Exercise 1: Green Computing
The questions in this exercise can be answered by doing internet search and/orfrom the YouTube videos. Answer to each question should be one paragraph in your own words.
What is Greenhouse effect?
We are legally, ethically,and socially required to green our IT products, applications, services, and practices - is this statement true? Why?
What is Green IT and what are the benefits of greening IT?
Exercise 2: Environmental Sustainability
Read the article in the below link and answer the questions that follow:
According to the article how do you build a greener environment?
Summarize the article in 150 words
Exercise 3: Environmentally Sound Practices
The questions in this exercise can be answered by doing internet search.
Briefly explain the following terms - a paragraph for each term:
- Power usage effectiveness (PUE) and its reciprocal
- Data center efficiency (DCE)
- Data center infrastructure efficiency (DCiE)
List 5 universities who offers Green Computing course. You should name the university, the course name and the brief description about the course.
Exercise 4: Major Cloud APIs
The following companies are the major cloud service provider: Amazon, GoGrid, Google, and Microsoft.
List and briefly describe (2 lines) the APIs provided by the above major vendors.
Part B
Exercise 1: Greening IT Standards and Regulations
To design green computers and other IT hardware - the following standards and regulations are mainly used Epeat (www.epeat.net), the Energy Star 4.0 standard, and the Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive (www.rhos.gov.uk). Use the link provide with some internet search - summarize each standards and regulations in 150 words.
Exercise 2: Green cloud computing
Xiong, N.; Han, W.; Vandenberg, A, "Green cloud computing schemes based on networks: a survey," Communications, IET, vol.6, no.18, pp.3294,3300, Dec. 18 2012
Most part of power consumptionin data centers comes from computation processing, diskstorage, network and cooling systems. Nowadays, there are new technologies and methods proposed to reduce energy cost in data centers. From the above paper summarize(in 300 words) the recent work done in these fields.
Exercise3: Cloud API Functionalities
List the functionalities that can be achieved by using the APIs mentioned in the following link:
https://code.google.com/p/sainsburys-nectar-api/
Write a report (2 pages) about the Openstack features and functionalities.