Energy Aware Software Systems
Speaker: Prof. Y. N. Srikant, CSA, IIScDate: August 13, 2014
Abstract
The importance of saving energy in general need not be over-emphasized. Computing equipment of various kinds, e.g., mobile phones, laptops, portable games, desktops, servers, and large data centres, all deserve to be considered seriously as candidates for saving energy. An important addition to this list is the software that runs on these platforms. This talk will provide an overview of various techniques for saving energy in a computer system, both by hardware and software means.
Speaker bio
Y.N. Srikant received his B.E in Electronics from Bangalore University, and M.E and Ph.D in Computer Science from the Computer Science and Automation department of the Indian Institute of Science. He was the recipient of Young Scientist medal of the Indian National Science Academy in 1988. His area of interest is compiler design. He is the editor of a handbook on advanced compiler design published by CRC Press in 2002 and 2008 (2nd ed.) His most recent research includes compiler optimizations for power reduction in embedded systems, performance estimation of programs through program analysis, and parallel programming paradigms and languages. Srikant is currently a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Automation at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore.