Energy-efficient cloud computing

Computer Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1045-1051

  Berl, Andreas ^a   Gelenbe, Erol ^b   Di Girolamo, Marco ^c   Giuliani, Giovanni ^c   De Meer, Hermann ^a   Dang, Minh Quan ^d   Pentikousis, Kostas ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PASSAU   (Germany)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c HP IIC (Italy Innovation Centre)   (Italy)

^d International University in Germany   (Germany)

^e VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

cloud computing; energy aware data centres; energy efficient computing and networking

Indexed keywords

BEST-PRACTICES; CLOUD COMPUTING; DATA CENTRES; ENERGY AWARE; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENERGY COST; ENERGY EFFICIENT; ENERGY SAVING; ENERGY-SAVING TECHNIQUES; ICT SERVICES; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE; RESEARCH CHALLENGES; SYSTEM OPERATION;

COMPUTER HARDWARE; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES; TECHNOLOGY;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 77955666390     PISSN: 00104620     EISSN: 14602067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/comjnl/bxp080     Document Type: Article

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