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The Week in Green Software: Green Kernels

Environment Variables

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How to Attribute Energy Consumption in a Cloud Computing Environment

Data centers consume 3% of all global electricity. With the growth of cloud, you don't know who exactly is consuming how much. The first step to being sustainable about energy use is to understand where is energy going. There are a bunch of tools that I've looked at quite some time back but it's a tool called PowerTop. Post PowerTop, I came to know about this interesting tool called Scafandre which goes in and gets you the energy consumption.

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