DIKU Bits: The Problem of Measuring Energy Usage in Software and IT Systems: How We Can Help Future Programmers?

Speaker

Michael Kirkedal Thomsen, Associate Professor in the PLTC (Programming Languages and Theory of Computing) section.

Title

The Problem of Measuring Energy Usage in Software and IT Systems: How We Can Help Future Programmers?

Abstract

The Information and Communications Technology sector is responsible for and increasing amount of the energy consumed today, and the current development with IoTs and AI this is only expected to accelerate in the coming years.
In this talk, I will explain how we, as computer scientists, can understand and try mitigate this problem. I will show the challenges of measuring and comparing the power consumption of both IT systems and individual programs, and show how this compares to our best results. This will show a first step to contributing to the development of more energy-efficient software by supporting future programmers with energy-aware programming languages, tools, and wider system models.