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PowerAPI is a Python framework for building software-defined power meters.

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Powerapi

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PowerAPI is a middleware toolkit for building software-defined power meters. Software-defined power meters are configurable software libraries that can estimate the power consumption of software in real-time. PowerAPI supports the acquisition of raw metrics from a wide diversity of sensors (eg., physical meters, processor interfaces, hardware counters, OS counters) and the delivery of power consumptions via different channels (including file system, network, web, graphical). As a middleware toolkit, PowerAPI offers the capability of assembling power meters «à la carte» to accommodate user requirements.

About

PowerAPI is an open-source project developed by the Spirals research group (University of Lille 1 and Inria) and fully managed with setuptools.

The documentation is available here.

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Contributing

If you would like to contribute code you can do so through GitHub by forking the repository and sending a pull request.

When submitting code, please make every effort to follow existing conventions and style in order to keep the code as readable as possible.

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Use Cases

PowerAPI is used in a variety of projects to address key challenges of GreenIT:

  • GenPack provides a Docker Swarm strategy to minimize the energy footprint of Docker containers deployed in a cluster
  • BitWatts provides process-level power estimation of applications running in virtual machines
  • Web Energy Archive ranks popular websites based on the energy footpring they imposes to browsers
  • Greenspector optimises the power consumption of software by identifying potential energy leaks in the source code.

Acknowledgments

We all stand on the shoulders of giants and get by with a little help from our friends. PowerAPI is written in Python (under PSF license) and built on top of: