Articles
News, insights, and technical deep-dives on green software from the GSF community.
Call to Action: Spreading the Message of Green Software
In this new article series, Call to Action (CTA), Chris Lloyd-Jones discusses practical steps on spreading the message of green software, especially within organisations.
Meet GSF Org Leads: Colleen Josephson of VMware
Colleen Josephson is a Research Scientist at VMware and the company’s Organizational Lead at GSF. Read about her thoughts on inspiring and implementing the next generation of digital infrastructure.
Meet GSF Org Leads: Timo Muller of Leaders for Climate Action
Timo Muller of LFCA says building truly carbon aware software is exciting and that he is looking forward to being an early adopter of new tech and promoting it among others.
Meet Our Steering Committee: BCG GAMMA
BCG GAMMA envisions a future where sustainability is a cornerstone of software development and shares views on overcoming challenges to green software.
Meet GSF Org Leads: Ziliang Zong of Texas State University
Ziliang is the Director of the Energy Efficient Computing and Systems Laboratory at Texas State University. For nearly a decade, he has been promoting green computing and fostering a green thinking mindset among students.
Sustainable Tech Choices for Cloud
The big three hypercloud providers need clever flexibility and targeted efficiency to achieve CZero. And the changes must come from them as well as from their users.
Sustainability superheroes – CIOs are pulling on their green capes
As human interest drives organizations to rethink their approach to sustainability, more and more CIOs, empowered with increasing levels of digital technology investments, are emerging as sustainability superheroes.
Beyond Single-Dimensional Metrics for Digital Sustainability
Using multi-dimensional, rich metadata-supplemented metrics for measurement of energy consumption include higher transparency, less scope to game the metrics and more channels to implement actions that make systems greener.
Happy Green New Year to You in 2022!
Best wishes from the Green Software Foundation.
Wishing You A Merry Green Christmas and Happy Holidays!
Christmas and holiday greetings from the Green Software Foundation
GPS-UP: A Better Metric For Comparing Software Energy Efficiency
Learn about Greenup, Powerup and Speedup (GPS-UP), an easy to use energy metric that helps developers, students, and researchers understand the energy efficiency of their optimizations in order to make informed choices.
A Demand Curve for Compute
The author borrows the idea of demand curves and different ways to generate electricity, and helps us consider the different ways we can provide a commodity like computing.