Project to develop green ICT
A new EU-funded project hopes to give citizens and businesses earlier and more accurate data regarding their impact on the environment.
The ENTRA (Whole-Systems ENergy TRAnsparency) project has received €2.1m from the European Commission. The project focuses on developing cleaner ICT systems by providing energy consumption usage data in early stages of computer design and in advance of manufacturing.
The project will use energy modelling and program analysis techniques to estimate future energy usage. The researchers expect that optimising the energy efficiency of a program both during code development and at run-time will lead to more energy efficient computer systems.
The project is led by Dr Kerstin Eder, reader in design automation and verification at the University of Bristol, who said: “Lack of energy transparency in today’s software development tools means that much of the potential energy saving available from power-efficient hardware is not utilised.”
The project will run for three years.
