Research, tools, code, libraries, and training for building applications that emit less carbon into our atmosphere.
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- Experiment Impact Tracker Library Calculates carbon cost of ML job
- Beaker (Allen Institue For AI) Captures GPU power inside a container
- carbontracker
- CO2Scope - a solution to monitor in real-time the CO2 emissions of IT services, virtual machines, and servers
- RAPL in Action: Experiences in Using RAPL for Power Measurements
- Tool for tracking and predicting the energy consumption and carbon footprint of training deep learning models as described in Anthony et al. (2020)
- Customer Carbon Footprint Tool for AWS
- Green Cost Explorer A climate related spend analysis for AWS.
- Cloud Carbon Footprint An open-source cloud energy and carbon emissions measurement tool.
- kube-green A simple open-source k8s addon that automatically shuts down (some of) your resources when you don't need them.
- codecarbon.io Python : Track and reduce CO2 emissions from your computing
- JoularJX Java: Sotware power monitoring at the source code level in real time.
- Tracarbon Tracarbon tracks your device's energy consumption and calculates your carbon emissions using your location
- Kepler (Kubernetes-based Efficient Power Level Exporter) uses eBPF to probe energy related system stats and exports as Prometheus metrics
- PowerJoular Monitor, in real time, the power consumption of software and hardware components.
- scaphandre Power measurement (bare metal hosts, prometheus, within a docker container, etc)
- Carbon Aware SDK A Web API and command line for obtaining unified forecast and historical power grid emissions data based on location and time, to help build Carbon Aware software.
- ecoCode A sonarQube plugin for the static detection of android-specific energy smells
- PowDroid A lightweight CLI tool for measuring energy consumption at runtime (based on batterystats)
- FreeIPMI We can get the power consumption of a bare metal machine through the DCMI (IPMI extension).
- ipmitool We can get the power consumption of a bare metal machine through the DCMI (IPMI extension).
- PowerAPI A Linux software-defined power meter to estimate process-scale power consumption in real-time.
- PoweerTOP A Linux tool to diagnose issues with power consumption and power management.
- turbostress This tool generates load and outputs computer power metrics for this load.
- Carbonalyser - TheShiftProject
- Carbon Footprint of Sending Data An online calculator for estimating carbon emissions from network traffic, based on the Shift projects Lean ICT report.
- Clickclean.org Energy footprint of commonly used applications.
- CO2.js An npm module for accessing the green web API, and estimating the carbon emissions from using digital services
- EcoGrader.com An online website carbon estimator.
- ec0lint Static code analysis tool providing hints for reducing carbon footprint of websites.
- EcoMeter.org Analyse the website ecodesign maturity.
- Fruggr Evaluate the environmental and social efficiency of web and mobile applications.
- Globemallow.io Sustainable web development + design best practice reports. Analytics & Ad Blocker reduces energy required for page load and protects your privacy.
- GreenFrame.io Calculate Carbon Footprint of website.
- GreenSpector
- Kastor.green Evaluate ecodesign compliance of websites and web applications.
- Website Carbon Calculator An online website carbon estimator.
- WeDeex - Chrome
- WeDeex - Edge
- powercfg Blog : Measuring Your Application Power and Carbon Impact
- WeDeex Blog : We need a Yuka for electricity to ease the energy transition
- Climate Action Tech
- Climate Change AI
- Green Software Design Community
- Green Software Foundation
- SolarWind Foundation
- The Green Grid
- The Green Web Foundation
- TheShiftProject
- TimeForThePlanet
- Assessing the suitability of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol for calculation of emissions from public cloud computing workloads
- Beyond Single-Dimensional Metrics for Digital Sustainability
- Estimating the marginal carbon intensity of electricity with machine learning
- How to incorporate carbon free energy for Google Cloud regions
- How we’re making Dropbox data centers 100% carbon neutral
- Software Carbon Intensity (Sci): Crafting A Standard
- The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud
- What are the greenest programming languages?
- What Do We Need To Build More Sustainable Ai Systems?
- Why Should Sustainability Be A First-Class Consideration For AI Systems?
- Designing for Sustainability: A Guide to Building Greener Digital Products and Services
- Sustainable Web Design
- Carbon-Neutralized Task Scheduling for Green Computing Networks
- Climate Change and AI: Recommendations for Government Action
- Energy and Policy Considerations for Deep Learning in NLP
- Energy-Efficient AI | Vivienne Sze | TEDxMIT
- Good News About the Carbon Footprint of Machine Learning Training
- Quantifying the Carbon Emissions of Machine Learning
- SECure: A Social and Environmental Certificate for AI Systems
- The AI Gambit — Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Combat Climate Change: Opportunities, Challenges, and Recommendations
- The Carbon Footprint of Machine Learning Training Will Plateau, Then Shrink
- The Imperative for Sustainable AI Systems
- Unraveling the hidden environmental impacts of AI solutions for environment
- An Analysis of Energy Consumption and Carbon Footprints of Cryptocurrencies and Possible Solutions
- Confronting the Carbon-footprint Challenge of Blockchain
- Ethereum Emissions: A Bottom-up Estimate
- A Comparative Study of Methods for Measurement of Energy of Computing
- An experiment-driven energy consumption model for virtual machine management systems
- Let’s Wait Awhile: How Temporal Workload Shifting Can Reduce Carbon Emissions in the Cloud
- Green-aware Mobile Edge Computing for IoT: Challenges, Solutions and Future Directions
- Quantifying the Carbon Emissions of Computation
- Architectural Tactics to Optimize Software for Energy Efficiency in the Public Cloud
- Balancing Power Systems With Datacenters Using a Virtual Interconnector
- Carbon-Aware Computing for Datacenters
- Hiding Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Cloud
- Power consumption and efficiency of cooling in a Data Center
- Supporting energy-awareness for cloud users
- The Case for Energy-Proportional Computing
- The Dirty Secret of SSDs: Embodied Carbon
- Treehouse: A Case For Carbon-Aware Datacenter Software
- A Framework For Collective Carbon Neutrality
- Methodological Guide - Bilan Carbone (French)
- Putting a CO2 figure on a piece of computation
- The energy and carbon footprint of the ICT and E&M sector in Sweden 1990–2015 and beyond
- The Most Important GHG Accounting Concept You May Not Have Heard of: The Attributional Consequential Distinction
- Tracking emissions in the US electricity system
- Energy Efficiency Across Programming Languages
- Google Apps: Energy Efficiency in the Cloud
- Green and Sustainability in Software Development Lifecycle Process
- GreenC5: An Adaptive, Energy-Aware Collection for Green Software Development
- Software development methodology in a Green IT environment
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