Re: DARPA, at least, has a clue

nmm1@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

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If any major vendor
made a "green line" of desktops and blades, using laptop power targets
but otherwise with normal desktop/server specifications, they could
easily reduce then power by a quarter while reducing the performance
by only a factor of two.

Is that really true? I agree that you would save on CPU, but RAM is the same, and presumably you want the increased power of a large screen and the capacity of a 3.5 in disk (rather than the laptop's 2.5). Low end desktops already use integrated graphics so you don't save much there. You might save a little by eliminating the extra ports, etc. but you might want to preserve expandability. I'm not sure just going to a laptop type CPU would save 1/4 of the total system power.


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