Green Mining: Keeping Software Sustainable by Engineering for Power Consumption

当代的计算主要是电力消耗问题。例如，电池寿命是移动设备的关键，而电源使用和资源节约在服务器群中非常重要。电力消耗的任何节省都会直接节省电力成本。电力消耗曾经是计算机和电气工程师的领域，但移动和云计算将部分电力消耗的责任推给了软件工程师。由于应用程序可以通过许多不同的方式(磁盘、网络、无线电、视频等)消耗电力，因此从业者寻求工程软件的方法来降低电力消耗。

Contemporary computation is dominated by power consumption issues. For example, battery life is key to mobile devices and power usage and resource conservation is important within server farms. Any savings in power consumption provide direct savings in power costs. Power consumption was once the domain of computer and electrical engineers, but mobile and cloud computing shifted some of the responsibility for power consumption to software engineers. Since applications can consume power in many different ways (disk, network, radio, video, etc.), practitioners seek methods of engineering software to reduce power consumption.