Study explores computing bursts for smartphones
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 06:00
in Mathematics & Economics
(PhysOrg.com) -- A study team from the computer science and engineering departments at University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan are tackling smartphone performance with an idea about chips that are designed for what they say is computational sprinting. Our approach called computational sprinting is aimed at mobile environments like smartphones, where many interactive applications are characterized by short bursts of computational demand punctuated by long idle periods waiting for user input, they said.