adversely affect overall system performance.
Another solution, as disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,913,068, electrically removes processor(s) from the system to reduce the power consumption. The drawback to this approach is that the context of the processor is lost. When the context is lost, the states of any processes running on that processor may be lost also. Bringing those processes back into operation may require an undue amount of time, thereby degrading the overall system performance.
The invention relates to thermal management of a multi-processor computer system. A method of the invention includes monitoring the temperatures of the processors within a multi-processor computer system. The method determines which, if any, of the temperatures of the various processors in the computer system are above a predetermined threshold value and are hence over-heated. When such processors are detected, a dummy process is inserted in that processor. That dummy process has a higher priority than all other processes running on that processor, and causes them to be stopped and moved to a holding queue. In one embodiment of the invention the dummy process may cause the processor to stop completely. In another embodiment the dummy process may run at a very slow speed, thereby permitting it to cool down. However, this embodiment differs from the known method of thermal throttling in that the insertion of the dummy process halts the process which caused the overheating.
This invention acts by monitoring the temperature of each central processing unit ("CPU") or "processor" in the computer system and acting to avoid overheating of individual processors and an uneven distribution of the temperatures between processors. That temperature monitoring is accomplished by utilizing temperature-sensing circuitry that is located in or adjacent to the chip containing the CPU, processor or processors.
The temperature monitoring is performed by module, referred to as a thermal monitor, which may be implemented in hardware, software, or a combination of the two. In one embodiment of the invention, the thermal monitor regularly polls each processor and inquires the temperature of that processor. In another embodiment, the thermal monitor responds to interrupts generated by the temperature sensor of any overheated processor in the system. The thermal monitor may be incorporated within the computer system operating system or it may be a stand-alone module operating interactively with that operating system. In one embodiment, the thermal monitor is software running on a processor that is not subject to thermal management.
When the thermal monitor detects an overheated processor, it starts a dummy process on that processor. The dummy process is assigned the highest priority the operating system will allow except for the priorities assigned to the processes of the thermal management itself, of the processes associated with process scheduling. That highest priority is reserved by the operating system for dummy processes, so that no running process can have a higher priority than a dummy process. An illustrative example of a dummy process is the HALT command implemented in certain processors manufactured by the Intel Corporation. That command causes the processor to cease operation until another interrupt signal is sent to the processor to cease the HALT command.
When a process is interrupted by a higher priority dummy process, its current state is saved, and it is moved into a process queue associated with that particular processor. As the processor cycling is stopped or slowed when the dummy process is in place, the processor's heat generation also slows down. The processor, then, will begin to cool. The thermal monitor will continue monitoring all overheated processors to identify when each one has cooled down to be within an acceptable temperature range. In one embodiment of the thermal monitor, the thermal monitor regularly polls all processors, including overheated ones upon which dummy processes are being run. In another interrupt-driven alternative embodiment, a processor will signal its temperature and the thermal monitor will note when that temperature drops into an acceptable range.
When the temperature of an overheated processor does drop into an acceptable range, the thermal monitor will issue an interrupt command that will cause the dummy process on that previously overheated processor to terminate. Then, after the dummy process terminates, other processes within the process queue of that processor will re-start according to their own priorities.
The computer system operating system may also include a process scheduler. The function of the process scheduler is to allocate processes between the various processors. Once a process has been allocated to a particular processor, it is advantageous from a performance standpoint for that process to stay with that processor. However, when a process is ready to run and has been idle in a particular processor for longer than a pre-defined time, it may then be advantageous to move the process to another processor, in spite of the system inefficiency incurred. The predetermined time a process scheduler may wait before transferring an idle process to another processor may be determined to optimize system performance by balancing the computation time lost by moving the process against the expected time for a processor to cool down to an acceptable temperature. Any process that has been idle for a time longer than the average time for cool-down might be moved to another processor. Likewise, overall system performance may be improved by allowing a process to stay idle for an amount of time that is less than the average time for a processor to cool down.
