Green Information Technology

A Sustainable Approach
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-12-801379-3
Verlag: William Andrew Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 348 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 830 g

We are living in the era of "Big Data" and the computing power required to deal with "Big Data" both in terms of its energy consumption and technical complexity is one of the key areas of research and development. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that centralized computing infrastructures (data centres) currently use 7 giga watts of electricity during peak loads. This translates into about 61 billion kilowatt hours of electricity used. By the EPA's estimates, power-hungry data centres consume the annual output of 15 average-sized power plants. One of the top constraints to increasing computing power, besides the ability to cool, is simply delivering enough power to a given physical space.

Green Information Technology: A Sustainable Approach offers in a single volume a broad collection of practical techniques and methodologies for designing, building and implementing a green technology strategy in any large enterprise environment, which up until now has been scattered in difficult-to-find scholarly resources. Included here is the latest information on emerging technologies and their environmental impact, how to effectively measure sustainability, discussions on sustainable hardware and software design, as well as how to use big data and cloud computing to drive efficiencies and establish a framework for sustainability in the information technology infrastructure.

Written by recognized experts in both academia and industry, Green Information Technology: A Sustainable Approach is a must-have guide for researchers, computer architects, computer engineers and IT professionals with an interest in greater efficiency with less environmental impact.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pattinson, Colin

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Nachhaltigkeit, Grüne Technologien
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Rechnerarchitektur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section 1 - Green IT: Emerging Technologies and ChallengesChapter 1 - Green ICT: History, Agenda and Challenges AheadMohammad DastbazChapter 2 - Emerging Technologies and their Environmental ImpactColin PattinsonSection 2 - Green IT: Law and MeasurementChapter 3 - Measurements and SustainabilityEric Rondeau, Francis Lepage, Jean-Philippe Georges, Gérard Morel Chapter 4 - The Law of Green IT Eva Julia Lohse, Erlangen-NürnbergChapter 5 - Quantitative and Systemic Methods for Modelling SustainabilityAmin Hosseinian-Far, Hamid JahankhaniSection 3 - Sustainable Computing, Cloud and Big DataChapter 6- Sustainable Cloud ComputingKonstantinos DomdouzisChapter 7: Sustainable Software DesignMichael EngelChapter 8 - Achieving the green theme through the use of traffic characterisation in data centres Kiran VoderhobliSection 4 - Future SolutionsChapter 9 - Energy Harvesting and the Internet of ThingsChristian DeFeoChapter 10 - 3D Printing and Sustainable Product Development (Factory 2.0)Wilkinson and CopeSection 5 - Case StudiesChapter 11 - Automated Demand Response, Smart Grid Technologies and Sustainable Energy SolutionsAzad CamyabChapter 12 - Critical Issues for Data Center Energy EfficiencyPattinson, C., Kor, A. L., and Cross, R.Chapter 13 - Community Wide Area Network and Mobile ISPPattinson, C., Kor, A. L., and Braddock, R.Chapter 14 - Thin-client and Energy EfficiencyPattinson, C., Cross, R., and Kor, A. L.Chapter 15 - Cloud Computing, Sustainability and RiskBabak Akhgar, Ashkan Tafaghodi, Konstantinos Domdouzis

Über Autor(innen)

Pattinson, Colin
Colin Pattinson has been an academic member of staff at Leeds Met since 1985, beginning as a junior lecturer, progressing to Professor in 2006 and Head of School from 2011. During that time, his research and teaching has reflected the massive changes in computer and communications technologies, beginning with very basic computer to computer connections, through the development of the Internet to current developments in smart phones and cloud computing. Colin continues to be an active researcher in these areas, with a particular interest in measuring and understanding the performance of IT systems.