Patent ID: 8904204

Claim:
A computer program product for managing computing resources, the computer program product comprising: a computer readable storage device having computer usable program code embodied therewith, the computer usable program code comprising a computer usable program code configured to: determine a set of processors having multiple processor cores present in a computer system, the processor cores forming a set of aggregated processor cores, wherein the set of aggregated processor cores are distributed across multiple processors; determine a set of dependencies among a set of workload components executing on the set of processors and processor cores; receive a policy, the policy including rules associated with managing one or more of power consumption, heat production, or operating cost for the set of aggregated processing cores; receive a workload event; and in response to the workload event, migrate one or more applications or services from one or more of the processor cores in the set of aggregated processor cores in accordance with the workload event, the policy and the set of dependencies, wherein the one or more applications or services are migrated from a first set of processor cores on a first set of processors to a same number of processor cores on a second set of processors, wherein a number of processors in the second set of processors is less than a number of processors in the first set of processors.