SHF:SMALL:Enabling and Supporting the Development of Energy-Efficient Software

SHF:SMALL：推动和支持节能软件的开发

• 批准号: 1618161
• 负责人: James Clause
• 金额: $ 51.6万
• 依托单位: University of Delaware
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-06-01 至 2020-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1618161&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SHF; SMALL; Enabling; Supporting; Development

Inherent in today?s computing environments are concerns about battery life, heat creation, fan noise, and overall potentially high energy costs. This project addresses how software engineers can design and implement software with consideration for its energy usage. Empirical studies have shown that software engineers currently do not have the knowledge they need to produce energy-efficient software. They lack the information they need to make decisions affecting energy consumption of their applications, and they make incorrect assumptions about the underlying causes of those impacts. This project will address these needs at the software engineer?s level, enabling practitioners to further improve the energy usage of their applications beyond what can be achieved at the lower system levels. This project will contribute to the state of the art by developing novel, automatic analyses to support decision-making with regard to energy usage and will also increase understanding of the energy usage impacts of decisions made at the software engineering level. The project will develop tools for software engineers to discover and apply modifications that reduce the energy usage of their applications. The research is driven by empirical studies that related engineering decisions to energy consumption. The tools and experimental infrastructure developed within the project will be publicly released, which will let researchers and practitioners build on the project?s results.

今天固有的吗？S计算环境关注的是电池寿命、发热、风扇噪音和总体潜在的高能源成本。这个项目讨论了软件工程师如何设计和实现考虑其能源使用的软件。实证研究表明，软件工程师目前还不具备生产节能软件所需的知识。他们缺乏做出影响其应用能耗的决策所需的信息，而且他们对这些影响的潜在原因做出了错误的假设。这个项目将满足软件工程师的这些需求。S级别，使从业者能够进一步改善其应用程序的能源使用，而不是在较低的系统级别上所能达到的。该项目将通过开发新颖的自动分析来支持有关能源使用的决策，并将增加对软件工程级别上所作决策对能源使用影响的理解，从而促进技术的发展。该项目将为软件工程师开发工具，以发现并应用减少其应用程序能源使用的修改。该研究是由将工程决策与能源消耗联系起来的实证研究推动的。项目中开发的工具和实验基础设施将公开发布，这将使研究人员和从业人员能够在项目的基础上进行构建。年代的结果。