CS290N Extra-Performance Computer Architecture
Prof. Fred Chong
FQ 2006
Problem Set 10 (Environmentally-aware architecture design - Alan Savage)

1. Why does upstream waste management for IT equipment potentially more beneficial than for many other goods?

2. What are the three minimal criteria presented for a study of the energy production of a PC?  In what ways did the MCC report meet/not meet these criteria?

3. Is it likely that the net energy balance of recycling is negative?  Why?

4. What assumptions are made in the LCE model and in what cases are they good assumptions?