This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Power-Aware Computer Systems, PACS 2002, held in Cambridge, MA, USA, in February 2002. The 13 revised full papers presented were carefully selected for inclusion in the book during two rounds of reviewing and revision. The papers are organized in topical sections on power-aware architecture and microarchitecture, power-aware real-time systems, power modeling and monitoring, and power-aware operating systems and compilers.

Power-Aware Architecture/Microarchitecture.- Early-Stage Definition of LPX: A Low Power Issue-Execute Processor.- Dynamic Tag-Check Omission: A Low Power Instruction Cache Architecture Exploiting Execution Footprints.- A Hardware Architecture for Dynamic Performance and Energy Adaptation.- Multi-Processor Computer System Having Low Power Consumption.- Power-Aware Real-Time Systems.- An Integrated Heuristic Approach to Power-Aware Real-Time Scheduling.- Power-Aware Task Motion for Enhancing Dynamic Range of Embedded Systems with Renewable Energy Sources.- A Low-Power Content-Adaptive Texture Mapping Architecture for Real-Time 3D Graphics.- Power Modeling and Monitoring.- Energy-Driven Statistical Sampling: Detecting Software Hotspots.- Modeling of DRAM Power Control Policies Using Deterministic and Stochastic Petri Nets.- SimDVS: An Integrated Simulation Environment for Performance Evaluation of Dynamic Voltage Scaling Algorithms.- Power-Aware OS and Compilers.- Application-Supported Device Management for Energy and Performance.- Energy-Efficient Server Clusters.- Single Region vs. Multiple Regions: A Comparison of Different Compiler-Directed Dynamic Voltage Scheduling Approaches.