scholarly journals Et2: A Metric for Time and Energy Efficiency of Computation

Author(s):  
Alain J. Martin ◽  
Mika Nyström ◽  
Paul I. Pénzes
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Ellyta Ellyta ◽  
Mulyati Mulyati ◽  
Hery Medianto Kurniawan ◽  
Ekawati Ekawati

The use of agricultural tools and machinery has become a primary needs of farmers in processing and increasing their farming production, this activity encourages the emergence of agricultural tools and machinery service unit (UPJA) that has an intention in assistaining farmers in achieving time and energy efficiency and also in order to overcome scarcity of farmer resources in processing their farming. However, the delayed development of UPJA in several regions has encouraged this research in order to analyze farmers' responses to the use of agricultural tools and machinery service unit. Research method: This study was conducted at the Bukit Raya UPJA Village Pak Leheng Toho District from January - March 2018. This research used the descriptive analysis data, which was displayed in table form with several categories that have been determined based on aspects of knowledge, attitude, and skills. Response measurements were carried out using a Likert scale (scoring) with a score of 1-5. The results of the all of the farmer showed that the response analysis from the aspects of knowledge, attitude, and skills of UPJA Bukit Raya amounted to 3.48 in the good category, which means that farmers generally gave a good respond to the existence of the UPJA Bukit Raya Village, in Pak Leheng Village, Toho District.Keywords: Agricultural Machinery, Farmer Energy Efficiency, Likert Scale


2021 ◽  
Vol Volume 34 - 2020 - Special... ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Pierre Dembele ◽  
Ladjel Bellatreche ◽  
Carlos Ordonez ◽  
Nabil Gmati ◽  
Mathieu Roche ◽  
...  

Soumission à Episciences International audience Computers and electronic machines in businesses consume a significant amount of electricity, releasing carbon dioxide (CO2), which contributes to greenhouse gas emissions. Energy efficiency is a pressing concern in IT systems, ranging from mobile devices to large servers in data centers, in order to be more environmentally responsible. In order to meet the growing demands in the awareness of excessive energy consumption, many initiatives have been launched on energy efficiency for big data processing covering electronic components, software and applications. Query optimizers are one of the most power consuming components of a DBMS. They can be modified to take into account the energetical cost of query plans by using energy-based cost models with the aim of reducing the power consumption of computer systems. In this paper, we study, describe and evaluate the design of three energy cost models whose values of energy sensitive parameters are determined using the Nonlinear Regression and the Random Forests techniques. To this end, we study in depth the operating principle of the selected DBMS and present an analysis comparing the performance time and energy consumption of typical queries in the TPC benchmark. We perform extensive experiments on a physical testbed based on PostreSQL, MontetDB and Hyrise systems using workloads generatedusing our chosen benchmark to validate our proposal. Les ordinateurs et les machines électroniques des entreprises consomment une quantité importante d’électricité, libérant ainsi du dioxyde de carbone (CO2), qui contribue aux émissions de gaz à effet de serre. L’efficacité énergétique est une préoccupation urgente dans les systèmesinformatiques, partant des équipements mobiles aux grands serveurs dans les centres de données, afin d’être plus respectueux envers l’environnement. Afin de répondre aux exigences croissantes en matière de sensibilisation à l’utilisation excessive de l’énergie, de nombreuses initiatives ont été lancées sur l’efficacité énergétique pour le traitement des données massives couvrant les composantsélectroniques, les logiciels et les applications. Les optimiseurs de requêtes sont l’un des composants les plus énergivores d’un SGBD. Ils peuvent être modifiés pour prendre en compte le coût énergétique des plans des requêtes à l’aide des modèles de coût énergétiques intégrés dans l’optimiseur dans le but de réduire la consommation électrique des systèmes informatiques. Dans cet article, nousétudions, décrivons et évaluons la conception de trois modèles de coût énergétique dont les valeurs des paramètres sensibles à l’énergie sont définis en utilisant la technique de la Régression non linéaire et la technique des forêts aléatoires. Pour ce fait, nous menons une étude approfondie du principe de fonctionnement des SGBD choisis et présentons une analyse des performances en termes de temps et énergie sur des requêtes typiques du benchmarks TPC-H. Nous effectuons des expériences approfondies basées sur les systèmes PostgreSQL, MonetDB et Hyrise en utilisant un jeu de données généré à partir du benchmarks TPC-H afin de valider nos propositions.


