Green Information Technology: A Sustainable Approach

by Babak Akhgar, Mohammad Dastbaz, Colin Pattinson

We are living in the era of "Big Data" and the computing power required to deal with "Big Data" both in terms of its energy consumption and technical complexity is one of the key areas of research and development. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that centralized computing infrastructures (data centres) currently use 7 giga watts of electricity during peak loads. This translates into about 61 billion kilowatt hours of electricity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0128013796
• ISBN13: 9780128013793
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.4" x 9.1"