Publication number: 20130111249
Abstract: The present disclosure includes accessing a local storage device using an auxiliary processor An example computing device (100, 202, 303) includes a local storage device (110, 210, 310), a first processor (112, 212, 312) able to access the local storage device (110, 210, 310), an auxiliary processor (114, 220, 360) able to access the local storage device (110, 210, 310) while the first processor (112, 212, 312) is shut down, wherein the auxiliary processor (114, 220, 360) uses less power than the first processor (112, 212, 312), and a management agent (125, 225, 370) to initiate an accessing of the local storage device (110, 210, 310) by the auxiliary processor (114, 220, 360) if a load associated with the computing device (100, 202, 303) falls below a particular threshold. One of the first processor (112, 212, 312) and the auxiliary processor (114, 220, 360) is able to access the local storage device (110, 210, 310) at a time.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 21, 2010
Publication date:
May 2, 2013
Inventors:
Jichuan Chang, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Mehul A. Shah