December Issue 2024
Preface Technical Papers
Preface
Astrid Nieße (University of Oldenburg, Germany)
BoaviztAPI: A Bottom-Up Model to Assess the Environmental Impacts of Cloud Services
Thibault Simon (Orange Labs, Univ. Lille, Inria, CNRS, UMR 9189 CRIStAL); David Ekchajzer (Hubblo, Université Paris-Saclay, Univ Evry, IMT-BS, LITEM,); Adrien Berthelot (ENS de Lyon, OCTO Technology, Inria); Eric Fourboul […]
Understanding and Mitigating Webpage Data Bloat: Causes and Preventive Measures
Aleksi Saarinen (Aalto University); Muhammad Zubair Farooqi (Aalto University); Matti Pärssinen (Aalto University); Jukka Manner (Aalto University) Abstract The World Wide Web and web pages play an integral role, serving […]
Towards Sustainable Large Language Model Serving
Sophia Nguyen (University of Waterloo); Beihao Zhou (University of Waterloo); Yi Ding (Purdue University); Sihang Liu (University of Waterloo) Abstract In this work, we study LLMs from a carbon emission […]
Proactive Energy Management in Database Systems
Yuto Hayamizu (The University of Tokyo); Masaru Kitsuregawa (The University of Tokyo); Kazuo Goda (The University of Tokyo) Abstract Reducing carbon footprint of datacenters is an unavoidable challenge for sustainable […]
Offline Energy-Optimal LLM Serving: Workload-Based Energy Models for LLM Inference on Heterogeneous Systems
Grant Wilkins (University of Cambridge); Srinivasan Keshav (University of Cambridge); Richard Mortier (University of Cambridge) Abstract The rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs) has led to significant advances in […]
Bridging the Sustainability Gap in Serverless through Observability and Carbon-Aware Pricing
Changyuan Lin (University of British Columbia); Mohammad Shahrad (University of British Columbia) Abstract Serverless computing has become a mainstream cloud computing paradigm due to its high scalability, ease of server […]
Energy-Aware Process Scheduling in Linux
Feitong Qiao (Columbia University); Yiming Fang (Columbia University); Asaf Cidon (Columbia University) Abstract Datacenters are becoming one of the most significant worldwide consumers of electricity and sources of carbon emissions. […]
Learning a Data Center Model for Efficient Demand Response
Quentin Clark (Boston University); Fatih Acun (Boston University); Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis (Boston University); Ayse K. Coskun (Boston University) Abstract Data center demand is projected to increase dramatically over the coming […]
Uncertainty-Aware Decarbonization for Datacenters
Amy Li (University of Waterloo); Sihang Liu (University of Waterloo); Yi Ding (Purdue University) Abstract This paper represents the first effort to quantify uncertainty in carbon intensity forecasting for datacenter […]
Data-driven Algorithm Selection for Carbon-Aware Scheduling
Roozbeh Bostandoost (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Walid A. Hanafy (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Adam Lechowicz (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Noman Bashir (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Prashant Shenoy (University of Massachusetts […]
A Sleep Study for ISP Networks: Evaluating Link Sleeping on Real World Data
Lukas Roellin (ETH Zürich); Romain Jacob (ETH Zürich); Laurent Vanbever (ETH Zürich) Abstract Turning off under-utilized network links is a promising energy-saving technique. In this paper, we present Hypnos, a […]
Vessim: A Testbed for Carbon-Aware Applications and Systems
Philipp Wiesner (Technische Universität Berlin); Ilja Behnke (Technische Universität Berlin); Paul Kilian (Technische Universität Berlin); Marvin Steinke (Technische Universität Berlin); Odej Kao (Technische Universität Berlin) Abstract To reduce the carbon […]
A Call for Research on Storage Emissions
Sara McAllister (CMU); Fiodar Kazhamiaka (Microsoft); Daniel S. Berger (Microsoft); Rodrigo Fonseca (Microsoft); Kali Frost (Microsoft); Aaron Ogus (Microsoft); Maneesh Sah (Microsoft); Ricardo Bianchini (Microsoft); George Amvrosiadis (Carnegie Mellon University); […]
EMPower: The Case for a Cloud Power Control Plane
Jonggyu Park (University of Washington); Theano Stavrinos (University of Washington); Simon Peter (University of Washington); Thomas Anderson (University of Washington) Abstract Escalating application demand and the end of Dennard scaling […]
Improving Carbon Emissions of Federated Large Language Model Inference through Classification of Task-Specificity
Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann (Employed by Green Coding Solutions); Verena Majuntke (HTW Berlin) Abstract The resource consumption of software and communication infrastructure is an increasing concern, particularly with the emergence of Large […]
Geographical Server Relocation: Opportunities and Challenges
Yejia Liu (UC Riverside); Pengfei Li (UC Riverside); Daniel Wong (UC Riverside); Shaolei Ren (UC Riverside) The enormous growth of AI computing has led to a surging demand for electricity. […]
Advanced Filtering of Unknown Devices in Event-Based NILM
Justus Breyer (RWTH Aachen University); Muhammad Hamad Alizai (LUMS); Sandeep Samant (RWTH Aachen University); Klaus Wehrle (RWTH Aachen University) Abstract Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM), an important application of machine learning, […]
Toward a Life Cycle Assessment for the Carbon Footprint of Data
Gabriel Mersy (University of Chicago); Sanjay Krishnan (University of Chicago) Abstract The growing data economy features a complex ecosystem of organizations, individuals, and devices. With digital data exchange between entities […]
Transient Internet of Things: Redesigning the Lifetime of Electronics for a More Sustainable Networked Environment
Tingyu Cheng (Georgia Institute of Technology); Gregory D. Abowd (Northeastern University); HyunJoo Oh (Georgia Institute of Technology); Josiah Hester (Georgia Institute of Technology) Abstract Mark Weiser predicted in 1991 that […]
CO2CoDe: Towards Carbon-Aware Hardware/Software Co-Design for Intermittently-Powered Embedded Systems
Phillip Raffeck (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)); Sven Posner (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)); Peter Wägemann (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)) Abstract The upcoming battery-free Internet of Things comes with a major benefit: These systems operate […]
Carbon in Motion: Characterizing Open-Sora on the Sustainability of Generative AI for Video Generation
Baolin Li (Northeastern University); Yankai Jiang (Northeastern University); Devesh Tiwari (Northeastern University) Abstract The rapid rise of generative AI (GenAI) technologies has brought innovative video generation models like OpenAI’s Sora […]
Streaming the future of sustainability
Ryan Hardesty Lewis (Cornell Tech); Alex Conway (Cornell Tech) Abstract The rapid growth of digital video traffic presents both challenges and opportunities for sustainable content delivery. We argue that the […]
Lovelock: Towards Smart NIC-hosted Clusters
Seo Jin Park (University of Southern California); Ramesh Govindan (University of Southern California); Kai Shen (Google); David Culler (Google); Fatma Ozcan (Google); Geon-Woo Kim (The University of Texas at Austin); […]
Understanding the Operational Carbon Footprint of Storage Reliability and Management
Varsha Rao (University of Chicago); Andrew A. Chien (University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory) Abstract With daily data generation of Zettabytes and exponential growth, our study finds that power […]