Power generation accounts for about 40 to 45 percent of the primary energy supply in the US and the UK, and a good fraction is used to heat, cool, and ventilate buildings. A new and growing chall...
By now, most everyone is aware of the energy problem at its highest level: our primary sources of energy are running out, while the demand for energy in both commercial and domestic environments ...
If you were looking for lessons on energy-efficient computing, one person you would want to speak with would be Steve Furber, principal designer of the highly successful ARM (Acorn RISC Machine) ...
The rate at which power-management features have evolved is nothing short of amazing. Today almost every size and class of computer system, from the smallest sensors and handheld devices to the "...
In computing systems, a CPU is usually one of the largest consumers of energy. For this reason, reducing CPU power consumption has been a hot topic in the past few years in both the academic comm...
POWERING DOWN SMART POWER MANAGEMENT IS ALL ABOUT DOING MORE WITH THE RESOURCES WE HAVE. MATTHEW GARRETT, CONSULTANT Power management—from laptops to rooms full of servers—is a topic of in...
Modern System Power Management ANDREW GROVER, INTEL’S MOBILE PRODUCTS GROUP INCREASING DEMANDS FOR MORE POWER AND INCREASED EFFICIENCY ARE PRESSURING SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE DEVELOPERS TO ASK ...
Making a case for Efficient Supercomputing WU-CHUN FENG, LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY IT’S TIME FOR THE COMPUTING COMMUNITY TO USE ALTERNATIVE METRICS FOR EVALUATING PERFORMANCE. A super...
Energy Management on Handheld Devices MARC A. VIREDAZ, LAWRENCE S. BRAKMO, and WILLIAM R. HAMBURGEN, HEWLETT-PACKARD LABORATORIES WHATEVER THEIR ORIGIN, ALL HANDHELD DEVICES SHARE THE SAME A...
The Inevitability of Reconfigurable Systems NICK TREDENNICK, GILDER TECHNOLOGY REPORT BRION SHIMAMOTO, INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT THE TRANSITION FROM INSTRUCTION-BASED TO RECONFIGURABLE CIRCUITS ...