The sustainability of ICT
Supervisor: Christof Roduner
Talk: May 25, 2010
Report due: May 18, 2010 (First version) June 8, 2010 (Camera ready version)
Abstract:
Companies in all productive sectors increasingly apply information and communication technologies to optimize the energy consumption of their facilities, like factories or office buildings. At the same time, the amount of electricity using by used by ICT systems and their auxiliary infrastructures (e.g., cooling systems) has become an important issue. In this context, several techniques to optimize the energy consumption of ICT systems (e.g., virtualization) are being proposed. In this talk, we will first briefly sketch the problem of estimating the energy consumption of ICT systems and assessing the actual advantages, again in terms of energy consumption, of their adoption. We will then focus on the issue of virtualization and investigate its potential benefits in this context.
Recommended bibliography:
- RWTH Aachen University and DIW Berlin
The implications of ICT for Energy Consumption.
Impact Study No. 09/2008, Septemeber 2008
Note: In the context of this talk chapter 3 is of particular relevance.
- Jonathan G. Koomey
Estimating Total Power Consumption by Servers in the U.S. and the World.
Final report, Ferbuary 2007
- Dara Kusic, Jeffrey O. Kephart, James E. Hanson, Nagarajan Kandasamy, and Guofei Jiang
Power and Performance Management of Virtualized Computing Environments via Lookahead Control.
Journal of Cluster Computing, Vol. 12, No. 1, pages 1-15, March 2009
- Ripal Nathuji and Karsten Schwan
VirtualPower: Coordinated Power Management in Virtualized Enterprise Systems.
Proceedings of the 21st ACM SIGOPS Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2007), Stevenson, WA, USA, October 2007
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