Energy Efficiency through Significance-Based Computing.

An extension of approximate computing, significance-based computing exploits applications' inherent error resiliency and offers a new structural paradigm that strategically relaxes full computational precision to provide significant energy savings with minimal performance degradation.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:	Computer (00189162) Vol. 47; no. 7; pp. 82 - 86
Main Authors:	Nikolopoulos, Dimitrios S., Vandierendonck, Hans, Bellas, Nikolaos, Antonopoulos, Christos D., Lalis, Spyros, Karakonstantis, Georgios, Burg, Andreas, Naumann, Uwe
Format:	Article
Published:	IEEE Jul2014
Subjects:	Energy consumption research Computer users > Research Computer research Computer performance Energy research
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost

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Summary:	An extension of approximate computing, significance-based computing exploits applications' inherent error resiliency and offers a new structural paradigm that strategically relaxes full computational precision to provide significant energy savings with minimal performance degradation.