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The energy consumed by data centers is growing every year. Significant energy and cost savings are possible through modest gains in efficiency. These leverage solutions for both economical gains and improvement of their environmental footprint. One solution is Environmentally Opportunistic Computing (EOC), which is a sustainable computing concept that capitalizes on the physical and temporal mobility of modern computer processes and enables distributed computing hardware to be integrated into a facility to optimize the consumption of computational waste heat. In this work, we will review the EOC methodologies as applied in the Green Cloud (GC) framework, and describe application of the EOC concepts to the local and global grid infrastructures.
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Suh, IS., Brenner, P.R. (2011). Sustainable Science in the Green Cloud via Environmentally Opportunistic Computing. In: Kim, J.H., Lee, M.J. (eds) Green IT: Technologies and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22179-8_16
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