Google authors make case for energy-proportional computing
Thursday Jan 03, 2008
Luiz André Barroso and Urs Hölzle of Google have written an article called: The Case for Energy-Proportional Computing. You can find the IEEE Computing article here.
They correctly point out that memory (and disk) are a key factor in power used. Too bad that new SPECpower benchmark only favors tiny-memory configurations, and vendors do not publish measured watts on real-size memory configurations.
They miss the fact that low utilization wastes more power than energy-proportional designs will get them, as we've pointed out here
Disclosure statement
SPECpower_ssj2008. SPEC, SPECpower reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. See www.spec.org.
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