Energy Efficient Computing

Tim Higgs 2007

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Overview
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Introduction Energy Efficient Performance Efficiency advances in silicon design Efficiency improvements in platform components Overall System Power Management Conclusion
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Introduction
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Users expect faster operation, greater functionality and lower prices from computing devices Energy costs are rising Environmental impacts

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Energy Efficient Performance

energy efficiency

reduce energy consumption performance for the equivalent amount of energy.

increase

Improving the energy efficiency of its products has been an important focus for Intel
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Efficiency advances in silicon design(1/3)

Moores Law
number

of transistors that can be placed on an IC doubles approximately every two years

a corresponding increase in power consumption and heat generation

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Efficiency advances in silicon design(2/3)

Strained silicon
electrons

experience less

resistance and flow faster

Mobile voltage positioning

dynamically

adjusts processor voltage based on activity scales frequency 5/2/12 voltage and based on the need for processing power.

Speed Step
dynamically

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Efficiency advances in silicon design(3/3)

Demand based switching
a

server version of Speed Step technology

operates

at reduced voltage and clock speed until more processing power is actually required

The new Intel Core microarchitecture

In

a multicore system, each core can use cores for special purposes
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a different frequency or voltage

Fixed-function

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Efficiency improvements in platform components(1/2)

Video display devices and power supplies tend to consume the largest portions of power.

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Efficiency improvements in platform components(2/2)

Other components
Dual

Frequency Graphics Technology (Intel DFGT)

Reduces integrated graphics chipset power

Intel

Advanced Thermal manager

Places

digital thermal sensors close to each core's hot spot to enable more precise fan control

Multi-chip

packaging

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Overall System Power Management

Reduce power in non-active states Challenge: failure to respond to a network signal

Intel

Active Management Technology (AMT)

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Conclusion
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The phenomenal growth in world data the demand for smaller, more powerful, more versatile mobile devices with longer battery economies expand and living standards rise in developing nations

Energy efficiency is important for both economic and environmental reasons

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