JoseyWales
May 30th, 2010, 02:03 AM
A nifty new program thats in it's alpha stage over at Microsoft Research that measures the amont of energy a system uses. It can be used to do a single machine or all the machines across a network. So far it's been working great for me and you wouldn't know it's in alpha right now.
It measures all components seperately along with the total consumed energy. a must have if you want to keep an eye on how much you are spending to keep you rig running.
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/joulemeter/blockdiag.png
What's funny is i was just woundering the other day what it was costing me to run my computer, what with all the worries today about the cost of fuels and in this tight economy. it's a must have program. my hat is of the the developers involved with this little project.
"Joulemeter is a software based mechanism to measure the energy usage of virtual machines (VMs), servers, desktops, laptops, and even individual softwares running on a computer.
Joulemeter estimates the energy usage of a VM, computer, or software by measuring the hardware resources (CPU, disk, memory, screen etc) being used and converting the resource usage to actual power usage based on automatically learned realistic power models."
Homepage: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/joulemeter/default.aspx
Download: http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Microsoft-Joulemeter/1275061807/1
It measures all components seperately along with the total consumed energy. a must have if you want to keep an eye on how much you are spending to keep you rig running.
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/joulemeter/blockdiag.png
What's funny is i was just woundering the other day what it was costing me to run my computer, what with all the worries today about the cost of fuels and in this tight economy. it's a must have program. my hat is of the the developers involved with this little project.
"Joulemeter is a software based mechanism to measure the energy usage of virtual machines (VMs), servers, desktops, laptops, and even individual softwares running on a computer.
Joulemeter estimates the energy usage of a VM, computer, or software by measuring the hardware resources (CPU, disk, memory, screen etc) being used and converting the resource usage to actual power usage based on automatically learned realistic power models."
Homepage: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/joulemeter/default.aspx
Download: http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Microsoft-Joulemeter/1275061807/1