International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
Green Computing is a way of study of ending reutilizing and rebuilding of computers and electronic devices is overall analysis. The goal of green computing is to reduce the dangerous material increasing the utilization of energy. Green computing implies to practices and ways of utilizing computing resources in an ecofriendly way while maintaining overall computing .green IT refers to computer and information system and IT applications and predominant strategy to help save and enrich an environment, an increase in the eco logical sustainability in today times. Green computing is under consideration of all the business organization and leading companies with the advancement of new technologies and its varieties of applications. In yester years, especially during last 10 years, computer and IT industries realized the importance of going green an addressing the major concern relating to environment and also to minimize the cost which has led to sharp drift in strategy and policy to IT industry. The importance behind this change arise from computing demand and emerging cost of energy, global warning issues ,this paper present ecofriendly initiatives under way in IT industry and in brief covers the main research challenges which are still gazing to meet green computing requirements. Ms. Amritpal Kaur | Ms. Saravjit Kaur "Green Computing: Emerging Issues in IT" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-5 , August 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd25311.pdfPaper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/computer-engineering/25311/green-computing-emerging-issues-in-it/ms-amritpal-kaur
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
Green Computing is a way of study of ending reutilizing and rebuilding of computers and electronic devices is overall analysis. The goal of green computing is to reduce the dangerous material increasing the utilization of energy. Green computing implies to practices and ways of utilizing computing resources in an ecofriendly way while maintaining overall computing .green IT refers to computer and information system and IT applications and predominant strategy to help save and enrich an environment, an increase in the eco logical sustainability in today times. Green computing is under consideration of all the business organization and leading companies with the advancement of new technologies and its varieties of applications. In yester years, especially during last 10 years, computer and IT industries realized the importance of going green an addressing the major concern relating to environment and also to minimize the cost which has led to sharp drift in strategy and policy to IT industry. The importance behind this change arise from computing demand and emerging cost of energy, global warning issues ,this paper present ecofriendly initiatives under way in IT industry and in brief covers the main research challenges which are still gazing to meet green computing requirements. Ms. Amritpal Kaur | Ms. Saravjit Kaur "Green Computing: Emerging Issues in IT" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-5 , August 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd25311.pdfPaper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/computer-engineering/25311/green-computing-emerging-issues-in-it/ms-amritpal-kaur
What is "Green Computing" and why we need green computing in current Information technology (IT) industry to gain more benefits from electronic devices while we protect the environment.
EDPAC : EVENT-DRIVEN POWER AWARE PERVASIVE COMPUTING FOR EFFECTIVE POWER UTIL...ijait
Nature with its mystique powers have always cared for survival of human beings by providing all means of resources for acquiring energy. Now comes the turn of humans to show our gratitude by conserving the energy by adopting techniques for better energy utilization. Green computing is the universal term used for environment-friendly computing. It utilizes the computing resources in the most efficient way without causing harm to our habitat. Green computing goals include reducing the use of hazardous materials, maximizing energy efficiency during the product's lifetime, and promoting recyclability or biodegradability of defunct products and factory waste. The main purpose of this paper is to integrate the advanced wireless
communication strategies and smart hardware into our real life for the implementation of green computing. This paper discusses the role of pervasive computing towards achieving green computing by introducing pervasiveness in utilizing computing systems much efficiently in support with environmental well being. And also the paper tries to explore the concept of power aware computing and its implementation using
event driven pervasive computing with the support of a handheld device such as a smart phone.
This presentation describes Judson ISD's Green Computing Initiative and highlights the specific cost savings and energy savings of their deployment of virtual desktops.
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
Green IT in the boardroom, Jose Iglesias SymantecIT Executive
Conferentie Greening the Enterprise,
IT Executive, 25 november 2009
Green IT in the Boardroom
Spreker: Jose Iglesias (VP of Global Solutions, Symantec)
At the same time that data centers are running short on space and power, IT organizations are also finding themselves dealing with skyrocketing amounts of information. But such challenges often have a way of presenting new opportunities. Today, Green IT is re-shaping the data center and bringing IT to the forefront in the boardroom. Energy efficiency is not just a set of quick fixes like virtualizing everything or focusing on new hardware – but rather a fundamental shift in how to approach the problem from the start by leveraging an existing investment in software and planning for how to save “green” while “going green” year over year. It covers the entire IT organization including the endpoints, servers, storage and communications. Jose will cover the practical issues of implementing green IT technologies into businesses and what the consequences are locally and across the globe.
