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Energy Consumption and Hardware Utilization of Standard Software: Methods and Measurements for Software Sustainability

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The ubiquity of information and communication technologies (ICT) results in substantial amounts of energy consumption and thus, CO2-emissions. Since software induces the energy consumption of hardware, some reliable procedures and tests for measuring software are necessary. We present such a method and prove our measurement concept by applying it to two software product groups: word processors and content management systems. Even though the two groups are very different in terms of their requirements, we were successful in the creation of a measurement environment that supports the production of reliable, verifiable results, allowing the comparison of the energy consumption induced by software systems with similar functionality. The method shows viable results for desktop and client-server systems, paving the way for further setups like e.g. mobile and embedded devices.

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Notes

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    See http://green-software-engineering.de/en/projekte/ufoplan-ssd-2015.html [2017-04-23].

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    Janitza UMG 604 (https://www.janitza.com/umg-604.html [2017-04-23]).

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    We use the performance monitor included in MS Windows (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc749249(v=ws.11).aspx [2017-04-26]) or the “collectl” package for Linux (http://collectl.sourceforge.net/ [2017-04-26]).

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    Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24440 [2017-04-22]).

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    Technically, the templates are based on the prefabricated designs from the “Bootstrap” web framework (http://getbootstrap.com/ [2017-04-22]).

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Acknowledgements

The work for this paper was supported by the UFOPLAN-SSD project, funded by the German Federal Environmental Agency (Umweltbundesamt - UBA).

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  1. University of Applied Sciences Trier, Environmental Campus Birkenfeld, Institute for Software Systems, Birkenfeld, Germany

    Achim Guldner, Marcel Garling, Marlies Morgen, Stefan Naumann & Eva Kern

  2. Leuphana University Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany

    Eva Kern

  3. Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Lorenz M. Hilty

  4. Technology and Society Lab, Empa Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, St. Gallen, Switzerland

    Lorenz M. Hilty

  5. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

    Lorenz M. Hilty

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  1. Environmental Research and Innovation, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Esch/Alzette, Luxembourg

    Benoît Otjacques

  2. Environmental Research and Innovation, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Esch/Alzette, Luxembourg

    Patrik Hitzelberger

  3. Institut für Softwaresysteme in Wirtschaft, Umwelt und Verwaltung, Hochschule Trier - Umwelt-Campus Birkenfeld, Birkenfeld , Germany

    Stefan Naumann

  4. Environmental Informatics, University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany

    Volker Wohlgemuth

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Guldner, A., Garling, M., Morgen, M., Naumann, S., Kern, E., Hilty, L.M. (2018). Energy Consumption and Hardware Utilization of Standard Software: Methods and Measurements for Software Sustainability. In: Otjacques, B., Hitzelberger, P., Naumann, S., Wohlgemuth, V. (eds) From Science to Society. Progress in IS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65687-8_22

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