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This document presents a seminar on green computing given by Himanshu under the guidance of Prof. P.K. Pattnaik. It discusses what green computing is, why it is important, and various approaches to implementing green computing like virtualization, power management, recycling, and remote conferencing. Examples are given of data center energy usage and the impacts of e-waste in China. Virtualization, thin clients, and low-power devices are highlighted as industrial implementations of green computing. The future of green computing is seen as optimizing efficiency and energy savings in new products and services.

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Green Computing: A Seminar On

This document presents a seminar on green computing given by Himanshu under the guidance of Prof. P.K. Pattnaik. It discusses what green computing is, why it is important, and various approaches to implementing green computing like virtualization, power management, recycling, and remote conferencing. Examples are given of data center energy usage and the impacts of e-waste in China. Virtualization, thin clients, and low-power devices are highlighted as industrial implementations of green computing. The future of green computing is seen as optimizing efficiency and energy savings in new products and services.

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A

Seminar on

Green Computing
PRESENTED BY:
HIMANSHU
Final Year (computer Science And Engineering)

Under the guidance of :


Prof. P.K.PATTNAIK.

INDEX
WhatisGreenComputing?
GreenComputing...Why?
ApproachestoGreenComputing
HowtoImplement?
FutureofGreenComputing
GREENITForBusiness
Virtualisation
IndustrialimplementationsofGreen
Computing
Conclusion
References

What is Green Computing?


"The study and practice of designing,
manufacturing, using, and disposing of
computers,
servers,
and
associated
subsystems efficiently and effectively with
minimal or no impact on the environment."

Green Computing Why?

Growing public environmental


awareness
Increasing impacts on
environmental and human health
Corporate social responsibility

(Cont.)

Approaches to Green Computing


Virtualization

Power Management

Power supply

Storage

VideoCard

Display

ITEquipmentRecycling

RemoteConferencing&
TelecommutingStrategies

Productlongevity(contd.)

Approaches to Green Computing


(contd.)

Algorithmic efficiency

Resource allocation

Terminal servers

Operating system support

How to Implement?
Audityourdatacentreandremove
unusedequipmentandsoftware.

Virtualiseapplications,storageand

serversinthedatacentrewherever
appropriate.
Considerconsolidatingdatacentres.

Introduce videoconferencing or

telepresence facilities.
Power-sucking displays can be

replaced with green light displays made


of OLEDs, or organic light-emitting
diodes.
Use of toxic materials like lead can be

replaced by silver and copper.

Making recycling of computer with an


option of reuse or resale.

Buy and use a low power desktop or a

laptop computer (40-90 watts) rather a


higher power desktop (e.g. 300 watts).
Thin clients can use only 4 to 8 watts of

power at the desktop as the processing is


done by a server.

For desktops, buy a low power central


processing unit (CPU). This reduces both
power consumption and cooling
requirements.

Buy hardware from manufacturers that

have a hardware recycling scheme, and


recycle your old computer equipment
rather than sending it to landfill.

Turn your computer and monitor off


when you are not using it.Enable
hibernation.

Avoid an unnecessary operating system


version upgrade which requires a
hardware upgrade.

Replace your CRT screen with an LCD

screen.
Keep your PC for at least 5 years.This

reduces energy consumption by 40%

Energy Use of PCs

CPU uses 120 Watts


CRT uses 150 Watts
-8 hours of usage, 5 days a week = 562 KWatts
if the computer is left on all the time without
proper power saver modes, this can lead to
1,600 KWatts
-for a large institution, say a university of 40,000
students and faculty, the power bill for just
computers can come to $2 million / year
Energy use comes from
-electrical current to run the CPU, motherboard,
memory
-running the fan and spinning the disk(s)
-monitor (CRTs consume more power than any other
computer component)
-printers

E-waste Impacts in China

Photos Courtesy of
Basel Action Network

FUTURE OF GREEN COMPUTING:


The plan towards green IT should
include new electronic products and
services with optimum efficiency and
all possible options towards energy
savings.

GREEN IT FOR BUSINESS:


Rising energy prices, together with
government-imposed

levies

on

carbon

production, are increasingly impacting on the


cost of doing business, making many current
business practices economically unsustainable.
It is becoming progressively more important for
all businesses to act in an environmentally
responsible manner, both to fulfill their legal
and moral obligations, but also to enhance the
brand and to improve corporate image.

Data Centers:
Data centres consume a lot of electricity. Many
server computers run at less than 30 per cent
capacity and, although more effective than the
average desktop machine, this isnt using them to
their fullest potential. If you can double the amount
of work each processor does, you can halve the
number of devices in use and cut the overall
environmental impact. A common way to achieve
this is with virtualisation software .

Power to run a small data


center
A practical example
One server might use 400 W
In 24 hours it would use 9.6 kWh
$.10/kWh = $1/day (approx)
500 servers = $500 per day
+$500 for cooling = $30K/month!

Benefits of saving energy


Saving energy is GREEN
Saving energy is cost efficient

Virtualisation
Virtualization: Duplicating hardware with
software
Important in Cloud Computing

Virtualization
Realizing a piece of hardware such as a web
server or file server in software rather than
hardware
Writing a program that does the same exact
thing as a piece of hardware
Savings
Manufacturing
Servicing
Disposal
Power

Types of Virtualization
1.Operating System
EX: Running Linux inside of VMware
EX: Running Windows on a Mac
EX: Running VM images in a cloud
2.Application Server (Load Balancing)
Dividing a high volume of requests to different servers
Applications
Thin Client concept (Google Apps)
Seeing a file system but not knowing (or caring) where the
files are physically stored (perhaps in many locations)

Green Effects of Virtualization


VMware publishes numbers that say between 50-70%
can be saved from virtualization
The Gartner group says that the energy savings of
jobs running VMware alone will power all of New
England! (they give no actual rates or metrics but
this is an interesting claim)
Who is doing this?
The USDA used virtualization to reduce/consolidate
255 servers into 22!
4 Years ago, Los Alamos National Laboratories
undertook a virtualization project that
decommissioned 100 servers, resulting in the use of
only 13. This has resulted in a savings of almost
$1.5 Million dollars

INDUSTRIAL
IMPLEMENTATIONS OF
GREEN COMPUTING:
Blackle
Fit-PC
Zonbu computer
Sunray thin client
The Asus Eee PC
Other implementations

Conclusion
The greenest computer will not
miraculously fall from the sky one day,
itll be the product of years of
improvements. The features of a green
computer of tomorrow would be like:
efficiency, manufacturing & materials,
recyclability, service model, selfpowering, and other trends.

REFERENCES
1.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_computing
2.www.climatesaverscomputing.org
3.a b c San Murugesan, Harnessing Green IT: Principles and
Practices, IEEE IT Professional, January-February 2008, pp 2433.
4.Green IT For Dummies-Hewlett Packard Limited Edition
5.Green IT: Why Mid-Size Companies Are Investing Now
6.Jones, Ernesta " New Computer Efficiency Requirements". U.S.
EPA.
7.INTELLIGENT COMPUTING CHIP-GREEN COMPUTING
8.Report of the Green Computing Task Group Green Computing and
the Environment

THANK YOU!

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