Energy-efficient and Sustainable Computing across the Hardware/Software Stack

Abstract

Energy efficiency is now a critically important design constraint for most computing systems today. Likewise, reliability has always been a top concern, from high-performance systems to mobile embedded applications. However, as technological advances produce devices only a few nanometers in length, and applications become more memory- and compute-intensive, energy-efficiency and reliability become harder to manage. In this talk, I will present techniques—past and present—across the HW/SW stack, for energy-efficient and reliable computing. I will also discuss how these techniques may be used to achieve more sustainable computing in the future.