[SOLVED] Microsoft releases Joulemeter, a power consumption measurement tool

By Windows Club | May 29th, 2010 . Filed under: Downloads. Tags: Power, Research

Joulemeter from Microsoft Research is a software based mechanism to measure the energy usage of virtual machines (VM), servers, desktops, laptops, and even individual software running on a Windows computer.


Joulemeter estimates the energy usage of a VM, computer, or software by measuring the hardware resources (CPU, disk, memory, screen etc) being used and converting the resource usage
to actual power usage based on automatically learned realistic power models.

Joulemeter can be used for gaining visibility into energy use and for making several power management and provisioning decisions in data centers, client computing, and software design.

It tracks computer resources, such as CPU utilization and screen brightness, and estimates power usage.

Download Page | Product Information.

Thanks iMav@TWCF.


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Problem with calibration!
I need something else apparently.

Yeah, me too. You can delete the post if you want to.

I'll give it a day or so first. Maybe someone knows a solution.

I'm using 117W to watch the Joulemeter Statistics. Seems excessive.

Of course it's uncallibrated because I don't have a meter.

I don't understand the meter part. How can a meter not have a meter? Why does a meter need a meter to calibrate itself?

I wonder if there is a coin slot on the side? Maybe the meter will work if we feed it a quarter!

Somebody try it on a laptop - I assume that's the battery option.

I did find, on the research site listed above, something that may interest me. It is software to create panoramic photos from a group of shots...
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/...roups/ivm/ICE/
I'll have to give it a tr.

OK, I've tried to install it on my laptop. The first attempt to install, there was a message about a delay, and didn't go through. So I tried again, it now says "the specified service already exists". It doesn't, and I've tried the install three times. Something is wrong with this software, that's surprising, being that it comes from Microsoft.

I do know it actually creates a windows SERVICE entry because it indicated when I went to uninstall that the service was running but I never actually went into Task Manager to find the service name, it simply closed it for me.

Maybe if you run MSCONFIG you can disable it and then reboot?