ASCETiC - Adapting Service lifeCycle towards EfficienT Clouds

The ASCETiC project focuses on issues of energy efficient computing, specifically on design, construction, deployment and operation of Cloud services.
For software developers, it proposes novel methods and development tools to support them in monitoring and optimizing (minimizing) the energy consumption resulting from developing and deploying software in Cloud environments.
For Cloud providers, ASCETiC can be a complement to their offering in order to attract users while improving their corporate image as a means of offering differentiation and adhering to green legislations. At the same time it provides internal benefits decreasing energy consumption and as a result associated costs. As the green-aware market segment grows, this reduction in energy consumption can also help generate sales from niche market segments making it stand out from other competitors .
For end users, ASCETiC helps to improve their Corporate Social Responsibility, as well as guaranteeing the adhesion to green legislations regarding the optimization of energy consumptions and greenhouse gas emissions.
Open Source developers, Technology providers.
ASCETiC’s primary goal is to characterize the factors which affect energy efficiency in software development, deployment and operation. The approach focuses firstly on the identification of the missing functionalities to support energy efficiency across all Cloud layers, and secondly on the definition and integration of explicit measurements of energy requirements into the design and development process for software to be executed on a Cloud platform.
For this reason, ASCETiC is providing the ASCETiC Toolbox, an Open Source Cloud stack that takes energy awareness into account, aiming to reduce carbon footprint and minimize energy consumption.
The ASCETiC Toolbox brings an innovative solution to the market, as it is focuses on the whole lifecycle of a service operation, not only on parts of it. It offers pricing models based on energy consumption, self-adaptation capabilities and the possibility to reuse its functionality on a single installation.
Most of the work performed for reducing energy consumption is nowadays concentrated at data centre (building) or infrastructure level. ASCETiC is going one step further on this offering, as it is focused at the software level, and it is a complementary solution for those organizations that have already implemented improvements on the above mentioned levels.
Engineering & manufacturing, Media, Other.