December Issue 2024

Preface

• Preface Astrid Nieße (University of Oldenburg, Germany)
• Declaration on an Academic Response to the Planetary Crisis
  

Technical Papers

• 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)
• 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)
• Toward a Life Cycle Assessment for the Carbon Footprint of Data
  Gabriel Mersy (University of Chicago); Sanjay Krishnan (University of Chicago)
• Geographical Server Relocation: Opportunities and Challenges
  Yejia Liu (UC Riverside); Pengfei Li (UC Riverside); Daniel Wong (UC Riverside); Shaolei Ren (UC Riverside)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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 (nan); Maneesh Sah (nan); Ricardo Bianchini (nan); George Amvrosiadis (Carnegie Mellon University); Nathan Beckmann (Carnegie Mellon University); Gregory R Ganger (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)
• 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 (Hubblo, Boavizta); Samuel Rince (Alygne, Boavizta); Romain Rouvoy (Univ. Lille, Inria, CNRS, UMR 9189 CRIStAL); Adrien Berthelot (University of Bristol)
• Energy-Aware Process Scheduling in Linux
  Feitong Qiao (Columbia University); Yiming Fang (Columbia University); Asaf Cidon (Columbia University)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Bridging the Sustainability Gap in Serverless through Observability and Carbon-Aware Pricing
  Changyuan Lin (University of British Columbia); Mohammad Shahrad (University of British Columbia)
• 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))
• 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)
• Uncertainty-Aware Decarbonization for Datacenters
  Amy Li (University of Waterloo); Sihang Liu (University of Waterloo); Yi Ding (Purdue University)
• 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 Amherst); Mohammad Hajiesmaili (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
• Proactive Energy Management in Database Systems
  Yuto Hayamizu (The University of Tokyo); Masaru Kitsuregawa (The University of Tokyo); Kazuo Goda (The University of Tokyo)
• 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)
• Streaming the future of sustainability
  Ryan Hardesty Lewis (Cornell Tech); Alex Conway (Cornell Tech)
• 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); Hank Levy (Google and University of Washington)
• 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)