TDDD50 · 4 credits · Basic level (G2F) · Informationsteknologi, Datateknik, Datavetenskap, Programmering
Green Computing
Active · next start VT 2027
71%
passed the latest regular sitting
UPG2 · 1 Apr 2026 · 55 students
79%
passed the regular sittings, all sittings over the last 5 years
UPG2 · 270 students
35%
Harder than 35% of courses at basic level
Compared with 874 courses at the same level, ordinary exams over the last three academic years. 106 students.
Part of 5 programmes
Hand-in or lab
UPG2 Oral Presentation and Seminar Leadership
- G
- U
Main rounds
79% passed · 270 students
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- 100%51
- 76%55
- 79%57
- 71%52
Later rounds
96% passed · 47 students
- 100%5
- 100%8
- 100%7
- 100%6
- 86%14
- 100%7
- Pass a later round: 96% (47 students), compared with 79% (270 students) on the ordinary exam
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Other modules
Partial exams, hand-ins and labs. They are not part of the figures at the top.
Hand-in or lab
UPG3 Active participation in seminars, and written report
- 5
- 4
- 3
- U
Main rounds
81% passed · 235 students
- 92%37
- 91%58
- 68%37
- 83%54
- 69%49
Later rounds
80% passed · 35 students
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- Pass a later round: 80% (35 students), compared with 81% (235 students) on the ordinary exam
- Get 4 or 5: 43% (270 students)
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About the course
Aim
- Identifying and analyzing the environmental impact of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT), leading to its CO2 footprint.
- Seeking information about the life cycle of ICT products and their energy impacts.
- Describing the standards and programs related to the sustainability of ICT products.
- Describing and analyzing current mechanisms to reduce the energy consumption of ICT products, in particular in data centres.
- Summarizing a research paper in the area of green computing and discussing it in a report written in English with scientific style, seeking information about related topics and writing about them.
Content
- Global perspective on ICT footprint.
- The life cycle of ICT products: product design, use, end of life cycle, including management of electronic waste.
- Green ICT related standards and certification approaches.
- Power-aware computing and power management.
- Data center sustainability.
- Tools and metrics to evaluate the energy consumption of products and approaches to improve energy efficiency.
- Examiner
- Buse Atli
- Scheduled hours
- 24 h
- Main field of study
- Informationsteknologi, Datateknik, Datavetenskap, Programmering