In response to worldwide demand for resource conservation and sustainability, the computing industry is investing heavily in making more energy-efficient comput

The energy consumption issue in distributed computing systems raises various monetary, environmental and system performance concerns. Electricity consumption in

Data centers consume roughly 1% of the total electricity demand, while ICT as a whole consumes around 10%. Demand is growing exponentially and, left unchecked,

With the advent of portable and autonomous computing systems, power con sumption has emerged as a focal point in many research projects, commercial systems and

Multiprocessor platforms play important roles in modern computing systems, and appear in various applications, ranging from energy-limited hand-held devices to