Building Green Software

Index

Symbols

• 5G, 4G, and 3G wires, What Are These Wires?

A

• Acting (level 3 of GSMM), Level 3
• Adams, Chris, Chapter 9: Measurement
• additionality, Where Do Market-Based Reductions Fit In?
• AER (average emission rates), Perfect Carbon Intensity Data
• AI (artificial intelligence), Chapter 8: Greener Machine Learning, AI, and LLMs, Greener Machine Learning, AI, and LLMs, Control LLMs
  • large datasets used to build larger models, Manage Machine Learning
  • models, growth in size and usage, Growth in Size and Usage
  • use by Google to optimize cooling of data centers, Power usage effectiveness
  • use of AI features, rapid growth in, Growth in Size and Usage
  • use of GPUs, Specialized Hardware
  • use of specialized AI chips, Size Isn’t All
• algorithmic precalculation and precaching, Chapter 5: Carbon Awareness
• Alibaba Cloud, Hyperscale Cloud Provider Tools
• always on, Green Operational Tools and Techniques
  • applications having lots of usage, Consider the Context
  • genuinely time-critical, always-on tasks, Chapter 5: Carbon Awareness
• Amazon, Multitenancy
  • (see also AWS)
  • example of trade-offs of efficient design, The monolithic question
• Android phones, length of support, Software-Defined Obsolescence
• Android Studio, Client-Side Tooling
• APIs
  • carbon intensity data, Perfect Carbon Intensity Data
  • code reuse through, Why Is Most Code Deliberately Inefficient?
  • excessive calls to, Efficient code examples
  • using better, Why Is Most Code Deliberately Inefficient?
  • WattTime, SDK, please!
  • web application programming interface (WebApi), SDK, please!
• Apple ...