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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

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