A Catalogue of Green Architectural Tactics for the Cloud

Procaccianti, Giuseppe; Lago, Patricia; Lewis, Grace A.

doi:10.1109/mesoca.2014.12

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“…By applying the EC, perspective different trade‐offs are possible. For example, to exchange modules or services for more energy efficient sustainable variants, such as cloud federation …”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Increased performance, a quality attribute for the software, does not always have a direct relation with EC . A different design trade‐off is to exchange modules or services for more energy efficient sustainable variants, eg, cloud federation . Software architecture helps to identify adjustments on different levels in complex environments …”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Energy efficiency on the product roadmap: An empirical study across releases of a software product

Jagroep

Procaccianti

Werf

et al. 2017

J Software Evolu Process

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SUMMARYIn the quest for energy efficient ICT, research has mostly focused on the role of hardware. However, the impact of software on energy consumption has been acknowledged as significant by researchers in software engineering. In spite of that, due to cost and time constraints, many software producing organizations are unable to effectively measure software energy consumption preventing them to include energy efficiency in the product roadmap. In this paper, we apply a software energy profiling method to reliably compare the energy consumed by a commercial software product across two consecutive releases. We demonstrate how the method can be applied and provide an in-depth analysis of energy consumption of software components. Additionally, we investigate the added value of these measurement for multiple stakeholders in a software producing organization, by means of semi-structured interviews. Our results show how the introduction of an encryption module caused a noticeable increase in the energy consumption of the product. Such results were deemed valuable by the stakeholders and provided insights on how specific software changes might affect energy consumption. In addition, our interviews show that such a quantification of software energy consumption helps to create awareness and eventually consider energy efficiency aspects when planning software releases.

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“…By applying the EC, perspective different trade‐offs are possible. For example, to exchange modules or services for more energy efficient sustainable variants, such as cloud federation …”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Energy efficiency on the product roadmap: An empirical study across releases of a software product

Jagroep

Procaccianti

Werf

et al. 2017

J Software Evolu Process

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“…In [16], for example, 'performance efficiency' (ISO 25010) is transformed into 'energy efficiency' with three high-level issues; energy behavior, capacity and resource utilization. Also 'energy efficiency' itself has been positioned as a QA [29].…”

Section: Sustainability As a Quality Attributementioning

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“…In [29] a catalog is presented consisting of the energy monitoring, self-adaptation and cloud federation categories. The categories are aimed at respectively collecting power consumption information on infrastructure and software component level, optimizing during run-time and finding the most energy efficient services to perform a task, and include several tactics that address energy efficiency in the cloud.…”

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confidence: 99%

Extending software architecture views with an energy consumption perspective

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The rising energy consumption of the ICT industry has triggered a quest for more sustainable, i.e. energy efficient, ICT solutions. Software plays an essential role in finding these solutions, as software is identified as the true consumer of power. However, in this context, software is often treated as a single, complex entity instead of the interrelated elements that it actually consists of. Although useful results can be gained, this approach fails to provide detailed insight in the elements that invoke specific energy consumption behavior. As a result, software vendors are not able to address energy consumption on software level. In this paper, we propose an energy consumption perspective on software architecture as a means to provide this insight and enable analysis on the architectural elements that are the actual drivers behind the energy consumption. In support of this perspective, we also position sustainability as a potential quality attribute thereby provide a means to quantify energy consumption aspects related to software. In a case study using a commercial software product the perspective and quality attribute are applied, demonstrating the potential by achieving an energy consumption saving of 67.1 %.

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“…Recently, [24] formalized intents about a wide range of security requirements. Lago et al started a library of intents in the domain of cloud-based software [77,61]. Despite their long history, the adoption of goal modelling techniques is still low.…”

Section: Tud-serg-2016-021mentioning

confidence: 99%

Software that Meets Its Intent

Huisman

Bos

Brinkkemper

et al. 2016

Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation: Discussion, Dissemination, Applications

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Software is widely used, and society increasingly depends on its reliability. However, software has become so complex and it evolves so quickly that we fail to keep it under control. Therefore, we propose intents: fundamental laws that capture a software systems' intended behavior (resilient, secure, safe, sustainable, etc.). The realization of this idea requires novel theories, algorithms, tools, and techniques to discover, express, verify, and evolve software intents. Thus, future software systems will be able to verify themselves that they meet their intents. Moreover, they will be able to respond to deviations from intents through selfcorrection. In this article we propose a research agenda, outlining which novel theories, algorithms and tools are required.

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A Catalogue of Green Architectural Tactics for the Cloud

Cited by 13 publications

References 23 publications

Energy efficiency on the product roadmap: An empirical study across releases of a software product

Energy efficiency on the product roadmap: An empirical study across releases of a software product

Extending software architecture views with an energy consumption perspective

Software that Meets Its Intent

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