Patent ID: 7957948
Filing Date: 2011-06-07
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of calculating a system scalability factor of a computer processor system including a processor, the processor having a core, the core capable of running a thread, the thread capable of supporting a task and the processor running an operating system; the method comprising: estimating an initial value of an operating system scalability factor; estimating a thread scalability factor; estimating a CPU scalability factor; estimating a processor core scalability factor; iteratively combining the initial value of the operating system scalability factor, the thread scalability factor, the CPU scalability factor and the processor core scalability factor in an equation having a set of linear elements and a set of exponential elements to arrive at a result; the step of iteratively combining further comprising the steps of: repeating the step of iteratively combining if the error is greater than the predetermined maximum error; accepting the result as the system scalability factor of the computer processor system.