Green: The new color in Information Technology

By:

Shruti Seth

Introduction
Green Use Green Disposal Green Design Green Manufacturing

Profiling Energy Usage For Efficient Consumption

What is Energy Usage Profile (EUP)? A simple Experiment A Simple Fluorescent bulb (60W) 1 Hour consumption: 0.06 kWh Cost $0.0897 per kWh $0.0054 per hour $47.15 for a year CO2 expulsion 23 lbs for 1 kWh 1208 lbs for a year

EUP for Hardware

Server consumption

- 383.75W in Idle - 454.39W in Stress $301.54 per year 7731.8 lbs of CO2

EUP for Applications

A three server application 354W consumption in idle $226.67 annual cost Example Simple write operation

EUP for Operating Systems

Virtualization helps to reclaim about 20% of the peak energy consumption Optimization is the key Disable unneeded services Screen savers Minimize disk activity Fixed virtual disk size

Approaches to GREEN COMPUTING

Algorithmic Efficiency Power Management Video Card Display Materials Recycling Telecommuting

Green Technologies
Power saving by link status Wi-Fi Scheduler

Smart Fan

Green Web Surfing

Greener Google Browsing: Blackle.com Being Green with Yahoo! Greener FireFox Surfing Other Green Surfing Efforts

To summarize
Green computing is a novel and an innovative trend in the world of computing which has minimum or no impact on the environment. Green computing has introduced a range of equipments and technologies which help in limiting the impact on the environment. Use of EUPs help in different aspects of the computing world help in recognizing the areas for improvement.

References
Rajesh Chheda, Dan Shookowsky, Steve Stefanovich, and Joe Toscano, Profiling Energy Usage for Efficient Consumption. Dan Rogers and Ulrich Homann, Application Patterns for Green IT. Walter Binder and Niranjan Suri, Green Computing: Energy Consumption Optimized Service Hosting Robert R. Harmon, Nora Auseklis, Sustainable IT Services: Assessing the Impact of Green Computing Practices.