[KDE Eco discuss] online meetup Wed. 20 Nov. 18h UTC | Green Coding Solutions: "Eco-CI" and "Powerletrics"

[Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss]

Reminder of tonight's Eco meetup at 18 UTC!

On 05.11.24 12:40 PM, Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss wrote:
> After a short three-month hiatus, the next KDE Eco online meetup will be 
> Wednesday *20 November* 18-19h UTC! I am excited to announce that Green 
> Coding Solutions will present two of their new measurement tools:
> 
>   - "Eco-CI" to measure energy consumption of CI/CD pipeline
>   - "Powerletrics" Linux kernel extension for power usage estimations
> 
> Eco-CI has been suggested for integration into the Okular's CI/CD 
> pipeline. For discussion, see: https://invent.kde.org/graphics/okular/-/ 
> merge_requests/1030
> 
> See below for more details.
> 
> Minutes from past meetups can be found here: https://invent.kde.org/ 
> teams/eco/opt-green/-/tree/master/community-meetups
> 
> _Overview_
> 
> *When*: Wed. 20 November 18-19h UTC
> 
> *Where*: https://meet.kde.org/b/jos-l59-2i1-9yt
> 
> *Topic*: Green Coding Solutions tools "Eco-CI" (CI/CD pipeline) and 
> "Powerletrics" (Linux kernel extension)
> 
> *Pad*: Further ideas are collected at this pad, please add ideas of your 
> own:
> 
>         https://collaborate.kde.org/s/cactBt4frrfTjbW
> 
> *Details*:
> 
> Eco-CI [0] is an open source GitHub / GitLab Plugin that estimates the 
> energy and carbon emissions of a CI/CD workload. It hooks into the 
> pipeline and will print a summary directly in the logs or as a 
> downloadable artifact. Arne, one of the core developers, will present 
> the tool and show some numbers from repos, including their average 
> emissions, to get a feel for the importance of the topic. A discussion 
> of integrating Eco-CI into Okular's GitLab repository will follow the 
> presentation.
> 
> Powerletrics [1] is a kernel extension that brings per process power 
> usage estimations to Linux. It is modelled after the MacOS tool 
> powermetrics which developers can use to gain insights into their 
> environmental impact of their code. With modern ICT infrastructure using 
> more and more resources, it is important that there are easy tools for 
> monitoring and optimisation available so that we don’t waste precious 
> resources.
> 
> [0] https://github.com/green-coding-solutions/eco-ci-energy-estimation
> [1] https://github.com/green-kernel/powerletrics
> 

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Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss (he/him)
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