A doctoral thesis, defended at the University of Murcia by the researcher in the Faculty of Computer Cebrián Juan Manuel Gonzalez has found a way to reduce consumption by computers when they have to operate the power system that is activated with cuts light, thus increasing their autonomy.
The research, which has obtained excellent cum laude, try to modify the characteristics of a microprocessor in real time to reduce consumption and to adapt to an outer limit imposed, either temporarily (sharing energy resources) or permanently ( reuse of a microprocessor in an environment for which it was designed).
As innovative aspects, the thesis contains mechanisms to estimate the consumption of the microprocessor in real time, approaching consumption in-flight instructions within the processor much more reliable and accurate.
Furthermore, mechanisms designed to adapt to consumer limits mononuclear processors, load balancing mechanisms for multicore processors and optimizations to reduce the temperature in future processors dimensional (multilayer).
The thesis was supervised by Juan Luis Aragon, a professor at the University of Murcia, and by Stefanos Kaxiras, University of Uppsala (Sweden).
Source: Universidad de Murcia