What is "Green Computing" and why we need green computing in current Information technology (IT) industry to gain more benefits from electronic devices while we protect the environment.
EDPAC : EVENT-DRIVEN POWER AWARE PERVASIVE COMPUTING FOR EFFECTIVE POWER UTIL...ijait
Nature with its mystique powers have always cared for survival of human beings by providing all means of resources for acquiring energy. Now comes the turn of humans to show our gratitude by conserving the energy by adopting techniques for better energy utilization. Green computing is the universal term used for environment-friendly computing. It utilizes the computing resources in the most efficient way without causing harm to our habitat. Green computing goals include reducing the use of hazardous materials, maximizing energy efficiency during the product's lifetime, and promoting recyclability or biodegradability of defunct products and factory waste. The main purpose of this paper is to integrate the advanced wireless
communication strategies and smart hardware into our real life for the implementation of green computing. This paper discusses the role of pervasive computing towards achieving green computing by introducing pervasiveness in utilizing computing systems much efficiently in support with environmental well being. And also the paper tries to explore the concept of power aware computing and its implementation using
event driven pervasive computing with the support of a handheld device such as a smart phone.
This presentation describes Judson ISD's Green Computing Initiative and highlights the specific cost savings and energy savings of their deployment of virtual desktops.
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
Green IT in the boardroom, Jose Iglesias SymantecIT Executive
Conferentie Greening the Enterprise,
IT Executive, 25 november 2009
Green IT in the Boardroom
Spreker: Jose Iglesias (VP of Global Solutions, Symantec)
At the same time that data centers are running short on space and power, IT organizations are also finding themselves dealing with skyrocketing amounts of information. But such challenges often have a way of presenting new opportunities. Today, Green IT is re-shaping the data center and bringing IT to the forefront in the boardroom. Energy efficiency is not just a set of quick fixes like virtualizing everything or focusing on new hardware – but rather a fundamental shift in how to approach the problem from the start by leveraging an existing investment in software and planning for how to save “green” while “going green” year over year. It covers the entire IT organization including the endpoints, servers, storage and communications. Jose will cover the practical issues of implementing green IT technologies into businesses and what the consequences are locally and across the globe.
The next hope of future is a green computingahmad satar
Green IT (Information Technology) or Green Technology refers to the durable computing of the environment which means eco-friendly use of computers, and it’s related resources.
Energy Saving by Migrating Virtual Machine to Green Cloud Computingijtsrd
Green computing is characterized as the examination and practice of structuring, assembling, utilizing, and discarding PCs, servers, and related subsystems, for example, screens, printers, storage gadgets, and systems administration and interchanges frameworks proficiently and successfully with negligible or no effect on the earth. The objective of green computing is to diminish the utilization of hazardous materials, amplify energy proficiency during the items lifetime, and advance the recyclability of obsolete items and factory waste. Green computing can be accomplished by either Product Longevity Resource distribution or Virtualization or Power management. power is the bottleneck of improving the system execution. Among all industries, the information communication technology ICT industry is seemingly answerable for a bigger segment of the overall development in energy utilization. The objective of green cloud computing is to advance the recyclability or biodegradability of outdated items and factory waste by diminishing the utilization of hazardous materials and amplifying the energy productivity during the items lifetime. Stephen Fernandes "Energy Saving by Migrating Virtual Machine to Green Cloud Computing" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-3 , April 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd30422.pdf Paper Url :https://www.ijtsrd.com/computer-science/distributed-computing/30422/energy-saving-by-migrating-virtual-machine-to-green-cloud-computing/stephen-fernandes
Green Enterprise Computing- Approaches Towards a Greener ITAM Publications
Green Enterprise Computing refers to how business or corporate sectors can deal with the prospect of Green Computing to manage power consumption and boost energy efficiency. Green Computing or Green IT is the study and practice of using computing resources in an eco-friendly manner to tone down the environmental impacts of computing.[1] In recent years, this practice has drawn serious attention from educational institutions, environmental organizations and the corporate and business sector, among others. In the 21st century, the business landscape has also expanded and the use of computers and other power devices has increased tremendously. All these, in turn, bring up the issue of reducing unscrupulous use of resource and power. Taking a careful approach to make our IT industry greener falls in our list of responsibilities towards creating a healthier, cleaner and safer environment, and spreading awareness and ensuring people to take necessary individual as well as collective actions to achieve the goals of Green Enterprise Computing is one of our major steps. [2] In the present paper we discuss how Green Computing can be incorporated into different industries, corporate and business sectors and in various IT companies.
