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 […]