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A specification that describes how to calculate a carbon intensity for software applications.
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Rephrase SCI formula for better clarity and understanding #278

Closed varnepalli1 closed 1 year ago

varnepalli1 commented 1 year ago

Current snippet: Please see my comments inline

SCI = ((E * I) + M) per R. [Vasu]: SCI is an abbreviation in our doc context. So, we are referring it as an attribute (LHS) here. I would say, it we could use 'C' directly here instead of SCI. If we keep both SCI and C, C looks like an alias to SCI and SCI we are using in two contexts, which is confusing

[Vasu]: It would be more clear if we mention the formula and attributes expansion from higher to low level expansion. for example, if we say something like C = O +M Then explain and expand O and M and their respective low-level formulae down.

Where:

E = Energy consumed by a software system

I= Location-based marginal carbon emissions

M = Embodied emissions of a software system

R = Functional unit (e.g. carbon per additional user, API-call, ML job, etc)

The equation can be further refined to

SCI = (O + M) per R

Where:

O = E * I = Operational emissions based on energy consumption (E) and location-based carbon intensity measurement (I)

And once more this can be further refined into:

SCI = C per R

Where:

C = O + M = Amount of carbon the software is emitting.
atg-abhishek commented 1 year ago

@varnepalli1 just as a note since you've raised a few issues on our repo, please use the correct labelling. The case-study-submission tag is only meant to be used when you're creating a case study submission.

As for your in-line comments here, we appreciate it and will consider if this is something that WG feels needs to be changed. Thanks!