Assessment of the Environmental Impact of Applications in Federated Clouds

Usman Wajid

Abstract

While in recent work the energy efficiency of cloud platforms has been emphasized and many approaches have been proposed to reduce the energy consumption in data centres, the evaluation of the environmental impact of applications running in cloud environments is still a research issue, as well as possible techniques to lower their environmental footprint. In the paper the approach taken in the ECO2Clouds project towards assessment of environmental impact of applications and the evaluation of its potential reduction based on adaptive services is illustrated and discussed, including in the discussion the evaluation of alternative possible uses of eco-metrics towards reducing the environmental impact of applications.

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in Harvard Style

Pernici B. and Wajid U. (2014). Assessment of the Environmental Impact of Applications in Federated Clouds . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Smart Grids and Green IT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS, ISBN 978-989-758-025-3, pages 256-261. DOI: 10.5220/0004946802560261


in Bibtex Style

@conference{smartgreens14,
author={Barbara Pernici and Usman Wajid},
title={Assessment of the Environmental Impact of Applications in Federated Clouds},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Smart Grids and Green IT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS,},
year={2014},
pages={256-261},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004946802560261},
isbn={978-989-758-025-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Smart Grids and Green IT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS,
TI - Assessment of the Environmental Impact of Applications in Federated Clouds
SN - 978-989-758-025-3
AU - Pernici B.
AU - Wajid U.
PY - 2014
SP - 256
EP - 261
DO - 10.5220/0004946802560261