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Reducing carbon emissions in a core system

Reducing carbon emissions in a core system

UBM and Microsoft shift computational tasks in CO2-reduced times

This whitepaper discusses the first enterprise-scale implementation of carbon-aware computing, a collaboration between UBS and Microsoft under the Green Software Foundation (GSF) umbrella. Using the GSF Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) specification and carbon-aware-sdk tooling, the partners implemented a time-shifting strategy for UBS's risk platform, running workloads during periods of lower carbon intensity in the grid. This approach is projected to prevent multiple metric tons of CO2eq from entering the atmosphere annually.

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Foundational basic Patterns

Establish a case-based mindset

Remove batch-processing and periodic activities from your business process

Reduce touchpoints

Reduce the number of contacts with customers and third parties

Isolate exceptions

Design business processes for typical cases and isolate exceptional cases from the normal flow

Deploy extra resources

If capacity is insufficient, consider increasing the available number of resources

Shift Workload

Execute tasks when the grid is powered by renewable energy

Offer temporal flexibility

Let customers interact with your organization whenever they want to.

Tailored privacy settings

Offer customers the possibility to choose among privacy settings

Generalize your process

Explore whether a process can easily be used for additional products or services

Constraint-based task assignment

Allocate tasks considering business process execution constraints

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Shift Workload

Execute tasks when the grid is powered by renewable energy

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