Green Computing: A Methodology of Saving Energy by Resource Virtualization.IJCERT
In the past a couple of years computer standard was moved to remote data farms and the
software and hardware services accessible on the premise of pay for utilize .This is called
Cloud computing, In which client needs to pay for the Services .Cloud give the Services –
Programming as a Service ,stage as a Service and foundation as a Service .These
Services gave through the remote server farms (since the information is
scattered/disseminated over the web.), as Programming requisition and different Services
relocated to the remote server farm ,Service of these server farm in the imperative. Server
farm Service confronts the issue of force utilization. At present Cloud computing based
framework squander an extraordinary measure of force and produces co2. Since
numerous servers don't have a decent quality cooling framework. Green Computing can
empower more vitality proficient utilization of computing power .This paper indicates the
prerequisite of Green Computing and methods to spare the vitality by distinctive
methodologies
Energy Saving by Virtual Machine Migration in Green Cloud Computingijtsrd
Nowadays the innovations have turned out to be so quick and advanced that enormous all big enterprises have to go for cloud. Cloud provides wide range of services, from high performance computing to storage. Datacenter consisting of servers, network, wires, cooling systems etc. is very important part of cloud as it carries various business information onto the servers. Cloud computing is widely used for large data centers but it causes very serious issues to environment such as heat emission, heavy consumption of energy, release of toxic gases like methane, nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide, etc. High energy consumption leads to high operational cost as well as low profit. So we required Green cloud computing, which very environment friendly and energy efficient version of the cloud computing. In this paper the major issues related to cloud computing is discussed. And the various techniques used to minimize the power consumption are also discussed. Ruhi D. Viroja | Dharmendra H. Viroja"Energy Saving by Virtual Machine Migration in Green Cloud Computing" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-1 | Issue-1 , December 2016, URL: http://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd104.pdf http://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/computer-engineering/104/energy-saving-by-virtual-machine-migration-in-green-cloud-computing/ruhi-d-viroja
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Need of green computing measures for indian it industry
1. Journal of Energy Technologies and Policy www.iiste.org
ISSN 2224-3232 (Paper) ISSN 2225-0573 (Online)
Vol.1, No.4, 2011
Need of Green Computing Measures for Indian IT Industry
Shobhit Tiwari
School of Computing Sciences and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology
Vellore-632014 , Tamil Nadu, India.
E-mail : shobhittiwari2008@vit.ac.in
Abstract
In the last few years there has been a lot of hype about Green computing and about providing greener
computing solutions to almost everything. Green computing is a new approach which aims at designing
computer systems that achieves better processing and performance with least amount of power
consumption. Numerous studies and surveys have already shown that the power costs put together form the
lion’s share of total costs of management of a data center. Till now green computing measures had been
restricted to mainly achieve lower power consumption within the organizational framework. In this paper
we have tried to illustrate the importance of green computing beyond minimizing power consumption and
towards delivering better customer value and finally achieving the ultimate goal of sustainable IT growth.
Keywords: green computing; virtualization; server power; sustainable IT ; Green IT
1. Introduction
The traditional approach towards green computing had been that of reducing the overall power costs and
developing energy aware, high performance computing systems. For this purpose generally many
techniques have been developed. But most people have devoted their time and energy in developing
components and hardware that consumes less power. However we also need to consider other aspects
involved in computing for which we need to drop our legacy and start thinking and developing from scratch.
The ever increasing prices of power have further provided an incentive to organizations and individuals to
further hasten up the evolution of greener computing practices to the next level. Several techniques like the
use of virtualization technology, organizing PC lifecycle definition, green procurement and waste recycling.
