SUSTAINABLE COMPUTER ARCHITECTURES: USE OF GRID, VIRTUALIZED, AND CLOUD COMPUTING IN ADDRESSING COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Abstract

"Combating electronic waste, energy consumption, as well as carbon emissions requires an enterprise to focus on creating sustainable computer architectures. A sustainable computer architecture identifies ways for an organization to stay competitive while becoming less dependent on computing resources and energy consumption. Sustainable computer architecture is a critical part of Corporate Social Responsibility. This paper highlights the components of a sustainable computer architecture: Grid, Cloud, and Virtualized Computing, and addresses their current applications in tackling COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic sent virtually all office employees as well as school and University students home worldwide. Working and studying from home has been the only option for them, with in person settings implemented during Fall 21 semester. Under these unprecedented circumstances, sustainable computer architecture providers have become the cornerstone of virtual collaboration and learning platforms on a scale never experienced before. While the Internet has been part of our lives for quite some time now, without scalable Grid, Cloud, and Virtualized Computing platforms addressing the COVID-19 pandemic would have been disastrous. Under the pandemic crisis, sustainable computer architectures have become indispensable for Universities, schools, enterprises, governments, and all virtual students and business professionals."