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Nowadays, a smartphone is an indispensable tool for everyday living and smartphone enthusiasts are eager to upgrade the performance of their devices. In this paper we present an approach to improve the performance of a smartphone. The approach involves two main techniques: increasing the speed of the device by overclocking it and optimizing memory usage by deleting unnecessary apps while replacing apps with more efficient ones. Detailed procedures of these optimization steps are provided which ordinary users can apply. Using these same techniques, we performed optimizing experiments on an Android phone and included the results. The overclocking effect showed significant performance improvements and stable functioning with a minor increase in device temperature. Memory cleaning also showed significant savings in terms of memory space in the device.

최근에, 그린 컴퓨팅은 모든 산업 분야에서 가장 중요한 이슈가 되었다. 이에 따라, 에너지 효율성의 강조는 아무리 강조해도 과하지 않다. 상용 프로세서 제조업체인 인텔의 경우도 성능 뿐 아니라, 에너지 효율성을 매우 강조하고 있다. 그럼에도 불구하고, 컴퓨터를 사용하는 많은 일반 사용자들은 추가비용 임이 컴퓨터의 성능만을 높이기 위해 CPU 오버클럭킹을사용한다. CPU 오버클럭킹을 통한 성능 향상에 따른 파워 소모는 필요악으로 여겨져 왔다. 본 논문에서는 CPU 공급전압은 그대로 유지하고 CPU 클럭 주파수만 증가시키는 에너지 효율을 고려한 효과적인 CPU 오버클럭킹 방법을 제안한다. 이 방법을 통해 에너지 감소와 성능 향상이라는 두가지 목적을 동시에 달성하였다. 실험결과, 실행시간 17% 단축, 전체 컴퓨터 시스템 에너지 소모 5% 감소를 보여주었다. 더불어, 전체 컴퓨터 시스템 Energy Delay Product (EDP)가 22% 감소되는 결과를 보여주었다.

More recently, the Green Computing have become a important issue in all fields of industry. The energy efficiency cannot be over-emphasized. Microprocessor companies such as Intel Corporation design processors with taking both energy efficiency and performance into account. Nevertheless, general computer users typically utilize the CPU overclocking to enhance the application performance. The overclocking is traditionally considered as an evil in terms of the power consumption. In this paper, we present effective CPU overclocking schemes, which raise CPU frequency while keeping current CPU supply voltage for energy reduction and performance improvement. The proposed scheme gain both energy reduction and performance improvement. Evaluation results show that our proposed schemes reduce the processor execution time as much as 17% and total computer system energy as much as 5%, respectively. In addition, our effective CPU overclocking schemes reduce the Energy Delay Product (EDP) as much as 22%, on average.