Tools to measure software energy consumption from your computer
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Tools to measure software energy consumption from your computer
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Re: Tools to measure software energy consumption from your computer
#2Westerners really will do literally anything about climate change except reckon with their corporate overlords who by far are the biggest contributors to climate destruction.
Get real, your app using 15% less power makes literally zero difference. If you want to make a real difference, nationalize and seize energy corporations and whip them into shape under planned economic management. Anything short of that and climate disaster is inevitable.
But of course, they will never do that.
Re: Tools to measure software energy consumption from your computer
#3Westerners really will do literally anything about climate change except reckon with their corporate overlords who by far are the biggest contributors to climate destruction. Get real, your app using 15% less power makes literally zero difference. If you want to make a real difference, nationalize and seize energy corporations and whip them into shape under planned economic management. Anything short of that and clim…
>reckon with their corporate overlords
>nationalize and seize energy corporations and whip them into shape under planned economic management
Genuinely asking, do you think this is an option anyone has? I firmly believe that over 50% of the country could want to do this and it STILL wouldn't be done.
Re: Tools to measure software energy consumption from your computer
#4Westerners really will do literally anything about climate change except reckon with their corporate overlords who by far are the biggest contributors to climate destruction. Get real, your app using 15% less power makes literally zero difference. If you want to make a real difference, nationalize and seize energy corporations and whip them into shape under planned economic management. Anything short of that and clim…
To be fair, westerners are cutting down their reproduction below replacement rate. That's far and away the most impactful thing you can do to cut your personal contribution to carbon emissions.
But yeah, fretting about energy efficiency on the margins is a waste of time and cognitive effort. The world economy and travel largely shut down last year and it barely made a dent in global emissions.
Our choice is rapidly decarbonize energy production and figure out carbon capture or bust.
Re: Tools to measure software energy consumption from your computer
#5All these software depend on proprietary interfaces (Intel RAPL (oldest), Nvidia, Android..)
Wondering how to do the same for RPi’s?
Re: Tools to measure software energy consumption from your computer
#6Westerners really will do literally anything about climate change except reckon with their corporate overlords who by far are the biggest contributors to climate destruction. Get real, your app using 15% less power makes literally zero difference. If you want to make a real difference, nationalize and seize energy corporations and whip them into shape under planned economic management. Anything short of that and clim…
huh? This doesn't really have anything to do with climate change. Energy consumption is an important software performance metric, measuring it is the first step to optimizing that aspect of the software. Normally this sort of thing is done with low power microcontrollers, this article is just talking about techniques applicable to higher level systems.
Re: Tools to measure software energy consumption from your computer
#7Westerners really will do literally anything about climate change except reckon with their corporate overlords who by far are the biggest contributors to climate destruction. Get real, your app using 15% less power makes literally zero difference. If you want to make a real difference, nationalize and seize energy corporations and whip them into shape under planned economic management. Anything short of that and clim…
>reckon with their corporate overlords >nationalize and seize energy corporations and whip them into shape under planned economic management Genuinely asking, do you think this is an option anyone has? I firmly believe that over 50% of the country could want to do this and it STILL wouldn't be done.
As I briefly alluded to, the liberal democratic capitalist economic and political organization of western society, along with Anglo cultural notions of individualism in general, are entirely antithetical to addressing climate crisis, which requires long term coordination and economic planning, not the profit driven hawkery of the "free" market. And extreme individualism feeds into making this level of coordination completely politically untenable in the west. Just look how much people rage against lockdowns and public health mandates as millions die from the pandemic.
The crisis likely will be eventually addressed, but it will be by the successors of liberal democracy, and the multipolar world consisting of the post-capitalist, post-US-hegemony third world.
Re: Tools to measure software energy consumption from your computer
#8Westerners really will do literally anything about climate change except reckon with their corporate overlords who by far are the biggest contributors to climate destruction. Get real, your app using 15% less power makes literally zero difference. If you want to make a real difference, nationalize and seize energy corporations and whip them into shape under planned economic management. Anything short of that and clim…
huh? This doesn't really have anything to do with climate change. Energy consumption is an important software performance metric, measuring it is the first step to optimizing that aspect of the software. Normally this sort of thing is done with low power microcontrollers, this article is just talking about techniques applicable to higher level systems.
This blog post is part of a "green software" movement that's trying to guilt-trip programmers for wasting energy.
Re: Tools to measure software energy consumption from your computer
#9All these software depend on proprietary interfaces (Intel RAPL (oldest), Nvidia, Android..) Wondering how to do the same for RPi’s?
There are no standard interfaces for power measurement. Given the cost-cutting philosophy behind RPi I assume the relevant sensors simply aren't there.
Re: Tools to measure software energy consumption from your computer
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
huh? This doesn't really have anything to do with climate change. Energy consumption is an important software performance metric, measuring it is the first step to optimizing that aspect of the software. Normally this sort of thing is done with low power microcontrollers, this article is just talking about techniques applicable to higher level systems.
This blog post is part of a "green software" movement that's trying to guilt-trip programmers for wasting energy.
Precisely.