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Datacenter power demand has been continuously growing and is the key driver of its cost. An accurate mapping of compute resources (CPU, RAM, etc.) and hardware types (servers, accelerators, etc.) to power consumption has emerged as a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Ana Radovanovic , Bokan Chen , Saurav Talukdar , Binz Roy , Alexandre Duarte , Mahya Shahbazi

We discuss a Quantum-Enhanced Computing Continuum, a heterogeneous, hybrid architecture that integrates quantum processing units (QPUs) within an Edge-Cloud-HPC fabric. Promote sustainability by shifting from performance to "energy-aware…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Carlos J. Barrios H. , Frédéric Le Mouël , Oscar Carrillo

Power consumption (supply, heat, cost) and associated carbon emissions (environmental impact) are increasingly critical challenges in scaling supercomputing to Exascale and beyond. We proposes to exploit stranded power, renewable energy…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-07-08 Fan Yang , Andrew A. Chien

The environmental sustainability of Information Technology (IT) has emerged as a critical concern, driven by the need to reduce both energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In the context of cloud-native applications deployed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Andrea D'Iapico , Monica Vitali

The planning and operation of renewable energy, especially wind power, depend crucially on accurate, timely, and high-resolution weather information. Coarse-grid global numerical weather forecasts are typically downscaled to meet these…

The rapid proliferation of data centers in the US - driven partly by the adoption of artificial intelligence - has set off alarm bells about the industry's environmental impact. We compiled detailed information on 2,132 US data centers…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Gianluca Guidi , Francesca Dominici , Jonathan Gilmour , Kevin Butler , Eric Bell , Scott Delaney , Falco J. Bargagli-Stoffi

Technology use has grown rapidly in recent years. It is infused in virtually every aspect of organizational and individual life. This technology runs on servers, typically in data centers. As workloads grow, more serves are required. Each…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Kaushik Dutta , Debra Vandermeer

The rapid adoption of Generative AI (GenAI) in the software development life cycle (SDLC) increases computational demand, which can raise the carbon footprint of development activities. At the same time, organizations are increasingly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Mateen A. Abbasi , Tommi J. Mikkonen , Petri J. Ihantola , Muhammad Waseem , Pekka Abrahamsson , Niko K. Mäkitalo

The ICT industry today is placed as one of the major consumers of energy, where recent reports have also shown that the industry is a major contributor to global carbon emissions. While renewable energy-aware data centers have been…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-12-22 Julien Mineraud , Liang Wang , Sasitharan Balasubramaniam , Jussi Kangasharju

The rapid growth in demand for HPC systems has led to a rise in carbon footprint, which requires urgent intervention. In this work, we present a comprehensive analysis of the carbon footprint of high-performance computing (HPC) systems,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Baolin Li , Rohan Basu Roy , Daniel Wang , Siddharth Samsi , Vijay Gadepally , Devesh Tiwari

Power systems decarbonization are at the focal point of the clean energy transition. While system operators and utility companies increasingly publicize system-level carbon emission information, it remains unclear how emissions from…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Yuqing Shen , Yuanyuan Shi , Daniel Kirschen , Yize Chen

The energy sustainability of multi-access edge computing (MEC) platforms is here addressed by developing Energy-Aware job Scheduling at the Edge (EASE), a computing resource scheduler for edge servers co-powered by renewable energy…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Giovanni Perin , Francesca Meneghello , Ruggero Carli , Luca Schenato , Michele Rossi

Cloud data centers face increasing pressure to reduce operational energy consumption as big data workloads continue to grow in scale and complexity. This paper presents a workload aware and energy efficient scheduling framework that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Milan Parikh , Aniket Abhishek Soni , Sneja Mitinbhai Shah , Ayush Raj Jha

Recent improvements in energy efficiency and renewable energy integration have increased the relative importance of embodied carbon in data centers, motivating improved provisioning strategies. Conventional approaches primarily minimize…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Shixin Ji , Zhuoping Yang , Xingzhen Chen , Alex K. Jones , Peipei Zhou

The AI datacenters are currently being deployed on a large scale to support the training and deployment of power-intensive large-language models (LLMs). Extensive amount of computation and cooling required in datacenters increase concerns…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-14 Nardos Belay Abera , Yize Chen

The transformation of smart mobility is unprecedented--Autonomous, shared and electric connected vehicles, along with the urgent need to meet ambitious net-zero targets by shifting to low-carbon transport modalities result in new traffic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Zeinab Nezami , Emmanouil Chaniotakis , Evangelos Pournaras

As computing energy demand continues to grow and electrical grid infrastructure struggles to keep pace, an increasing number of data centers are being planned with colocated microgrids that integrate on-site renewable generation and energy…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Julius Irion , Philipp Wiesner , Jonathan Bader , Odej Kao

The growing deployment of large language models (LLMs) makes per-request routing essential for balancing response quality and computational cost across heterogeneous model pools. Current routing methods rarely consider sustainable energy…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Disha Sheshanarayana , Rajat Subhra Pal , Manjira Sinha , Tirthankar Dasgupta

Scientific workflows facilitate the automation of data analysis, and are used to process increasing amounts of data. Therefore, they tend to be resource-intensive and long-running, leading to significant energy consumption and carbon…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Kathleen West , Magnus Reid , Yehia Elkhatib , Lauritz Thamsen

Achieving a sustainable electricity infrastructure requires the explicit integration of carbon emissions into power system modeling and optimization. However, existing open-source test cases for power system research lack generator-level…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-20 Young-ho Cho , Min-Seung Ko , Hao Zhu