Modelling of staged routing for reduced carbon footprints of large server clusters

International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 28-44

  Kist, Alexander A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carbon footprint; Energy efficient computing; Load proportional power consumption; Performance modelling; Routing

Indexed keywords

EMISSION CONTROL; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; GREEN COMPUTING; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

ENERGY EFFICIENT COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE MODEL; PERFORMANCE MODELLING; POTENTIAL SYSTEMS; ROUTING; ROUTING MECHANISM; SUSPENDED SYSTEMS;

CARBON FOOTPRINT;

EID: 84872401115     PISSN: 17543916     EISSN: 17543924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJCNDS.2011.037326     Document Type: Article

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