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What we are doing now

What Barrel OS still needs: hardware tests, user priority in the queue, energy per million tokens, generator control.

September 27, 2026Barrel Digital

The rules work in simulation. Now they must move onto real hardware, one step at a time:

  1. GPU power-limit test under real load: how much response is lost when power is lowered.
  2. Read-only battery reading for weeks before giving Barrel OS any command.
  3. Priority in the request queue: user questions before deferrable jobs, instead of power limiting alone.
  4. Energy per million tokens: the figure needed to justify spend, calculated from real system metrics.
  5. Generator set control and satellite weather forecast, for sites that have them.

We will publish every result here, including those that do not go as expected.