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Green ComputingFall 2009

Jim Kurose, Parviz Kermani,Prashant Shenoy

UMass Computer Sciencehttp://lass.cs.umass.edu/~shenoy/courses/fall09/6891gc

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Course Syllabus

• CMPSCI 691GC: Green Computing• Instructor: J. Kurose, P. Kermani, P. Shenoy

– Email: {kurose, parviz, shenoy}@cs.umass.edu

– Phone: (413) 577 0850

– Office hours: Thursday 12:30-1:30, CS 336, or by appt

• Teaching Asst: None• Course web page:

– http://lass.cs.umass.edu/~shenoy/courses/fall09/691gc

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Course Details

• Textbook: Reading list of papers available online• Grading

– 1 credit or 3 credits

• 1 credit: class presentations, participation

• 3 credits: course project

• Course mailing list: cs691gc@cs.umass.edu• Pre-requisites

• Familiarity with basic concepts in networking, distr systems

• Good programming skills in a high-level prog. language

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Policies

• Cell-phone policy– cell phones should be set to silent mode

• Slides: – You can use slides from author’s web pages

• It is your responsibility to understand the material on the slides

– Generally better to make your own slides (to improve your presentation skills)

• Projects: can be group project or individual project

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Course Topics

• Green data centers– Control, learning techniques for energy management

– Thermal mapping and intelligent cooling

– Modular data centers

– Virtualization techniques for workload distribution

• Computing for Greening– Smart Grids & Green Energy

– Sensor networks, carbon footprint estimation,

– Strategies for carbon footprint reduction

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Course Topics

• Green Networking– Protocols for reducing energy-footprint of networking

infrastructure

• Green Storage– Solid state disks, energy-management

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