In the following detailed description of exemplary embodiments of the invention, reference is made to the accompanying drawings that form a part hereof, and in which is shown by way of illustration specific exemplary embodiments in which the invention may be practiced. These embodiments are described in sufficient detail to enable those skilled in the art to practice the invention. Other embodiments may be utilized, and logical, mechanical, and other changes may be made without departing from the spirit or scope of the present invention. The following detailed description is, therefore, not to be taken in a limiting sense, and the scope of the present invention is defined only by the appended claims.
In one embodiment of the invention, all processors in the system are subject to the thermal management by the invention. In another embodiment of the invention, at least one processor is not subject to thermal management.
The processors 102 or 150 are the hardware that executes the operating system 106, and the application programs 108. The operating system 106 is the master control program that runs the computer system 100. It is typically the first program loaded when the computer system is turned on. The operating system 106 sets the standards for all application programs, such as the application programs 108 that run on the computer system 100. The application programs 108 are programs that have specific functionality, and that communicate with the operating system 106 for user interface, file management, and other operations. The application programs 108 further act to spawn processes. Those processes may be allocated between different processors by the process scheduler 110.
The process scheduler 110 prioritizes and allocates newly spawned processes to different processors. A process scheduler is the component of a multiprocessor computer system that selects the order and priority by which processes will be run. It can be viewed as the code that divides the finite resource of processor time between the runnable processes on a system. The scheduler is the basis of modern multitasking operating systems such as Linux and Windows and is well known by one skilled in the art. By deciding the order and priority in which processes may run, the scheduler is responsible for best utilizing the system and giving the impression that multiple processes are simultaneously executing.
The functionality provided by the process scheduler is well known by one skilled in the art. To best utilize processor time, assuming there are runnable processes, a process should always be running. If there are more processes than processors in a system, some processes will not always be running. These processes are waiting to run. Deciding what process runs next, given a set of runnable processes, is a fundamental decision the scheduler must make.
Process schedulers may come in multiple embodiments. In one embodiment of the invention, the process scheduler provides preemptive multitasking. In preemptive multitasking, the scheduler or other element of the system issues a signal that causes a process to stop running and another process is to start if new or resume running if old. In another alternative embodiment, each process is assigned a length of time it may run.
An embodiment of the process scheduler aspect of the invention includes priority-based scheduling. Priority based scheduling in a process scheduler assigns priorities to processes and ranks those processes based on their worth and need for processor time. Processes with a higher priority will run before those with a lower priority, while processes with the same priority are scheduled round robin (one after the next, repeating). When a processor receives a process with a higher priority than the one currently running, it will stop that currently running process and move it to a process-holding queue 120 where the process will be held until the higher priority process completes.
In an embodiment of the invention, the process scheduler also monitors the process holding queue 120 in each processor. When it determines that a process has been in the process holding queue of a given processor for longer than a predetermined length of time, it then moves that process to another processor. In one embodiment of the invention, the process scheduler also performs the additional step of determining the temperature of the processor 102 or 150 through querying the temperature sensor 122 of the processor before it assigns a process to that processor. When there are no available processors to transfer a process to, it does nothing.
In one embodiment of the invention, processes involved the running of the process scheduler are run on a processor or processors that are not subject to thermal management.
In various embodiments of the present invention, the temperature sensor 122 may be in the same semiconductor chip as the CPU 103, in the separate regions on the microprocessor integrated circuit where different functional units reside. In other embodiments of the invention the temperature sensor 122 may be in close physical proximity to the CPU 103 on a circuit board 150. In one embodiment of the invention, the temperature sensor 122 is a passive device that can be read by an active listening device to determine the temperature at or near the CPU 103. In another embodiment of the invention, the temperature sensor 122 may be an active device which will generate a signal when the temperature at or near the CPU 103 exceeds a predetermined value. In another embodiment of the invention, the temperature sensor 122 may generate a signal both when the temperature at or near the CPU 103 exceeds a predetermined value and another signal when the temperature lowers to below another predetermined value.
