This tool calculates the coefficients used in Cloud Carbon Footprint, an application that estimates the energy (kilowatt-hours) and carbon emissions (metric tons CO2e) from public cloud provider utilization. We use the SPECpower_ssj2008 results to perform these calculations.
The original work was done by David Mytton, and it is archived here.
There are two outputs of this tool used in Cloud Carbon Footprint:
-
Usage coefficients: Values calculated within for Azure (min watts, max watts, GB/chip), AWS (min watts, max watts, GB/chip) and GCP (min watts, max watts). Results will be in a CSV file in the
output/
with the values for each CPU architecture for each cloud platform. -
Embodied emissions coefficients: Values are calculated and output to CSV in
output/
for each instance type for each cloud platform inkgCO2e
.
This command line is written in Python and manages its dependencies through poetry. Steps:
- Ensure you have or install Python 3.10 with
python3 --version
- If you don't have it, install poetry:
curl -sSL https://install.python-poetry.org | python3 -
- Run
poetry install
to install dependencies - Run
poetry run ccfcoef --help
to see the available commands orpoetry shell
to enter a virtualenv and thenccfcoef --help
Looking at the help output, you can see the available commands:
$ poetry run ccfcoef --help
Usage: ccfcoef [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...
Options:
--spec-version TEXT The SPECpower version to use, use "ccfcoef list-specs"
to see available versions.
--help Show this message and exit.
Commands:
cpu-averages Display the calculated power usage averages for...
embodied-coefficients Calculate the embodied coefficients for each...
filter-spec Filter SPECpower file by CPU family.
list-specs Display all available SPECpower results files.
show-constants Display all constants available to ccfcoef.
show-families Display all CPU families available to ccfcoef.
tag-spec Tag SPECpower results with CPU family.
update-specpower Will fetch a new version of the SPECpower...
usage-coefficients Calculate the usage coefficients for each cloud...
usage-coefficients
: This command will calculate the usage coefficients for each cloud provider and output them to CSV inoutput/
.
$ poetry run ccfcoef usage-coefficients -w
Calculating usage coefficients...
Using SPECpower results file: SPECpower-2023-05-01.csv
Azure
Missing: Unknown
Writing to output/coefficients-azure-use.csv, 8 entries.
GCP
Writing to output/coefficients-gcp-use.csv, 8 entries.
AWS
Missing: 8375C
Writing to output/coefficients-aws-use.csv, 11 entries.
embodied-coefficients
: This command will calculate the embodied coefficients for each cloud provider and output them to CSV inoutput/
.
$ poetry run ccfcoef embodied-coefficients -w
Calculating embodied coefficients...
Azure
Writing to output/coefficients-azure-embodied.csv, 595 entries.
GCP
Writing to output/coefficients-gcp-embodied.csv, 277 entries.
GCP (mean)
Writing to output/coefficients-gcp-embodied-mean.csv, 126 entries.
AWS
Writing to output/coefficients-aws-embodied.csv, 621 entries.
update-specpower
: This command will fetch a new version of the SPECpower results file from the SPEC website and save it todata/
.
$ poetry run ccfcoef update-specpower
Updating SPECpower data...
Found 830 results
Writing SPECpower-2023-05-01.csv
Other commands are available to help investigate the data and the coefficients. Use
poetry run ccfcoef COMMAND --help
for more information.
ccfcoef
uses the last available SPECpower results file by default. You can
specify a different version with the --spec-version
option. This is a global
option and will set the SPECpower version for all commands.
list-specs
: This command will display all available SPECpower results files indata/
. See example below.
$ poetry run ccfcoef list-specs
Available SPECpower results files:
file: SPECpower-2023-05-01.csv version:2023-05-01
file: SPECpower-2023-04-28.csv version:2023-04-28
file: SPECpower-2023-04-27.csv version:2023-04-27
file: SPECpower-2023-04-06.csv version:2023-04-06
file: SPECpower-2022-03-01.csv version:2022-03-01
$ poetry run ccfcoef --spec-version 2022-03-01 cpu-averages --family intel-coffeelake
Using SPECpower results file: SPECpower-2022-03-01.csv
Averages for: Coffee Lake
Average: Min Watts = 1.14
Average: Max Watts = 5.42
Average: Max Watts (GCP) = 5.41
Average: GB/chip = 19.56