Electrical cost savings and clean energy usage potential for HPC workloads

Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology, ISSST 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Aikema, David ^a   Simmonds, Rob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive Scheduling; Environmental Economics; High performance computing; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SCHEDULING; CARBON EMISSIONS; CARBON INTENSITY; CLEAN ENERGY; COST OF ELECTRICITY; DATA CENTRES; ELECTRICAL COST SAVINGS; ELECTRICAL GRIDS; ELECTRICAL PRICE; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING CLUSTERS; LARGE DATA; MUTUAL BENEFIT; RENEWABLES; SIMULATION; TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP; WIND FARM;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COST ACCOUNTING; ECONOMICS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; WIND POWER;

COSTS;

EID: 79960733537     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSST.2011.5936911     Document Type: Conference Paper

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