BoaviztAPI: a bottom-up model to assess the environmental impacts of cloud services

Simon, Thibault; Ekchajzer, David; Berthelot, Adrien; Fourboul, Eric; Rince, Samuel; Rouvoy, Romain

Document type :

Communication dans un congrès avec actes

Title :

BoaviztAPI: a bottom-up model to assess the environmental impacts of cloud services

Author(s) :

Simon, Thibault [Auteur]
Orange Innovation
Self-adaptation for distributed services and large software systems [SPIRALS]
Ekchajzer, David [Auteur]
Laboratoire en Innovation, Technologies, Economie et Management (EA 7363) [LITEM]
Institut Mines-Télécom Business School [IMT-BS]
Berthelot, Adrien [Auteur]
Algorithms and Software Architectures for Distributed and HPC Platforms [AVALON]
OCTO Technology [Paris]
Fourboul, Eric [Auteur]
Rince, Samuel [Auteur]
Rouvoy, Romain [Auteur]

Self-adaptation for distributed services and large software systems [SPIRALS]

Conference title :

HotCarbon'24 - 3rd Workshop on Sustainable Computer Systems

City :

Santa Cruz

Country :

Etats-Unis d'Amérique

Start date of the conference :

2024-07-09

English keyword(s) :

Life Cycle Assessment
Bottom-up
Multicriteria
Open-data
Cloud
Environmental Impact

HAL domain(s) :

Informatique [cs]/Génie logiciel [cs.SE]

English abstract : [en]

Awareness surrounding the environmental impacts of the digital industry has led numerous professionals to incorporate these considerations into their work. However, the conceptualization of environmental impacts has often ...
Show more >Awareness surrounding the environmental impacts of the digital industry has led numerous professionals to incorporate these considerations into their work. However, the conceptualization of environmental impacts has often been narrowed to the scope of carbon footprint. This limitation can be attributed to various technical and data accessibility constraints, hindering a comprehensive evaluation, including a multi-criteria analysis over the entire life cycle of digital technologies.In response to these limitations, we introduce a comprehensive bottom-up evaluation method suitable for servers and cloud instances, employing a life cycle thinking approach. We start by modelling the lifecycle impacts of a server based on its hardware configuration. Then, we aggregate these with the impacts of its technical and physical environment to define the impacts of a cloud platform. We finally model the impacts of a cloud instance as a portion of the cloud platform. The proposed approach has been implemented as an open-source toolkit and published as an API. This initiative aims to provide developers and researchers with a tool for conducting environmental evaluations of their infrastructure based on open-data and open-methodologies, enhancing their ability to explore the environmental materiality of ICT products, services and infrastructures.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

ANR Project :

Service de recommandation pour des logiciels en ligne plus durables
Comprendre, Améliorer, Réduire les impacts Environnementaux du Cloud computing

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