Option to estimate and subtract the background power usage

lfwa / carbontracker

Track and predict the energy consumption and carbon footprint of training deep learning models.

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Option to estimate and subtract the background power usage #84

Open lnicola opened 1 month ago

lnicola commented 1 month ago

This can be implemented externally, but here's an idea to make the estimates more precise: sleep for X seconds, measure the power usage, run the task, then subtract the background usage scaled to the duration of the task.

This can it easier to compare different implementations of a task.