2. Need for Green Computing
The extensive use of computers and IT has made our life easier and as such the use of IT is ever on the
increase resulting in greater power consumption. Greater power consumption means greater emission of
greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide. It is observed that most of the computer energy is often wasteful.
This is because we leave the computer ON even when it is not in use. The CPU and fan consume power;
screen savers consume power even when the system is not in use. Insufficient power and cooling capacities
can also results in loss of energy. It is observed that most of the datacenters do not have sufficient cooling
capacities. This results in environment pollution. This could be because of defects in Manufacturing
techniques, packaging, disposal of computers and components. Another effect is because of toxicity. There
are toxic chemicals used in the manufacturing of new computers as well as disposal of old computers and
components which can enter the food chain and water.
3. Methods for Green Computing
There are a number of more fundamental steps that can be taken to significantly decrease the environmental
impact of computing. These mainly involve measures for reducing energy consumption. Some such well
known methods are discussed below.
18
2. Journal of Energy Technologies and Policy www.iiste.org
ISSN 2224-3232 (Paper) ISSN 2225-0573 (Online)
Vol.1, No.4, 2011
3.1 Lower Power Hardware
PCs can be made to use less electricity by using a lower power processor, opting for onboard graphics
(rather than a separate graphics card), using passive cooling (rather than energy consuming fans), and either
a solid-state disk (SSD) in place of a spinning hard drive as the system disk, or else a 1.8" or 2.5" rather a
than 3.5" hard disk drive. Intel has launched a dual core Atom processor and accompanying 'Pinetrail'
motherboard which can form the heart of a quite powerful PC that still uses only around 20W of power.
Several mainstream manufacturers are now starting to launch relatively-low-power PCs or "nettops" -
usually based around an Atom processor. Very low power computers are often not able to perform some of
the tasks (such as video editing and games playing) demanded of their more power-hungry current
counterparts. However, being largely silent, they are more pleasant to use. They are also perfectly suited
to cloud computing.
3.2 Virtualization
Virtualization is the use of computer software to simulate hardware. Within data centers, server
consolidation applies virtualization in its replacement of many stand-alone physical servers with virtual
servers that run as software on a small number of larger computers. To their users, virtual servers can be
configured to still appear as physical machines on their network. However, via a virtualized server
consolidation a company can obtain a far more optimal use of computing resources by removing the idle
server capacity that is usually spread across a sprawl of physical servers. Very significant energy savings
can also result. IBM, for example, is currently engaged in its Project Big Green, and which involves
replacing about 2,900 individual servers with about 30 mainframes to achieve an expected 80 per cent
energy saving over five years. To assist further with energy conservation, virtualization can take place at the
level of files as well as servers. To permit this, file virtualization software is already available that will
allocate files across physical disks based on their utilization rates (rather than on their logical volume
location). This enables frequently accessed files to be stored on high-performance, low-capacity drives,
whilst files in less common use are placed on more power-efficient, low-speed, larger capacity drives.
3.3 Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is where software applications, processing power, data and potentially even artificial
intelligence are accessed over the Internet. Cloud computing has many benefits, one of which is enabling
anybody to obtain the environmental benefits of virtualization. Whilst most servers in company data centres
run at c.30 per cent capacity, most cloud vendor servers run at 80 per cent capacity or more. By choosing to
cloud compute and in particular by adopting online computer processing power in the form of PaaS or IaaS
companies may therefore potentially reduce their carbon footprint. As well as allowing server capacity to
run at a more optimal energy efficiency, cloud computing can also remove the need for most users to run
high-power PCs and laptops. Indeed, by opting to use SaaS applications from the cloud, one of the benefits
of cloud computing is that lower power hardware becomes a more and more viable option. It is also worth
noting that the use of SaaS tools may also enable more people to collaborate without the need to physically
travel, in turn reducing the environmental impact of the activity.
3.4 Energy Efficient Coding
The principle behind energy efficient coding is to save power by getting software to make less use of the
hardware, rather than continuing to run the same code on hardware that uses less power. Energy efficient
coding may involve improving computational efficiency so that data is processed as quickly as possible and
the processor can go into a lower power "idle" state. Alternatively or in addition, energy efficient coding
may also involve data efficiency measures to ensure that thought is given in software design to where data
is stored and how often it is accessed. Finally, programmers also need to write software that has "context
awareness" of the power state of a computer and its selected power policy, and so that it can behave
appropriately.
