Space platform anchors for sustainable computing systems

A. A. Periola, A. A. Alonge, K. A. Ogudo

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Abstract

The need to improve the operational efficiency of terrestrial computing platforms by lowering the power usage effectiveness (PUE) figure is an important research concern. In addition, it is also important to reduce the water footprint of terrestrial computing platforms that use water for cooling and have a high water footprint. This paper proposes a network architecture that achieves the goal of reducing the PUE figure and data centre water footprint. The proposed network architecture identifies terrestrial data centres with high PUE values and replaces them with low PUE value space based data centres. This considers the case where realizing data processing via terrestrial data centres with low PUE values are infeasible. The use of terrestrial and low PUE space data centres enables the reduction of PUE (improving efficiency) the water footprint. Analysis shows that the PUE is enhanced by 30.5% on average. The water footprint is reduced by 58.1%.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 2021 IEEE AFRICON, AFRICON 2021
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781665419840
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 13 Sept 2021
Event2021 IEEE AFRICON, AFRICON 2021 - Virtual, Arusha, Tanzania, United Republic of
Duration: 13 Sept 202115 Sept 2021

Publication series

NameIEEE AFRICON Conference
Volume2021-September
ISSN (Print)2153-0025
ISSN (Electronic)2153-0033

Conference

Conference2021 IEEE AFRICON, AFRICON 2021
Country/TerritoryTanzania, United Republic of
CityVirtual, Arusha
Period13/09/2115/09/21

Keywords

  • Computing Platforms
  • Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE)
  • Space - based data centres
  • Terrestrial data centres
  • Water footprint

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science Applications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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