'Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)'
Doi
Abstract
With the rising energy demand in ICT services
and its associated environmental impact, the need for energy
efficient Enterprise ICT solutions is growing. As data centres
account for a large part of energy consumption in ICT, data
centre operators strive to create opportunities to put more
emphasis on reducing energy consumption. However, creating
ICT Systems that are energy efficient by design remains a key
challenge. In this paper, we identify and map contextual energy
information about data centre operations in order to model their
power related components. This contextual modelling is then
mapped to deployment diagram where we introduce greenUML
(gUML), an extension to UML diagrams to improve energy
efficiency through energy analysis at design time. gUML will allow
system architects to reason about the energy footprint of their
applications at design time