19
3. Journal of Energy Technologies and Policy www.iiste.org
ISSN 2224-3232 (Paper) ISSN 2225-0573 (Online)
Vol.1, No.4, 2011
3.5 Improved Repair, Re-Use, Recycling and Disposal
Hardware repair which may involve the recycling of old computer hardware into a second-use situation, the
re-use of components from PCs beyond repair, and/or the less frequent upgrading of computer equipment in
the first place. Personal computers are one of the most modular and hence the most repairable products
purchased by individuals and organizations. Re-using at least some parts from broken PCs is in practical
terms very easy indeed. The problem is that both companies and many individuals have got into the habit of
changing their computers every 2-3 years. However, with the practical benefits of hardware and software
“advances” rapidly diminishing, such a rapid upgrade cycle is no longer required, and hence increasingly
hard to justify in either cost/benefit or environmental terms.
3.6 Less Pollutant Manufacture
A great many hazardous chemicals - including lead, mercury, cadmium, beryllium, bromine flame
retardants (BFRs) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) are used to make computers. By reducing the use of such
substances, hardware manufacturers could prevent people being exposed to them, as well as enabling more
electronics waste to be safely recycled. Whilst less pollutant computer manufacture is something that
clearly needs to be undertaken by those companies who make the hardware in the first place, individuals
and organizations can play an important role in their choice of new hardware. Both individuals and
organizations are therefore in a position to influence the number of hazardous chemicals they purchase in
the form of computing equipment.
3.7 Further Innovation
3.7.1 Increasing the total virtual-to-physical server presence
There are ample opportunities in every organization to further expand the scope of virtualization across all
platforms and environments present in the organization. A study revealed that almost 90 percent of firms
are already virtualizing or are planning to virtualize their servers. However only 37 percent of their x86
operating systems instances are virtualized servers which is expected to rise upto 65 percent in the next two
years. Another factor is the extent to which the servers and all other platforms are virtualized. To ensure
maximum power savings make sure that the unused servers are turned off and the target virtualization for
servers should be over and around 65 percent.
3.7.2 Maximizing virtual machine-to-physical host and utilization ratios
Modern hardware and technology is quite developed for the purpose of virtualization. However the full
capabilities of the equipment are usually not harnessed. We can go a step ahead towards making the
virtualization process more cost effective by increasing the virtual-to-physical host ratio. It is quite normal
to see a 4-1 virtual machine-to physical host ratio, but most modern day servers can accommodate upto 15
virtual machines(VM).Therefore, virtualizing carefully will not only save the cost of purchasing more
number of servers but also the power, maintenance, cooling cost involved with each server. Generally it has
been observed that most firms are not eager to push the utilization of their virtualized servers beyond 30-40
percent. Underutilized servers also consume considerable amount of power. Hence proper virtualization and
utilization of the servers will result in considerable amount of savings for the firm.
3.7.3 Wireless Network and Sensors
Sensors can be employed in different parts areas in a data center to determine the temperature of each area.
This way it will be easily known which area needs more cooling and where to reduce the cooling.
3.7.4 Computing Power on demand
Developing systems that use up as much computing power as a website operator requires at all times. This
can be in the form of a software product that can ramp up and down the power consumption of data centers
to coincide with the demand of its web company users.
20
4. Journal of Energy Technologies and Policy www.iiste.org
ISSN 2224-3232 (Paper) ISSN 2225-0573 (Online)
Vol.1, No.4, 2011
3.7.5 Liquid-Cooled Servers
Liquid-cooling components are connected to a re-circulating water supply that transfers heat from the
servers to the air outside the data center, which is popularly called “end to end” liquid cooling. The system
can reduce data center cooling costs by 95%.
4. Green Computing Metrics
Several power related metrics can help IT organizations to understand and further improve the energy
efficiency of their data centers. Figure 1 shows the model of a Data center.
4.1 Power Usage Effectiveness
Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) was introduced by The Green Grid in 2007. PUE may be understood as a
metric which has a focus on the Data Center Infrastructure.
