This book provides a comprehensive guide to the design of sustainable and green computing systems (GSC). Coverage includes important breakthroughs in various aspects of GSC, including multi-core architectures, interconnection technology, data centers, high performance computing (HPC), and sensor networks. The authors address the challenges of power efficiency and sustainability in various contexts, including system design, computer architecture, programming languages, compilers and networking.
From the reviews:
"The state of the art in the field of green and sustainable computing systems is explored throughout the nine chapters of this well-written book. ... Practitioners dealing with large data centers and high-performing computing clusters will find this book especially useful, due to its substantial practical importance. Researchers and graduate students in the computer science field may also find this book useful." (Petrica Pop, Computing Reviews, May, 2014)
"The state of the art in the field of green and sustainable computing systems is explored throughout the nine chapters of this well-written book. ... Practitioners dealing with large data centers and high-performing computing clusters will find this book especially useful, due to its substantial practical importance. Researchers and graduate students in the computer science field may also find this book useful." (Petrica Pop, Computing Reviews, May, 2014)