Benchmarking energy efficiency, power costs and carbon emissions on heterogeneous systems

Computer Journal

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 192-205

  McIntosh Smith, Simon ^a   Wilson, Terry ^a   Ibarra, Amaurys Ávila ^a   Crisp, Jonathan ^a   Sessions, Richard B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

benchmarking; carbon emissions; energy aware software; energy efficiency; GPGPU; heterogeneous computing; molecular docking; OpenCL

Indexed keywords

CARBON EMISSIONS; GPGPU; HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTING; MOLECULAR DOCKING; OPENCL;

DOCKING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 84856866322     PISSN: 00104620     EISSN: 14602067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/comjnl/bxr091     Document Type: Article

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