Granola Reduces CPU Usage To Save Energy

As the world experienced climate change, more and more people became aware of importance of taking care of nature and our environment. On IT industry, Green computing is being practice in several companies. One of the common environment friendly goal is to save energy on computers, servers, monitors, printers, storage devices, and networking and communications systems. On this site, I already discussed some energy saving tool you can use on your personal computers, example is an app that can auto turn-off your monitor. Today I stumbled with another energy-saving tool that reduces CPU usage to save energy.

Granola is a free application for Microsoft and Linux that can lower the total system energy use by 10-35% even when a system is 100% utilized. It optimizes your computer system to use energy more efficiently without compromising performance or availability.



To Run the app, just launch it and the percentage of CPU energy saved is automatically displayed. It reduces the CPU energy depending on the Settings defined which you can customize by moving the slider from lowest speed up to highest power. On the main form, it shows the vital information, such as number of kWh, money, and CO2, that will be saved annually.

Granola works on Windows and Linux.

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