PUE = Total Facility Power / IT Equipment Power (1)
IT equipment power is defined as the load associated with computers, storage, network equipment and
peripherals. Total facility power is the total power measured at the utility meter. The PUE can range from
1.0 to infinity. Ideally, a PUE value approaching 1.0 would indicate 100% efficiency.
4.2 Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency
Data Center infrastructure Efficiency (DCiE) was also developed by The Green Grid. As IT equipment uses
less energy per unit of performance, then less energy is needed for cooling and DCiE will move higher.
DCiE =IT Equipment Power / Total Facility Power (2)
4.3 Data Center Performance Efficiency
Data Center Performance Efficiency (DCPE) metric is a refined version of the PUE metric adopted for all
major power-consuming subsystems in the data center is described below. Total Facility Power is measured
at or near the facility utility meter to accurately reflect the power entering the data center. IT Equipment
Power would be measured after all power conversion, switching, and conditioning is completed and before
the IT equipment itself.
DCPE= Useful Work / Total Facility Power (3)
4.4 Energy Reuse Effectiveness
Energy Reuse Effectiveness (ERE) is a metric that is used to gauge the energy efficiency to data centers
that re-use waste energy from their data center.
ERE = (Cooling + Power + Lighting + IT-Reuse) / IT (4)
ERE = (1- ERF) × PUE (5)
4.5 Server Compute Efficiency
The Server compute Efficiency (ScE) metric developed by The Green Grid. ScE percentage over any time
period is calculated by summing the number of samples where the server is found to be providing primary
services (p) and dividing this by the total number of samples (n) taken over that time period and
multiplying by 100. Any server with an ScE of 0% over a prolonged period is not being used and can be
decommissioned or repurposed.
× 100 (6)
21
5. Journal of Energy Technologies and Policy www.iiste.org
ISSN 2224-3232 (Paper) ISSN 2225-0573 (Online)
Vol.1, No.4, 2011
4.6 Data Center Compute Efficiency
Data Center compute Efficiency (DCcE) aggregates ScE across all servers in the data center. DCcE is not a
productivity metric – it does not measure how much work is done, just the proportion of work that is useful.
(7)
4.7 Compute Power Efficiency
Compute Power Efficiency is metric that seeks to quantify the overall efficiency of a data center while
taking into account the fact that not all electrical power delivered to the IT equipment is transformed by that
equipment into a useful work product. Some of the equipment within a data center consumes power while it
sits idle. Other equipment is being used but not at 100% of its capacity.
CPE = (IT Equipment Utilization × IT Equipment Power) / Total Facility Power (8)
4.8 Data Center Energy Productivity
Data Center energy Productivity (DCeP) is a metric that quantifies the useful work that a data center
produces based on the amount of energy it consumes.
DCeP= Useful Work Produced / Total Data Center Energy Consumed Producing this Work (9)
4.9 Partial Power Usage Effectiveness
The Partial PUE (pPUE) is a new conceptual metric where a PUE-like value for a subsystem can be
measured and reported.
pPUE = Total Energy within a boundary / IT Equipment Energy within that boundary (10)
4.10 Water Usage and Carbon Usage Effectiveness
The Green Grid very recently released Carbon Usage Effectiveness (CUE) and Water Usage Effectiveness
(WUE).
CUE = Total Carbon dioxide Emissions from Total Data Center Energy / IT Equipment Energy (11)
WUE = Annual Site Water Usage / IT Equipment Energy (12)
5. Power-Cost Analysis
The growth in computing capability is causing an ever increasing demand for energy. While data centers
represent only a small fraction of the square footage at IT sites, they are a large and growing energy
consumer. At some sites, growth in data center energy use is expected to at least double overall site energy
use. It is evident from Figure 2 that servers along with cooling equipment consume the major part of total
power in any data center. It is therefore essential to identify an approach to build and develop green data
centers mainly through reduction in server and cooling power consumption. Companies need complete
solutions that efficiently and cost-effectively address data center power and cooling. Some such measures
to reduce power costs are suggested here.
