THERMAL MANAGEMENT OF HARDWARE ACCELERATORS

摘要

A thermal manager manages programmable devices that include one or more accelerators. The thermal manager may be part of an accelerator manager that manages multiple accelerators in multiple programmable devices. The thermal manager monitors the temperature of a programmable device and casts out one or more accelerators when the temperature of the programmable device exceeds a threshold. Where there are multiple accelerator images that have different thermal effects for a given function the thermal manager may replace the cast out accelerator with another accelerator image for the same function that uses less power.