There are a number of ways temperature may be indirectly sensed by solid state circuits designed into microprocessor functional regions. For example, circuitry may be incorporated in a functional unit area to respond to test signals according to the temperature of circuit elements. Temperature affects physical and electrical characteristics of materials. As a simple example, because resistance of materials changes in known ways according to temperature fluctuations, a circuit might be included in a functional region with one or more resistor elements, and current and/or voltage changes in response to a known input may be measured as an indication of temperature change. Another way an indication of temperature may be obtained is by including a circuit in each functional area wherein the rate of signal propagation may be measured as an indication of temperature. Yet another way is to incorporate an oscillator circuit arranged in a manner to exhibit a frequency varying with temperature. Various forms of circuitry for indirect measurement of temperature are known in the art, and it will be apparent to those with skill in the art that temperature may be monitored for a semiconductor circuit indirectly in a number of different ways, and the measurements related empirically to temperature.
In other embodiments of the invention, the temperature sensor 122 may incorporate logic elements that will send an interrupt signal based on or related to the temperature at or near the CPU. In other embodiments, the sending of the interrupt signal may be based on the temperature differential between the CPU and another temperature sensing device located in another area of the computer system known to be not susceptible to overheating.
The thermal monitor 130 receives temperature information from temperature sensor 122. In embodiments of the invention in which the temperature sensor 122 is an active device, the thermal monitor 130 will receive an interrupt signal from the temperature sensor 122 when the temperature at or near the CPU 103 exceeds a predetermined value. In this embodiment, when the thermal monitor 130 receives such a signal it will determine which processor 102 caused the interrupt to be generated and will then spawn a dummy process to that processor 102.
A dummy process is a process that requires very little or no workload on the CPU 103 and/or puts the CPU 103 in a low power consumption mode hence generates very little heat in comparison to other more computation intensive processes, or no heat at al. An illustrative example of a dummy process is the HALT command common to CPUs produced by the Intel Corporation. This command may stop or slow the operation of a portion of the CPU, and lower the voltage & frequency of the CPU to minimize its power consumption. In one embodiment of the invention, the dummy process has a higher priority than all other processes which the operating system 106 will allow in the computer system 100 and therefore pre-empts any currently running process.
In an embodiment of the invention, the dummy process will run until it is terminated by an external command. In another embodiment of the invention, the thermal monitor may also assign a running time to the dummy process. The dummy process will run for the length of time it is assigned, and then cease running. In different embodiments of the invention, the running time assigned to the dummy process may be predetermined, or it may be determined by the thermal monitor based on system conditions, including the temperature of the processor, system workload levels, or other determinants.
In other embodiments of the invention, the thermal monitor 130 may regularly poll the temperature sensors 122 of each processor 102 or 150. When it identifies any temperature greater than a predetermined threshold value, it will then spawn a dummy process to run on that processor. Similarly, when it determines that the temperature has dropped to below another predetermined value; it will cause the dummy process running on that processor 102 or 150 to terminate.
Once a CPU has overheated, it is advantageous to have it not operate a task that can cause overheating again until the CPU has cooled down below a threshold temperature. The duration of time for adequate cooling depends on the technology of the CPU and the cooling environment. Continued prolonged overheating can cause premature wear out and CPU failure. On phenomenon commonly know in the art, electro migration is accelerated by temperature. Thus in alternative embodiments of the invention, the dummy process will not be terminated until the temperature of the CPU is well below a predetermined value that triggers the insertion of the dummy process.
The process queue 120 is a memory that holds all processes that have been assigned to the processor 102 or 150 but that are not currently running due to having a priority lower than the process running on the processor. Only the process with the highest priority will run at a given point in time. Once the process currently running on the processor is finished or lowers its priority (to wait for external events, such as the completion of I/O request), the process scheduler determines which process to run from the process queue.
Next the thermal monitor 130 will perform the step 208 of checking each non-overheated processor and identifying any non-overheated processor that is running a dummy process. The next step 210 is to terminate all dummy processes running on all processors that are not overheated. In one embodiment of the invention, the termination of dummy processes may be accomplished by sending a signal to the processor running those processes terminating the dummy process. In another embodiment of the invention in which the dummy processes are of a predetermined time duration, the termination may be performed by allowing the process to lapse. If the processor has cooled sufficiently, a dummy process would not be re-spawned. Then the method will perform the step 212 consisting of sleeping, or waiting for a predetermined time before returning to step 202 checking the temperature of each processor.
