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Experimental setup

While simulators may be tuned to provide reasonably accurate estimations of a particular system's energy, observing real hardware ensures that complex interactions of components are not overlooked or oversimplified. This section gives a brief description of our hardware and software platform, the measurement methodology, and benchmarks.



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Kenneth Barr 2003-03-04