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Climate change is profoundly affecting nearly all aspects of life on earth, including human societies, economies and health. Various human activities are responsible for significant greenhouse gas emissions, including data centres and other…

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Large data and computing centers consume a significant share of the world's energy consumption. A prominent subset of the workloads in such centers are workflows with interdependent tasks, usually represented as directed acyclic graphs…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Dominik Schweisgut , Anne Benoit , Yves Robert , Henning Meyerhenke

In this paper, a solution for sustainable cloud system is proposed and then implemented on a real testbed. The solution composes of optimization of a profit model and introduction of virtual carbon tax to limit environmental footprint of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Fereydoun Farrahi Moghaddam , Mohamed Cheriet

The significant carbon footprint of the ICT sector calls for methodologies to contain carbon emissions of running software. This article proposes a novel framework for implementing, configuring and assessing carbon-aware interactive…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Stefano Forti , Jacopo Soldani , Antonio Brogi

The energy demand of modern cloud services, particularly those related to generative AI, is increasing at an unprecedented pace. To date, carbon-aware computing strategies have primarily focused on batch process scheduling or…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Philipp Wiesner , Dennis Grinwald , Philipp Weiß , Patrick Wilhelm , Ramin Khalili , Odej Kao

Recent trends of technology have explored a numerous applications of cloud services, which require a significant amount of energy. In the present scenario, most of the energy sources are limited and have a greenhouse effect on the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Sohan Kumar Pande , Sanjaya Kumar Panda , Preeti Ranjan Sahu

Cloud platforms have been focusing on reducing their carbon emissions by shifting workloads across time and locations to when and where low-carbon energy is available. Despite the prominence of this idea, prior work has only quantified the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Thanathorn Sukprasert , Abel Souza , Noman Bashir , David Irwin , Prashant Shenoy

Deep learning applications at the network edge lead to a significant growth in AI-related carbon emissions, presenting a critical sustainability challenge. The existing edge computing frameworks optimize for latency and throughput, but they…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Guilin Zhang , Wulan Guo , Ziqi Tan , Chuanyi Sun , Hailong Jiang

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

There has been a significant societal push towards sustainable practices, including in computing. Modern interactive workloads such as geo-distributed web-services exhibit various spatiotemporal and performance flexibility, enabling the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Abel Souza , Shruti Jasoria , Basundhara Chakrabarty , Alexander Bridgwater , Axel Lundberg , Filip Skogh , Ahmed Ali-Eldin , David Irwin , Prashant Shenoy

There is a growing interest in development of in-network dispersed computing paradigms that leverage the computing capabilities of heterogeneous resources dispersed across the network for processing massive amount of data is collected at…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Chien-Sheng Yang , Ramtin Pedarsani , A. Salman Avestimehr

Reducing our reliance on carbon-intensive energy sources is vital for reducing the carbon footprint of the electric grid. Although the grid is seeing increasing deployments of clean, renewable sources of energy, a significant portion of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-26 Rishikesh Jha , Stephen Lee , Srinivasan Iyengar , Mohammad H. Hajiesmaili , David Irwin , Prashant Shenoy

Training large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) models demands significant computational power and energy, leading to increased carbon footprint with potential environmental repercussions. This paper delves into the challenges of training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Jieming Bian , Lei Wang , Shaolei Ren , Jie Xu

This study investigates the efficient strategies for supply chain network optimization, specifically aimed at reducing industrial carbon emissions. Amidst escalating concerns about global climate change, industry sectors are motivated to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-04-29 Jihu Lei

Data centers are carbon-intensive enterprises due to their massive energy consumption, and it is estimated that data center industry will account for 8\% of global carbon emissions by 2030. However, both technological and policy instruments…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Zhiwei Cao , Xin Zhou , Han Hu , Zhi Wang , Yonggang Wen

The amount of CO$_2$ emitted per kilowatt-hour on an electricity grid varies by time of day and substantially varies by location due to the types of generation. Networked collections of warehouse scale computers, sometimes called Hyperscale…

The rapid expansion of data centers (DCs) has intensified energy and carbon footprint, incurring a massive environmental computing cost. While carbon-aware workload migration strategies have been examined, existing approaches often overlook…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-02 Yichao Zhang , Yubo Song , Subham Sahoo

Much debate nowadays is devoted to the impacts of modern information and communication technology on global carbon emissions. Green information and communication technology is a paradigm creating a sustainable and environmentally friendly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Iztok Fister , Dušan Fister , Vili Podgorelec , Iztok Fister

Rapid adoption of Cloud computing for hosting services and its success is primarily attributed to its attractive features such as elasticity, availability and pay-as-you-go pricing model. However, the huge amount of energy consumed by cloud…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Minxian Xu , Adel N. Toosi , Rajkumar Buyya

Organizations are increasingly offloading their workloads to cloud platforms. For workloads with relaxed deadlines, this presents an opportunity to reduce the total carbon footprint of these computations by moving workloads to datacenters…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Yibo Guo , Amanda Tomlinson , Runlong Su , George Porter