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Don’t follow the sun: Scheduling compute workloads to chase green energy can be counter-productive

Adrian Cockcroft

Sunset in Morocco — photo taken by Adrian We want to reduce carbon emissions of our compute and storage workloads, and one way of doing this is to choose a time and place where the “grid mix” of energy consumed is less carbon intensive. The computers you stopped using aren’t following the sun.

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Understanding operational 5G: a first measurement study on its coverage, performance and energy consumption

The Morning Paper

Understanding operational 5G: a first measurement study on its coverage, performance and energy consumption , Xu et al., Three different 5G phones are used, including a ZTE Axon10 Pro with powerful communication (SDX 50 5G modem) and compute (Qualcomm Snapdragon TM855) capabilities together with 256GB of storage. energy consumption).

Energy 130
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Observability engineering: Getting Prometheus metrics right for Kubernetes with Dynatrace and Kepler

Dynatrace

But often, we use additional services and solutions within our environment for backups, storage, networking, and more. Kubernetes-based efficient power level exporter (Kepler) is a Prometheus exporter that uses ML models to estimate the energy consumption of Kubernetes pods. Labels we don’t need.

Metrics 191
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Reducing Embodied Carbon is Important

ACM Sigarch

Chien, we assert that it is impractical and insufficient to rely on quickly deploying renewable energy to decarbonize manufacturing. From the perspective of datacenters, operational carbon includes Scope 1 direct emissions like diesel generators and Scope 2 indirect emissions from purchased energy. Unlike Prof. Chien’s post.

Energy 98
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What is a Distributed Storage System

Scalegrid

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. Understanding distributed storage is imperative as data volumes and the need for robust storage solutions rise.

Storage 130
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Thinking About Power Usage and Websites

CSS - Tricks

Gerry McGovern asked if I had any insight into energy consumption and websites. He was wondering about the specifics of web tech, like… If you do this in HTML it will consume 3× energy but if you do it in JavaScript it will consume 10 ×. Things that lead to poor performance are things that take energy. Imagine images.

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Dynatrace Perform 2024 Guide: Deriving business value from AI data analysis

Dynatrace

Edge computing brings compute and data storage closer to where data is generated to help reduce costs, boost performance, and improve customer experience. With this myriad of concerns, organizations need an automated, AI-driven, observability platform approach that can run specialized analysis on a massive scale through custom apps.