Lesswatts.org – Open source code project enables power-saving in Linux systems

Thứ hai, 24/9/2007 | 00:00 GMT+7

On September 20th, Intel Corporation publicized a community project of open source code designed to satisfy the increasingly demand of power-saving productivity in all telegram systems spreading from servers in data centers to personal mobile devices.

LessWatts.org idea of Intel which coordinates Linux developers with OSV open source code providers and ultimate consumers lays the ground for the development and implementation of the technology as well as revision and share information about the ability of power energy management of Linux.

 

In big data centers, the consumed power energy of the servers creates the limits of the centers’ growth and incurs important costs of the environment and finance. Apart from that, customers and mobile service users encounter the difficulties of power energy consumption’s restrictions when the pin’s space is regularly lessened to minimized the overall sizes of mobile devices. In server and mobile device market, Linux management systems keep vigorously developing in terms of adaptability and market shares.

 

“We develop LessWatts.org in an effort to develop the technology and seamlessly simplify the capability of sharing information which enables the effective management of power energy consumption in the whole device system and also the industrial sections applying Linux,” said Mr. Renee James, Vice Chairman and CEO of the software solution of Intel.

 

“A collective idea which synthesizes different attempts into one comprehensive system and is based on the Climate Savers Computing Initiative will play an important role as a strong stimulus that marketizes the high power-saving productivity products more rapidly. That will benefit the customers when they buy products based on Intel’s technology,” he said.

 

LessWatts.org idea consists of some major projects such as Linux development (e.i. “tickles idle” which enables customers to make full use of power-saving hardware technology), PowerTOP which sharpens Linux appliances to improve the capability of effective energy consumption, and Linux Battery Life Toolkit device group which measures and evaluates the impacts of Linux code changes on energy-saving capability.

 
 

Additionally, LessWatts.org brings about the ability to support Linux with power energy- saving feature for hardware that is originally being deployed in Intel’s current and future bases.