Conscious Computing

= Computing that is conscious of its environmental impact, resulting in efforts for reducing resources required for computing: Reduced power, reduced heating, sleeping and suspending processors and processes.

Concept proposed by Martien van Steenbergen at http://wiki.aardrock.com/Conscious_Computing

Examples

From Martien at http://martien.aardrock.com/2007/07/01/conscious-computing/ :

1. Power Plays: How power consumption will shape the future of computing on how Intel is using smart self-organizing principles on chip-level to maximize the performance/power ratio in favour of green or conscious computing.
2. Sun’s Jonathan Schwartz on Switching Subjects to drastically simplify cabling and reducing power and cooling requirements in massive data centers in their Project Magnum and Constellation System.