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Cloud platforms are increasing their emphasis on sustainability and reducing their operational carbon footprint. A common approach for reducing carbon emissions is to exploit the temporal flexibility inherent to many cloud workloads by…

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To meet the increasing demand for cloud computing services, the scale and number of data centers keeps increasing worldwide. This growth comes at the cost of increased electricity consumption, which directly correlates to CO2 emissions, the…

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Data centers have significant energy needs, both embodied and operational, affecting sustainability adversely. The current techniques and tools for collecting, aggregating, and reporting verifiable sustainability data are vulnerable to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Syed Rafiul Hussain , Patrick McDaniel , Anshul Gandhi , Kanad Ghose , Kartik Gopalan , Dongyoon Lee , Yu David Liu , Zhenhua Liu , Shuai Mu , Erez Zadok

Cloud Computing paradigm has revolutionized IT industry and be able to offer computing as the fifth utility. With the pay-as-you-go model, cloud computing enables to offer the resources dynamically for customers anytime. Drawing the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Qiheng Zhou , Minxian Xu , Sukhpal Singh Gill , Chengxi Gao , Wenhong Tian , Chengzhong Xu , Rajkumar Buyya

In the context of the global energy ecosystem transformation, we introduce a new approach to reduce the carbon emissions of the cloud-computing sector and, at the same time, foster the deployment of small-scale private photovoltaic plants.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Borja Martinez , Xavier Vilajosana

Nowadays cloud computing adoption as a form of hosted application and services is widespread due to decreasing costs of hardware, software, and maintenance. Cloud enables access to a shared pool of virtual resources hosted in large…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Niloofar Gholipour , Ehsan Arianyan , Rajkumar Buyya

Data centers energy demand is increasing. While a great deal of effort has been made to reduce the amount of CO$_2$ generated by large cloud providers, too little has been done from the application perspective. We claim that application…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Monica Vitali

The transformation to smart factories and the automation of mobile robotics is partly driven by a growing availability of ubiquitous cloud technologies. In cyber-physical systems, such as control systems, critical parts can be migrated to a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-04 William Tärneberg , Per Skarin , Karl-Erik Årzén , Maria Kihl

The soaring energy demands of large-scale software ecosystems and cloud data centers, accelerated by the intensive training and deployment of large language models, have driven energy consumption and carbon footprint to unprecedented…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Jialin Yang , Zainab Saad , Jiajun Wu , Xiaoguang Niu , Henry Leung , Steve Drew

Cloud providers, like Amazon, offer their data centers' computational and storage capacities for lease to paying customers. High electricity consumption, associated with running a data center, not only reflects on its carbon footprint, but…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-02-16 Michele Mazzucco , Dmytro Dyachuk , Ralph Deters

The environmental sustainability of Information Technology (IT) has emerged as a critical concern, driven by the need to reduce both energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In the context of cloud-native applications deployed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Andrea D'Iapico , Monica Vitali

In the contemporary world of dynamic digital solutions and services, the significance of effective and stable cloud solutions cannot be overestimated. The cloud adaptation is becoming more popular due to mobile advantages, including…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Naresh Kumar Gundla

The use of High Performance Computing (HPC) in commercial and consumer IT applications is becoming popular. They need the ability to gain rapid and scalable access to high-end computing capabilities. Cloud computing promises to deliver such…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2009-09-08 Saurabh Kumar Garg , Chee Shin Yeo , Arun Anandasivam , Rajkumar Buyya

Recent years have seen a trend towards decentralisation - from initiatives on decentralized web to decentralized network infrastructures (e.g community networks). In this position paper, we present an architectural vision for decentralising…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-25 Arjuna Sathiaseelan , Mennan Selimi , Carlos Molina , Adisorn Lertsinsrubtavee , Leandro Navarro , Felix Freitag , Fernando Ramos , Roger Baig

Cloud computing drives innovation but also poses significant environmental challenges due to its high-energy consumption and carbon emissions. Data centers account for 2-4% of global energy usage, and the ICT sector's share of electricity…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Federico Ruilova , Ernst Gunnar Gran , Sven-Arne Reinemo

Saving energy is an important issue for cloud providers to reduce energy cost in a data center. With the increasing popularity of cloud computing, it is time to examine various energy reduction methods for which energy consumption could be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-21 Nasrin Akhter , Mohamed Othman , Ranesh Kumar Naha

In this paper, a re-evaluation undertaken for dynamic VM consolidation problem and optimal online deterministic algorithms for the single VM migration in an experimental environment. We proceeded to focus on energy and performance trade-off…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Nasrin Akhter , Mohamed Othman , Ranesh Kumar Naha

Energy consumption of Cloud data centers has been a major concern of many researchers, and one of the reasons for huge energy consumption of Clouds lies in the inefficient utilization of computing resources. Besides energy consumption,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Minxian Xu , Adel Nadjaran Toosi , Rajkumar Buyya

Major innovations in computing have been driven by scaling up computing infrastructure, while aggressively optimizing operating costs. The result is a network of worldwide datacenters that consume a large amount of energy, mostly in an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Walid A. Hanafy , Roozbeh Bostandoost , Noman Bashir , David Irwin , Mohammad Hajiesmaili , Prashant Shenoy

The need and theoretical methods for measuring and reducing CO2 emitted by computing systems are well understood, but real-world examples are still limited. We describe a journey towards green software for a live product running on a public…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-16 James Uther