Author(s):  
John Broderick ◽  
Dawn Tilbury ◽  
Ella Atkins

This paper presents a method to compare area coverage paths in the context of energy efficiency. We examine cover-age paths created from the Boustrophedon Decomposition and Spanning Tree methods in an optimal control setting. Our cost function weights the force inputs to drive the robot and the currently uncovered region. We derive an optimal traversal of the path in a point-to-point manner. In particular, we introduce a meas function that represents the percentage of the area that is still to be visited. The effect of meas on the optimal traversal is derived. Trade-offs between area covered versus the time and energy required are presented. A simple trajectory modification allows the vehicle to continue moving through a turn to reduce energy consumption.


2019 ◽  
Vol 86 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dumitrel Loghin ◽  
Yong Meng Teo

Author(s):  
Xiaolong Feng ◽  
Daniel Wa¨ppling ◽  
Hans Andersson ◽  
Johan O¨lvander ◽  
Mehdi Tarkian

It has become a common practice to conduct simulation-based design of industrial robotic cells, where Mechatronic system model of an industrial robot is used to accurately predict robot performance characteristics like cycle time, critical component lifetime, and energy efficiency. However, current robot programming systems do not usually provide functionality for finding the optimal design of robotic cells. Robot cell designers therefore still face significant challenge to manually search in design space for achieving optimal robot cell design in consideration of productivity measured by the cycle time, lifetime, and energy efficiency. In addition, robot cell designers experience even more challenge to consider the trade-offs between cycle time and lifetime as well as cycle time and energy efficiency. In this work, utilization of multi-objective optimization to optimal design of the work cell of an industrial robot is investigated. Solution space and Pareto front are obtained and used to demonstrate the trade-offs between cycle-time and critical component lifetime as well as cycle-time and energy efficiency of an industrial robot. Two types of multi-objective optimization have been investigated and benchmarked using optimal design problem of robotic work cells: 1) single-objective optimization constructed using Weighted Compromise Programming (WCP) of multiple objectives and 2) Pareto front optimization using multi-objective generic algorithm (MOGA-II). Of the industrial robotics significance, a combined design optimization problem is investigated, where design space consisting of design variables defining robot task placement and robot drive-train are simultaneously searched. Optimization efficiency and interesting trade-offs have been explored and successful results demonstrated.


2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 18-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio Scordino ◽  
Luca Abeni ◽  
Juri Lelli

Author(s):  
Thanawut Thanavanich ◽  
Putchong Uthayopas

An inefficient energy consumption of computing resources in a large cloud datacenter is a very important issue since the energy cost is now a major part of the operating expense. In this paper, the challenge of scheduling a parallel application on a cloud platform to achieve both time and energy efficiency is addressed by two new proposed algorithms Enhancing Heterogonous Earliest Finish Time (EHEFT) and Enhancing Critical Path on a Processor (ECPOP). The objective of these two algorithms is to reduce the energy consumption while achieving the best execution makespan. The algorithms use a metric that identifies and turns off the inefficient processors to reduce energy consumption. Then, the application tasks are rescheduled on fewer processors to obtain better energy efficiency. The experimental results from the simulation using real-world application workload show that the proposed algorithms not only reduce the energy consumption, but also maintain an acceptable scheduling quality. Thus, these algorithms can be employed to substantially reduce the operating cost in a large cloud computing system.


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