Advanced Energy Efficiency, Lecture 2: Industry - Rocky Mountain ...
Advanced Energy Efficiency, Lecture 2: Industry - Rocky Mountain ...
Advanced Energy Efficiency, Lecture 2: Industry - Rocky Mountain ...
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Some unexpected lessons<br />
◊ The tortoise can beat the hare: if MTBF is<br />
shorter than computation time, Green Destiny<br />
beats Q, just as a Camry eventually beats a<br />
blazingly fast but unreliable Formula One<br />
◊ Actual MTBF is often set not by hardware but<br />
by software bugs and by human error in<br />
integration, installation, configuration,<br />
operation, repair, upgrade, etc.<br />
◊ 10 C˚ cooler operation typically doubles<br />
equipment life; at 1.6 V, Pentium III-M (500<br />
MHz) vs. Transmeta TM5600 (600 MHz)<br />
means 122˚C vs. 64˚C, implying ~60× longer<br />
hardware MTBF