Sustainability Scans
Improvement of IT greenness at the application level
The SIG sustainability scans address the challenge of energy-efficiency at the level of software applications. Many advances have been made on the level of hardware, network, and data centers. But large savings can still be realized by designing, building, and deploying greener applications. Taking energy consumption into account from the requirements stage onward can make the difference.
The SIG sustainability scans address the challenge of energy-efficiency at the level of software applications. Many advances have been made on the level of hardware, network, and data centers. But large savings can still be realized by designing, building, and deploying greener applications. Taking energy consumption into account from the requirements stage onward can make the difference.
Green Project Scan
Is my software development project organized to produce energy-efficient applications?
- Focus on application development processes
- Determine maturity level with respect to greenness
- Recommendation of practises to be adopted to raise maturity
Green Product Scan
Is my software application energy-efficient compared to similar applications?
- Focus on application
- Determine energy consumption profile
- Recommendation of optimisations to reduce consumption
“The most strategic aspect of energy efficient computing will be the evolution of application software to facilitate system-wide energy efficiency.” |
(Communications of the ACM, March 2010, vol. 53, No. 3. Also appeared in ACM Queue.)
Related:
- In Software Risk Assessments, SIG investigates the technical and economical sustainability of software applications.
- Consortium Green IT Amsterdam Region
- Long Term Agreements on energy-efficiency between Dutch government and companies.
For more information on the SIG Sustainability Scans, please contact Jan Hein van der Linden.