README.md

Emission track demo

A sample of code to demo software carbon emission measurement.

Create a virtual enviroment

You can create the development environment and use it by by running the following commands in the base directory of your cloned copy of the repo:

Create a virtual environment inside your working copy of the repo:

python -m venv .venv

Now activate this environment by running:

. .venv/bin/activate

Now install required packages:

pip install -r requirements.txt

To deactivate the environment just run:

deactivate

To re-activate the environment just run:

. .venv/bin/activate

See demo notebook demo.ipynb for running the example code with carbon emissions tracking.

Below are a couple of result plots. First for the demo code as is:

Second for the same demo code, but turning off output to stdout and compiling the C/C++ and Fortran code with compiler optimisation flags enabled.

The data for the above plots were generated on Apple M1 MacBook Pro with 8GB of RAM, using the Gfortran version 14.1.0 and Apple clang version 15.0.0.