By Stevie Smith Sep 21, 2007, 13:54 GMT
As ecologically-friendly energy efficiency continues to become an evermore prominent aspect in the world of electronic technology, chipmaker Intel Corporation has this week revealed its new LessWatts.org initiative to reduce energy needs in the computing arena.
Spanning hardware ranging from data centre servers through to mobile devices, Intel’s open-source community project is designed to "meet the growing demands for increased energy efficiency across the computing spectrum."
Intel Corp.’s new green LessWatts energy initiative was officially unveiled yesterday at the company’s Developer Forum by Renee James, corporate VP and GM of Intel’s Software and Solutions Group. Intel hopes its open-source project will see Linux developers, OSVs, and end users brought together to promote the development, deployment, tuning and sharing of information connected with Linux power management.
"We created LessWatts.org to accelerate technology development and simplify information sharing for effective power management across a broad spectrum of devices and industry segments that are utilizing Linux," explained James. "A focused initiative that aggregates the disparate efforts into a holistic system and builds on our existing efforts with the industry in the Climate Savers Computing Initiative will serve as a strong catalyst to get energy-efficient solutions into the market segment faster, thereby benefiting the customers who purchase Intel-based products."
Intel hopes that its LessWatts initiative should usher in increased power efficiency that leads to better growth performance in large data centres and also creating positive financial and environmental effects too. LessWatts should also grant consumer electronics customers with access to improved battery operation longevity that’s continually compromised by the shrinking nature of modern mobile devices and the high demands of the technology they contain.
"The LessWatts.org initiative encompasses several key projects including Linux kernel enhancements (such as the "tickless idle" feature that takes better advantage of power saving hardware technologies), the PowerTOP tool that helps tune Linux applications to be power aware and the Linux Battery Life Toolkit to measure and instrument the impact of Linux code changes on power savings," outlined Intel on its official release. "Additionally, LessWatts.org provides Linux support for hardware power saving features being implemented in current and upcoming Intel platforms."
More information is available at www.lesswatts.org
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