Microsoft's Sleep Proxy Lowers PC Energy Use

Posted by timothy on Saturday June 12, 2010 @11:52PM from the you-are-getting-very-sleepy dept.

alphadogg writes "Microsoft researchers have slashed desktop energy use with a sleep proxy system that maintains a PC's network presence even when it is turned off or put into standby mode. Microsoft has deployed the sleep proxy system to more than 50 active users in the Building 99 research facility in Redmond, Wash., according to the Microsoft Research Web site and a paper that will be presented at the Usenix technical conference in Boston later this month. ... Sleep proxies allow machines to be turned off while keeping them connected to the network, waking the machines when a user or IT administrator attempts to access them remotely."

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Re:Give them a break by XMode · 2010-06-13 00:16 · Score: 5, Interesting

Reinventing something that's been available for years is not 'coming up with good technologies'.
Now what they SHOULD have done is just cache the MAC of the PC in AD along with the rest of the object (It might already be there as part of the auth stuff) and then mod the remote access client to try and ping first, no reply? Send a Wake on Lan packet.