In an embodiment of the invention the method will perform at regular intervals the optional step 220 of determining if the system has processors not running dummy processes, and if there are such processors, moving all processes that have been in a holding queue longer than a predetermined time to another available processor
If any such free processors are identified, then the method performs step 706, checking the process queue 120 of each of the multiplicity of processors 102. Next the method 700 performs the step 706 of identifying all processes in each process queue 120 of processors running a dummy process. Next the method 700 performs the step of waiting a predetermined time and checking the process queue 102 of each process queue of each processor running a dummy process again. Next the method 700 performs the step 714 of identifying all processes that were in a particular process queue in both step 708 and step 714. Next the method 700 performs the step 716 of moving all the processes so identified to other free processors. Next the method 700 returns to step 702 for the next iteration of the method 700.
Reference throughout this specification to "a select embodiment," "one embodiment," or "an embodiment" means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment is included in at least one embodiment of the present invention. Thus, appearances of the phrases "a select embodiment," "in one embodiment," or "in an embodiment" in various places throughout this specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment.
Furthermore, the described features, structures, or characteristics may be combined in any suitable manner in one or more embodiments. One skilled in the relevant art will recognize, however, that the invention can be practiced without one or more of the specific details, or with other methods, components, materials, etc. In other instances, well-known structures, materials, or operations are not shown or described in detail to avoid obscuring aspects of the invention.
It is noted that, although specific embodiments have been illustrated and described herein, and are presently considered the preferred embodiments, it will be appreciated by those of ordinary skill in the art that any arrangement calculated to achieve the same purpose may be substituted for the specific embodiments shown. This application is intended to cover any adaptations or variations of embodiments of the present invention. Therefore, it is manifestly intended that this invention be limited only by the claims and equivalents thereof.
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Karachi: Pakistani fast bowler Wasim Akram said Thursday he bowed out of next month's Test series against Australia to give his body a rest and not because of any disagreements.
"I have opted out of the Test series against Australia due to over-exertion. My body needs a rest and there is no rift behind me missing the series," Wasim said. Wasim, along with Inzamam-ul Haq, Shahid Afridi, Saeed Anwar and sacked manager Yawar Saeed returned from Sri Lanka on Wednesday night. Opener Saeed Anwar has also opted out of the series while vice-captain Inzamam and Yousuf Youhana had to pull out due to injuries. "I am disappointed to miss an important series but it's no use playing when your body doesn't allow. It badly needs a rest and I had conveyed that I would not play the series long beforehand," said Wasim, 36. Wasim, one of the world's great pacemen, has the unique record of having taken more than 400 wickets in both forms of the game - 414 in 104 Tests and 479 in a record 343 One-day games - since starting his career in 1984-85. "This will give youngsters a chance to establish themselves and I will not be there always. Somebody has to take it from me some day," he said. "My main target is to play more and more one-day games and the World Cup will definitely be my last event," said Wasim, who suffers from diabetes. His decision to miss the series sparked talk of a rift in the team. But Wasim dismissed the reports and said he had no ambition to reclaim the captaincy. "Such things creep up whenever we lose but I have had my stints as captain and I am not at all interested in leading because I have decided to retire next year," he said. "Pakistan have played hard in the last few tournaments but we have lost and once we win two or three games all things will fall into place."
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Computational Knee Ligament Modeling Using Experimentally Determined Zero-Load Lengths
Issue Date2012-04-01
Bloemker, Katherine H.
Guess, Trent M.
Maletsky, Lorin
Dodd, Kevin A.
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This study presents a subject-specific method of determining the zero-load lengths of the cruciate and collateral ligaments in computational knee modeling. Three cadaver knees were tested in a dynamic knee simulator. The cadaver knees also underwent manual envelope of motion testing to find their passive range of motion in order to determine the zero-load lengths for each ligament bundle. Computational multibody knee models were created for each knee and model kinematics were compared to experimental kinematics for a simulated walk cycle. One-dimensional non-linear spring damper elements were used to represent cruciate and collateral ligament bundles in the knee models. This study found that knee kinematics were highly sensitive to altering of the zero-load length. The results also suggest optimal methods for defining each of the ligament bundle zero-load lengths, regardless of the subject. These results verify the importance of the zero-load length when modeling the knee joint and verify that manual envelope of motion measurements can be used to determine the passive range of motion of the knee joint. It is also believed that the method described here for determining zero-load length can be used for in vitro or in vivo subject-specific computational models.
