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‹#› Het begint met een idee

SOFTWARE AND SUSTAINABILITY

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ILLUSTRATION: VU STRATEGIC PLAN, VISION 2015-2020

by Prof. Dr. Patricia Lago in the occasion of her Inaugural Speech15 January 2016

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Technical Economic

SocialEnvironmental

Source: P. Lago et al. “Framing Sustainability as a Software Quality Property”, ACM Communications, 2015.

‹#› Het begint met een idee Source: Philips SimplicitySustainable City Light Concept “Light Blossom”

Solar energy

Wind energy

Low power mode

Full intensity mode

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Lighting up the ParkUppsala , Sweden (2015)

Source: YouTubeLight up the dark: CityTouchPATRICIA LAGO ©2016

Lighting up the ParkUppsala , Sweden (2015)

57% improvement

in children’s mood

43% also better

sleeping pattern

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Authorities can manage and control LED streetlights remotely with this connected system [Photos courtesy of Philips] Philips CityTouch System

Smart lighting-control-

software

& LED technologyProportional

cost reductions

80% reduction

energy

consumption

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Smart and Sustainable

Source: 盧柏宇, Wikimedia CommonsAn artist's illustration of a smart city

9.7 billion connected things being used by 2020

Software as glue, and transformational power

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Source: Clicking Clean, Greenpeace, 2014

A collective global electricity consumption of 12% by

2017. (2015)

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The software industry and unsustainability

ENIAC Programmers Project (1946)Photo: Corbis

Steve Jobs unveils the iPhone (2007)Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Hardware

Energy-

unaware

software

Hardware optimizations are negated by

software inefficiencies [cf. Wirth’ Law]

Potential 87% energy savings with cloud

migration of legacy software [Berkeley Labs]

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Software technical challenges

User-centricQuality of Service

Elastic

Source: Nanda Piersma et al., 2015

LastingPATRICIA LAGO ©2016

“Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.” Melvin

Kranzberg, 1986

Photo: Adapted from Rural Southern Story County by cwwycoff1

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SYSTEMIC IMPACT

ENABLING IMPACT

TECHNICAL

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IMMEDIATE IMPACT

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Software architecture provides a bird’s eye view to address the

effects on the four dimensions of sustainability.

Photo: adapted from AnonymousPATRICIA LAGO ©2016

TECHNICALE

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IMMEDIATE

IMPACT

ENABLING

IMPACT

SYSTEMIC

IMPACT

ENERGY

SAVINGS

SCALABILITYCONFIGURABILITY

SOFTWARE SYSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT METHOD © PATRICIA LAGO

WELL BEING

HEATHCARE

SAVINGS

ENERGY

COSTS

Smart

Lighting

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TECHNICALE

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SOCIALE

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IMMEDIATE

IMPACT

ENABLING

IMPACT

SYSTEMIC

IMPACT

SOFTWARE SYSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT METHOD © PATRICIA LAGO

ELASTICITY

ENERGY

SAVINGS

CARBON

FOOTPRINT

SCALABILITY

PROVISIONING

COSTS

Video

streamin

g

software

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Energy consumption is software defined.

The cloud is there because software needs it, and if software is

bloat and data management inefficient, any optimization will be

just wasted.

Photo: Act Two-Um

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“Cost reduction is a given, but (software) transformation is critical”.

Rick Wright, KMPG Global Cloud Enablement Leader

GREEN LAB © S2GROUP

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Software engineering knowledge

IMAGE: ANONYMOUS

Energy efficient software

SOURCES: S2GROUP (2014) & ADS project BIG DATA 4 GREEN SOFTWARE (2015)

-25%

Software architecture design decisionsSOURCES: LAGO, LEWIS, PROCACCIANTI (WICSA 2014. ECSA 2015)

80B€How much?

-63.5%-1.9M€

Smart cloud governancePATRICIA LAGO ©2016

‹#› Het begint met een idee

“Software is eating the world”. Marc Andreessen, 2011

PHOTO: NIGEL PARRY

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ILLUSTRATION: THE GRIFFIN GOES GREEN, adapted from Massimiliano Nibid Graphics

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Ik heb gezegd.

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