Overview

1. Introduction

2. What is green computing

3. Why green computing

4. History

5. Green life cycle

6. Green Use

7. Green design and manufacturing

8. Green Disposal

9. Standards and regulations

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Objectives

• Understand the green computing concept

• Background of Green Computing

• Why this is important

• Green life Cycle

• Currently available solutions & Technologies

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Introduction

• World is hurry to define the digital era

• What about environment??

• Green computing concept comes to the stage to provide

eco-friendly solutions to this problematic situation.

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What is Green Computing?

• Also called green IT

• It is an environmental friendly IT where the main

objective is to reduce the harmful materials and maximize

the energy efficiency.

• Reduce the power consumption and thus reduce the

global warming.

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Why Green Computing?

• Growing of E wastage and Hazardous materials

(Manufacturing computers includes the use of lead,

cadmium, mercury, and other toxics in general. Usually,

computers can contain 4 to 8 pounds of lead alone.)

• Power consumption issues

(3% of the world’s energy consumption.

With the rate of consumption increasingly by 20% a

year, 2030 will be the year when the world‘s energy

consumption will double because of the ICT industry)

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History

• Energy Star

• Initiated in US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and

United States Department of Energy (DoE)

• Sleeping mode

• TCO, Swedish organization launched the TCO

(Tjänstemännens Central Organisation) Certification

program to promote low power consumption CRT monitors

• Business organizations (IBM, Vmware,VIA technologies)

(triple bottom line including society, environment and

economy)7

Green Computing

Source: San Murugesan “Harnessing Green IT : Principles and Practices” IT Pro IEEE Computer Society January/ February 2008

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Green life cycle

Source: San Murugesan “Harnessing Green IT : Principles and Practices” IT Pro IEEE Computer Society January/ February 2008

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Green Use

• Conserve energy

(61 billion kilo watt hours consumption)

(Sleep mode- hibernate mode- power plan)

• Vampire energy

- idle current

- use master control outlet

Myths of power consumption

1. Never turn off computer

2. Turn off and back on is more energy consumption

3. Screen savers save energy

4. Network connections are lost in sleep mode10

Green Design & Manufacture

• Green design - Designing energy efficient computers,

servers, printers and other digital devices.

• Green manufacturing - minimizing waste during the

manufacturing of computers and other subsystems.

1. Low power hardware

2. Virtualization

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Green disposal

Refurbish and reuse old computers and properly recycle

unwanted computers and other related equipment.

1. Reuse

2. Refurbish & upgrade

3. Recycle

- landfills?

- WEEE (Waster Electrical and Electronic Equipment)

regulation

- Managed to pieces

- Metal recycle

- hazardous smoke and gasses that comes out from these

processes are captured and controlled to release in

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Standards &Regulations

• ENERGY STAR 6.0

- Active from 28th April 2014

• EPEAT (Electronic Product Environmental

Assessment Tool)

• RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances

Directive)

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Summery

• World basis critical topic

• But no attention from developing countries

• This wants to be discussed and proper way of implementation

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Green Computing

Thank you

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