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Bloemker, Katherine H, Trent M Guess, Lorin Maletsky, and Kevin Dodd. 2012. "Computational Knee Ligament Modeling Using Experimentally Determined Zero-Load Lengths." The Open Biomedical Engineering Journal 6 : 33–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874230001206010033
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The battle came at an extraordinary general meeting called by Claud Gurney, an underwriting member. He wanted Lloyd's to admit that it was not exempt from paying damages to anyone who suffered losses in the market.
During the meeting, held on the trading floor at the close of business, Mr Gurney called on Peter Middleton, Lloyd's chief executive, 'to lead from the front and not from behind'.
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Calling for a review of Government spending on BSE, the committee said denying more aid to farmers could have "unintended harsh consequences for specialist beef producers, whose heavier finished animals are often not eligible for full compensation."
The committee said: "We think that farmers are right to expect the Government to treat them sympathetically."
The committee is chaired by Tory MP Peter Luff, but seven of its 11 MPs are Labour MPs and its findings cannot be brushed aside by the Agriculture ministers.
The MPs say that BSE could lead to a restructuring of the beef industry in Britain, with many farmers going out of business, but it says the piecemeal approach of Tony Blair's Government and previous ministers has failed to meet the challenge to the farming industry.
"Valuable time and money that could have been spent on restructuring the industry has been wasted for lack of a clear Government long-term strategy which would have assisted farmers to recognise the need for change," the committee said.
The committee was also worried that Dr Cunningham may be gradually withdrawing subsidy altogether. In evidence, the Agriculture Minister said he could think of no other product in the UK which received the same level of financial support as the beef sector, and appeared to rule out further aid.
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In the eposide "Our son the man" Mike said that Greg would have to be 2 1/2 feet tall to move into the attic.
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Greg: Sounds like a real zoo.
There is a flaw with Mike saying every Brady kid having the attic as room to be alone. After Marcia goes to college then Peter gets the attic and that gives Bobby the boys room by himself while Jan and Cindy still having to share a room.
Barry Williams has stated that this episode was filmed during the peak of his off-screen romance with actress Maureen McCormick, adding that "if you watch the attic scene, you'll notice the tension between us; it was palpable".
Coincidentally, Chris Beaumont (Hank) made his first appearance on "The Brady Bunch" in the episode "Our Son, the Man" when Greg first brought up the idea of moving into his own room.
Its very interesting to note that at the end of this episode Cindy is trying to figure out how long it will take for her to get her chance to move into the attic room. However, she seems to forget that by the time she can do it she will have the girls room all to herself.
Greg's move to the attic is a big moment as he not only gets to move into his own room, but the boys no longer have to sleep in bunk beds. That was short lived when Cousin Oliver moved in.
This episode was parodied in"A Very Brady Sequel".
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"I am trying to make certain I know what to do in each situation so Coach Richt does not have to worry about that when he puts me in the game," said Brown. The most difficult task for any running back in Richt's offense has been learning protection schemes. It's a perquisite to playing in Richt's offense
Brown admitted pass protection has been the most difficult transition to college football. "The defense lines up in different sets and it's hard to read sometimes."
Last season Georgia's running backs, with the exception of Tony Milton, had difficulty picking up blitzes. The result was David Greene being pressured early and often from defenders.
"Most of the time in high school ball we only blocked the defensive end or blocked one blitzing linebacker, or something like that. Now, there could be three options in terms of who I need to block," said Brown of the difference between high school and college blocking schemes.
Brown will likely play this season. He told the media he was probably starting at kickoff return, but he was uncertain how much he would play at running back. Richt said later Brown would return kickoffs with Fred Gibson, Bryan McClendon, and others, but that the freshman was not necessarily the "starting" kickoff return man. "I think he may have started a drill for us, but we want to see what Brown can do," said Richt.
Brown said he took "four or five" kickoffs back for touchdowns while at Tucker.
