An approach is provided to identify a disabled processing core and an active processing core from a set of processing cores included in a processing node. The housing has a frustoconical base including a flat bottom provided for resting the timer on a flat surface. The lower temperature of the air means that less air needs to be bled off from the compressor to cool the foil bearings. The device and method may be used for both new tire constructions as well as retreading operations. A USB transaction processing task processed by the USB host controller is assigned to one of the periodic queue head list.