'Reversible' Computers More Energy Efficient 330
James Clark writes "As Congress continues work on a federal energy bill, a group of University of Florida researchers is working to implement a radical idea for making computers more energy efficient -- as well as smaller and faster." Reversible computing rears its head again.
How exactly am I supposed to ... (Score:5, Funny)
Insensitive clod!
sort of like recycling.... (Score:5, Funny)
Something to worry about... (Score:5, Funny)
Boy, that's something to worry about today. I'll just have to find a spot to insert it on my Worry List. Maybe I can drop Global Warming to make space.
Sigh... I knew I shouldn't RTFA (Score:5, Funny)
Sigh.
Patent office would love this (Score:2, Funny)
Turn it on and it generates cycles from microscopic springs and pulleys, we call "Springons" that can recover the computing power expended, sending the cpu "Wheel" into another revolution.
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funny how all these machines require a battery or plug....
Wrong tagline... (Score:2, Funny)
This is perfect for Microsoft... (Score:1, Funny)
a practical use (Score:3, Funny)
Oh thats not what they mean by reversible? Damn
Wait a minute!!! (was Re:For more info...) (Score:2, Funny)
Worst Article Ever (Score:2, Funny)
I can only suggest that this James Clark seek a career working for SCO's legal department. With his ability to confuse an issue and their desire to do so, it's a match like peanut butter and jelly.
Re:Something to worry about... (Score:2, Funny)
I love my new muitneP processor (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Vaporware? (Score:5, Funny)
Hey, thanks for the keywords. Google turned up lots of nice stuff.
Though that catch is rather a big one. According to the links, as E->0, T->infinity, which I don't like one bit. Arbitrarily low power, but arbitrarily lengthy computation.
So I've now got my own low-power logic idea. I call it the "apathetic circuit", and it works by not doing the computation at all. Same zero energy/infinite time tradeoff, but with the advantage that the basic "meh" gate can be arbitrarily small even to the point of zero area!
words I understood in the above post. (Score:2, Funny)
both
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