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Adrian Cochrane

@vladh I'd use standard performance monitoring tools. Not only is there a (loose) correlation between how fast a computation completes & how much energy it uses, but also our primary concern should be "Are we the ones pushing people to buy a new computer?"

Embodied energy swamps everything else...

3 August at 18:44 | Wall-to-wall | Open on floss.social
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wizzwizz4

@alcinnz @vladh I think "embodied energy swamps everything else" is probably true, but how can we be sure?

I'm sure this is answered in the literature, so, follow-up: Is this necessarily true, or are our current manufacturing processes unnecessarily wasteful?

3 August at 19:03 | Open on fosstodon.org
Adrian Cochrane

@wizzwizz4 Its pretty much the only point I see everyone agreeing on regarding energy-efficient computing!

I particularly like solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2009 , & I'll ask @gerrymcgovern for more.

As for whether its necessarily true... My best guess is that it'd take a massive reengineering of our entire hardware & software stacks. Probably including new datastorage technologies. Afterall they're doing a lot to be not quite as energy-intensive!

@vladh

@wizzwizz4 Its pretty much the only point I see everyone agreeing on regarding energy-efficient computing!

I particularly like solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2009 , & I'll ask @gerrymcgovern for more.

As for whether its necessarily true... My best guess is that it'd take a massive reengineering of our entire hardware & software stacks. Probably including new datastorage technologies. Afterall they're doing a lot to be not quite as energy-intensive!

3 August at 19:15 | Open on floss.social
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