Still, it seems unlikely Richt would use up a year of Brown eligibility on simply returning the ball during kickoffs. Brown has looked good at times in the passing game during fall camp. But he will have to fight off several other running backs to show his stuff this season.
"I hope I am not just returning kicks all year because I don't want to waste a season on special teams," Brown said. Brown, like Tyson Browning, will be used in several sets this season in which the running back splits out wide in hopes of matching up against a linebacker. The scheme plays in the favor of the Bulldogs.
But Brown missed a few practices this fall camp due to his tender hamstring. He said, however, that he felt like the missed practices helped him get a difference perspective on getting ready for picking up blitzes.
"In hindsight I think it helped me out a lot," said Brown. "I got to sit on the sideline and just watch the other running backs. I was able to learn exactly what I was going to do when I went into the game. It was like a mental rep."
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Nerf blasters. It is used in mainly electronic blasters. It is comprised of three basic parts: two horizontal rotationary wheels and a plastic tube in the center. The plastic tube, known as the pusher mechanism, functions much like a plunger, as it feeds the dart into the flywheels.
Most of the time, the flywheel is part of something called a flywheel system, which includes the flywheel itself, wiring, and other details to make the system work. There are a few wires connected to the mechanism which are powered by different types of batteries, dependent on the blaster. Blasters that use this mechanism are all electronic blasters, which means that the electronic blasters use batteries.
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This lack of understanding between the generations forms the central theme of Carolly Erickson's book. George IV was Regent for 10 years, between 1810 and 1820, while his father lingered on in healthy imbecility. Like Lady Holland, the Prince of Wales was a relic of the 1780s. To subsequent generations it was the most permissive of decades, characterised by the louche adherents of the Devonshire House circle. Intoxicated by the prosperity generated by an expanding empire, and encouraged by Rousseau's injunction to "be natural", the Eighties youth made a virtue out of personal freedom. By 1810, the extravagant head-dresses and dyed-blue wigs of the 1780s remained the symbols of a licentious age, objects of derision similar to the giggles that the 1960s styles provoke today.
Our Tempestuous Day is an original and sensitive portrayal of a troubled era. The 'Day' of the title is apt since the book is less a narrative than a kaleidoscope of views, impressionist fragments of a scene captured at different hours on a single blustery day. Any slight embellishments in Our Tempestuous Day are as nothing compared with the tabloid claims that enliven Jane Aiken Hodge's Passion and Principle. "A servant met in a corridor by a guest was liable to be dismissed, or raped." Really? Silly errors mar some of the fun: there are wrong titles, wrong dates and, curiously, a sex-change for a duchess's illegitimate child.
The subtitle of the book, "The Lives and Loves of Regency Women", is a misnomer, since almost half of Hodge's subjects were celebrities of the 1780s. Calling them Regency women is like writing a book on women of the 1990s and having Marianne Faithfull and Twiggy on the cover. The book lumps the exuberant leaders of the Devonshire House circle, Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire and her sister Lady Bessborough, with the succeeding generation of social reformers. Poor Elizabeth Fry and Hannah More, a Quaker and Evangelical respectively, would have been outraged at the comparison.
The contradictory elements of Passion and Principle complement Erickson's theme of dissonance. In his youth, the Prince Regent was one of the most popular men in London, but to contemporaries in 1810 he was a grotesque figure whose ridiculous Brighton Pavilion evoked the sybaritic practices within. In 1812 the country seemed on the brink of disaster, besieged at home by the Luddites and threatened by the French fleet. Victory in 1815 brought home thousands of servicemen, and with them the attendant troubles of rising crime, unemployment and radical ferment, culminating in the Peterloo massacre in 1819. Irreligion was blamed as the cause, though not everyone understood or appreciated the rise of evangelical Protestantism: the middle-aged Lord Melbourne protested, "Things have come to a pretty pass when Religion is allowed to invade Private Life."
Despite its short length, the complexity and richness of the Regency period makes it a remarkable decade. Our Tempestuous Day joins a list of distinguished books on the era and succeeds in holding its own. Passion and Principle, by contrast, is a jolly romp through the scandal pages, light and frothy, more Georgette Heyer than George IV.
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