My laptop always seems to be hot and sweaty from doing things, even if I don't ask it to do anything. This is a senseless waste of energy, and it is largely due to design choices that stem from an era when energy was in abundant supply. Mobile devices and the end of cheap fossil fuel are two reasons why we should change, and conserve energy.
This lecture dives into the lowest levels of computing, and explains which energy-efficiency improvements are currently being worked on, and how we should change our style of hardware and software design. We sketch the architecture of future computers, starting at the level of the hardware and working our way up to kernel and applications.
Will Unix be flexible enough to follow this radical redesign?
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Last modified: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:20:22 +0200