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Module details
CO847 Green Computing (15 credits)
Syllabus
- Review of basic concepts related to power consumption (frequency and voltage scaling, electronics, power measurement, etc.).
- Overview of current low power consumption technologies for computer components, such as low power CPU design, the memristor and its applications.
- Technologies for building a green system (especially data centres), including low-power networks, power management in VMs (virtual machines) and power-efficient large storage systems (MAID, Massive Array of Idle Disks).
- Case studies of industry solutions (e.g. IBM Bluegene) and cloud data centres in low-cost locations.
- Practise with design methods and tools (PowerTop) for students to monitor and design an energy efficient system.
Note
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