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2011.11.24

SUPER OPERATING SYSTEM FOR A HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTER SYSTEM

Taiwan, Province of China

Overview

A super operating system for a heterogeneous computer system for executing tasks of software that has at least one performance processor, a processor supporting logic, and a hypervisor processor. The super operating system has a performance operating system for the performance processor; a hypervisor operating system for the hypervisor processor and a heterogeneous hypervisor software layer on top of the performance and hypervisor processors and below the performance and hypervisor operating systems. Under the super operating system, the hypervisor processor executes tasks that the hypervisor processor has sufficient processing power to handle and puts the performance processor to a power-conserving state. The hypervisor processor brings the performance processor out of power-conserving state to execute tasks that the hypervisor processor has insufficient processing power to handle. The performance and hypervisor processors simultaneously execute tasks that require combined processing power of all processors.