2024-03-26 - Green Software Principles & Patterns Agenda

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Date

2024-03-26 - 15:00 UTC - See the time in your timezone https://everytimezone.com/s/ab85f7c5

Roll Call

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Previous Meeting

Notes from the previous meeting: #310

Agenda

• Convene & Roll Call
• OKR & KPI updates
• Review the agenda and suggest new agenda points
• Patterns
• Principles
• Use Cases
• AOB, Q&A & Adjourn

OKR & KPI updates

• 77,078 Green Software Practitioners
• 59 patterns live (v1.2.0)

Patterns

• Passionate about designing green software solutions? #309 (comment)
  • Update on the first session from @pdematos12
  • Next session Tuesday 9th April at 14:00 GMT

Principles

• Social media post to promote Chinese, Italian & Japanese course translations learn#218
• Benefits claimed from demand shifting learn#223
• Contributing a German translation learn#173
• Greener Services Hack Day with Defra, TPXimpact and collaborators
  • Developing a set of principles for the design and delivery of greener services
• Develop a set of post-training "Green Guides" learn#221
  • Review canvas so far

Use Cases

• Patterns Use Case: Microsoft & DOW #297

Any Other Business

[kapokasa]

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[llhardy1A]

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[greenhsu123]

Attended.

[kunKun-tx]

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[franziska-warncke]

Attended

[tmcclell]

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Copilots interpretation of the PDF doc:
Energy Efficiency in Data Centers: The paper discusses the importance of energy efficiency in data centers, driven by rising energy costs and environmental regulations like carbon taxes and emissions trading.

CO2 Emissions Calculation: It proposes a method to calculate the CO2 emissions caused by a single piece of computation by correlating granular energy monitoring in data centers with electricity generation emissions calculation.
Impact of Scheduling on Emissions: The research highlights how scheduling computations at different times can significantly affect the emissions due to the varying carbon intensity of the power grid. For instance, scheduling during high wind energy generation can reduce emissions substantially.

Financial and Environmental Implications: The paper emphasizes the financial and environmental implications of carbon emissions, suggesting that controlling these emissions is as crucial as managing energy consumption itself.

This document essentially bridges the gap between energy consumption monitoring and emissions calculation, providing a framework for understanding and reducing the environmental impact of data center operations.

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Meeting Notes

GSF Learn docs: benefits claimed from demand shifting

• Acknowledged the query and reviewed the study but unclear on what is being raised. Poor use of language? Incorrect values for potential impact? Benefits of demand shaping?
• @greenhsu123 to respond to issue

German translation

• @franziska-warncke hopes to restart the project

Greener Services Hack Day with Defra, TPXimpact and collaborators

• Looked at the 10 proposed principles
• Discussed the trade-offs between greening an existing services vs the digitisation of said service
• Discussed the importance of measurement to identify the impact of any changes to an existing service/process
  • https://github.com/Green-Software-Foundation/scer
  • https://ecodigit.de/en/home
• Discussed regulation as a driver for change, especially within government services
  • Spoke about the challenge of keeping on top of upcoming legalisation
  • Proposal
  • https://github.com/Green-Software-Foundation/oc/issues/82
  • Policy Manual Project Proposal policy-wg#74

Conferences

• Join @cdhaens in Munich at https://www.eco-compute.io/