A Study on Constructing an Energy Saving Cloud System Powered by Photovoltaic Generation

Author

Yamagiwa, Motoi ; Uehara, Minoru

Author_Institution

Fac. of Inf. Sci. &Arts, Toyo Univ., Kawagoe, Japan

fYear

2012

fDate

26-28 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

844

Lastpage

848

Abstract

In this paper, we consider a way as a cloud platform in keeping with green IT. A cloud platform can create a high performance environment consisting of ordinary PCs. However, it has continuous energy requirements. This is undesirable in terms of environmental concerns, because of the increased CO2 emissions from generating the required electricity. Therefore, this study aimed at realizing a cloud platform powered by solar power and low consumption electricity computation device to overcome the disadvantage. In this paper, in order to provide a movable system, we consider the amount of solar panels and battery capacity required by the system. Moreover, we consider steps to apply a small core server using the ARM processor.

Keywords

cloud computing; energy consumption; photovoltaic power systems; power aware computing; solar power; ARM processor; CO₂; PC; battery capacity; cloud platform; continuous energy requirement; core server; energy saving cloud system; environmental concern; green IT; high performance environment; low consumption electricity computation device; photovoltaic generation; solar panel; solar power; Batteries; Clouds; Computers; Electricity; Equations; Mathematical model; Photovoltaic cells; cloud; green IT; small core processor; solar cell;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS), 2012 15th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Melbourne, VIC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2331-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NBiS.2012.44

Filename

6354935