003 : Algorithms & Energy
Programmers and scientists have invented many different algorithms for achieving the same goal. Sorting algorithms do all exactly the same thing: they sort. But they do it in a different way.
"Accounting for about two percent of total greenhouse gas emissions, data centres have the same carbon footprint as the aviation industry. By 2040, storing digital data is set to create 14 percent of the world's emissions"
Charlotte Trueman
Many of the sustainability initiatives of data centers are based on using renewable energy for cooling systems to reduce power consumption. However, besides the energy required to maintain environmental controls for data analytics, the software itself also has a significant effect on the amount of electricity being consumed. Experiments show that standard sorting algorithms, which are not only used in various devices directly, but als very often implicitly by other algorithms, have different energy consumptions. The use of energy efficient sorting algorithms will contribute to green computing. Try the different algorithms on this site, compare their time efficiency and learn more about their energy efficiency.
This site is a dockerized node.js application running in a virtual computing environment (Render).