5.1. Proper Insulation of data center environment
Data Center managers should ensure the data center is properly insulated with a vapour barrier that isolates
the controlled environment from the building environment. Vapour seals can be created using plastic film,
vapour-retardant paint, vinyl wall coverings and vinyl floor systems. This is a cost effective method, but
most important and often overlooked, factors to controlling relative humidity levels in a data center. Broken
or improper seals can allow humidity from the outside to get in, making it more difficult to cool a data
center.
22
6. Journal of Energy Technologies and Policy www.iiste.org
ISSN 2224-3232 (Paper) ISSN 2225-0573 (Online)
Vol.1, No.4, 2011
5.2 Improvements in Air-Flow movements
Most IT equipment take in air from the front and release hot air from their rear, hence the
hot-aisle/cold-aisle management can be employed for better and energy efficient arrangement of racks.
5.3 Improvements in Sensible heat/Latent heat removal capacity
IT equipment generates sensible (dry) heat. Latent heat comes from people and outdoor humidity
infiltration. As server density or capacity increases, it creates a corresponding increase in the sensible heat
load. The latent heat load is unaffected. Thus, using cooling solutions that can operate at a 100 percent
sensible capacity, except when dehumidification is required, will result in reduced energy consumption.
6. Scenario of India
Indian IT Industry has witnessed huge growth in the last decade making it a unique brand in the world.
However this has lead to increased power consumption and escalation of realty costs in major cities. Due to
the already vast population India already struggles to put an end to its power shortage woes. In order to
remain competitive, Indian IT companies need to adopt green and sustainable computing measures on a
large scale. Recent down turns in the world economy has also forced companies to lower their operational
costs to ensure profitability. Power costs form a major part of the total operational cost for IT firms. Hence
it has become almost essential for IT firms to adopt green computing measures.
7. Conclusion
The ever increasing power costs have forced individuals and firms to develop newer methods and
technologies to more efficient and lower power consumption. This paper analyzed the role of green
computing towards reducing power costs and thereby supporting a sustainable growth model. Green
computing practices go far beyond just reducing power as they can help enhance a company’s image in the
public as being socially responsible. An important technique for green computing is to improve the
efficiency of power distribution as well as the computational capabilities of the servers and computing
devices. The efficiency of the various methods and applications can be measured by the use of metrics such
as those developed by the Green Grid. Finally, a model for the development and implementation of
sustainable IT services needs to be developed.
References
Baldwin, E. and M. Curley (2007), Managing IT Innovation for Business Value, Intel Press.
Barroso, L. A. and U. Hölze (2007), “The Case for Energy-Proportional Computing,” IEEE Computer
Society, December, pp. 33-37.
Deloitte Touch Tohmatsu (2009), “The _ext Wave of Green IT,” CFO Research Services, Boston: CFO
Publishing Corp, 32 pages.
“Green Computing Guide,” The University of Colorado – Boulder,
http://ecenter.colorado.edu/energy/projects/green_computing.html
Harmon, R. R. and K. R. Cowan (2009), “A Multiple Perspectives View of the Market Case for Green
Energy,” Technological Forecasting & Social Change, 76, pp. 204-213.
Ou, G. (2006), “Introduction to Server Virtualization,” Techrepublic.com, 5 pages, [accessed May 22,
2006].
Rawson, A., J. Pfleuger, and T. Cader. (2008), Green Grid Data Center Power Efficiency Metrics: PUE
and DCiE, The Green Grid, Whitepaper No. 6, C. Belady (Ed.), 9 pages.
23
7. Journal of Energy Technologies and Policy www.iiste.org
ISSN 2224-3232 (Paper) ISSN 2225-0573 (Online)
Vol.1, No.4, 2011
Schmidt, R. R. and H. Shaukatallah (2002), “Computer and Telecommunication Equipment Room Cooling:
A Review of the Literature,” 2002 IEEE Inter Society Conference on Thermal Phenomena, pp. 751-766.
The Green Grid (2008), A Framework for Data Center Energy Productivity, http://www.thegreengrid.com
[accessed May 2008].
Shobhit Tiwari is currently pursuing his B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from Vellore
Institute of Technology. His research interests include Wireless Networks, E-learning and Algorithm
Design.
Figure 1. Data Center Model
Figure 2. Typical breakdown of the data center energy consumption.
24