Green Software Engineering

Teaching

• Energy Profiling vs. Runtime Profiling | Teaching

  Context

  In present-day times of climate change all industry sectors should bring down their green house gas emissions (carbon footprint). However, the IT-sector’s emissions increase unchecked. The research area for this seminar thesis is the field of “green” software engineering. In this research area one aims at finding ways to lower the energy consumption of a piece of source code when run as a program. Using specialized registers (so called model specific registers) that deliver the cumulated energy consumption of the CPU one can track back energy consumption to different parts of a program.

• Undervolting | Teaching

  Context

  In present-day times of climate change all industry sectors should bring down their green house gas emissions (carbon footprint). However, the IT-sector’s emissions increase unchecked. The research area for this seminar thesis is the field of “green” software engineering. In this research area one aims at finding ways to lower the energy consumption of a piece of source code when run as a program. Using specialized registers (so called model specific registers) that deliver the cumulated energy consumption of the CPU one can track back energy consumption to different parts of a program.