Spring'24 Seminar Course on Green Computing and Sustainability

This semester, I'm offering the second instantiation of my seminar course on Green Computing and Sustainability. The papers we plan to discuss this semester are listed below. This time, our focus will be Sustainable AI and Sustainable Data Centers. If you have recommendations on relevant papers to add to the list for our future seminars, please let me know. 

Green and Sustainable Computing: Challenges and Opportunities 

  1. Assessing ICT Global Emissions Footprint: Trends to 2040 & Recommendations
  2. The Sky is Not the Limit: Untapped Opportunities for Green Computing
  3. Sustainable Computing – Without the Hot Air
  4. The Odd One Out: Energy is not like Other Metrics 

Sustainable AI

  1. Green AI
  2. Towards a Methodology and Framework for AI Sustainability Metrics
  3. Do Deep Learning Frameworks Have Different Costs?
  4. Adaptive and Energy-Efficient Architectures for Machine Learning: Challenges and Opportunities
  5. Energy-Efficient Deep Learning Inference on Edge Devices
  6. Towards Energy Efficient non-von Neumann Architectures for Deep Learning 
  7. Carbon-Efficient Neural Architecture Search
  8. Energy and Policy Considerations for Deep Learning in NLP
  9. Reducing the Carbon Impact of Generative AI Inference (today and in 2035)
  10. Great Power, Great Responsibility: Recommendations for Reducing Energy for Training Language Models
  11. Learning to Grow Pretrained Models for Efficient Transformer Training

Sustainable Data Centers

  1. Treehouse: A Case For Carbon-Aware Datacenter Software
  2. Green Algorithms: Quantifying the Carbon Footprint of Computation
  3. Carbon Containers: A System-level Facility for Managing Application-level Carbon Emissions
  4. CarbonScaler: Leveraging Cloud Workload Elasticity for Optimizing Carbon-Efficiency
  5. WattScope: Non-intrusive Application-level Power Disaggregation in Datacenters
  6. Real-time Carbon Footprint Minimization in Sustainable Data Centers with Reinforcement Learning
You can access the reading list for the previous offering of my seminar course on "Green Computing and Sustainability" at this link. 



Comments

  1. John FreyFebruary 26, 2024 at 3:16 PM

    Uptime Institute has many papers to recommend here, including "Beyond PUE: Tackling IT’s
    wasted terawatts" and their annual data center surveys. In addition, for software efficiency: There’s plenty of room at the Top: What will drive computer performance after Moore’s law? (https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aam9744). We publish our sustainable IT whitepapers in the Tools and Resources section at the bottom of this page (https://www.hpe.com/us/en/living-progress/sustainable-it.html) and welcome comments and updates as we refresh them every two years.

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  2. John FreyFebruary 26, 2024 at 3:19 PM

    Also, starting Feb 27th, a new documentary on the environmental cost of cloud computing will be live here: https://clouded.tv (Clouded II). There are many sustainable IT voices included in this work.

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  3. Tevfik KosarFebruary 26, 2024 at 3:22 PM

    Thank you, John. I will definitely check them out.

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