Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Middleware for Grids, Clouds and e-Science
Environment-conscious scheduling of HPC applications on distributed Cloud-oriented data centers
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Enacting SLAs in clouds using rules
Euro-Par'11 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Parallel processing - Volume Part I
GREENCOM '11 Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Green Computing and Communications
A Workflow Scheduling Algorithm for Optimizing Energy-Efficient Grid Resources Usage
DASC '11 Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Ninth International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
Cloud computing is revolutionizing the ICT landscape by providing scalable and efficient computing resources on demand. The ICT industry --- especially data centers, are responsible for considerable amounts of CO2 emissions and will very soon be faced with legislative restrictions, such as the Kyoto protocol, defining caps at different organizational levels (country, industry branch etc.) A lot has been done around energy efficient data centers, yet there is very little work done in defining flexible models considering CO2. In this paper we present a first attempt of modeling data centers in compliance with the Kyoto protocol. We discuss a novel approach for trading credits for emission reductions across data centers to comply with their constraints. CO2 caps can be integrated with Service Level Agreements and juxtaposed to other computing commodities (e.g. computational power, storage), setting a foundation for implementing next-generation schedulers and pricing models that support Kyoto-compliant CO2 trading schemes.