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The race for artificial intelligence (AI) dominance often prioritizes scale over efficiency. Hyper-scaling is the common industry approach: larger models, more data, and as many computational resources as possible. Using more resources is a…

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We examine the computational energy requirements of different systems driven by the geometrical scaling law, and increasing use of Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning (AI-ML) over the last decade. With more scientific and technology…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Sadasivan Shankar , Albert Reuther

Recent years have witnessed a phenomenal growth in the computational capabilities and applications of GPUs. However, this trend has also led to dramatic increase in their power consumption. This paper surveys research works on analyzing and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2014-04-21 Sparsh Mittal , Jeffrey S. Vetter

The increasing demand for computational resources of training neural networks leads to a concerning growth in energy consumption. While parallelization has enabled upscaling model and dataset sizes and accelerated training, its impact on…

CPU-GPU heterogeneous systems are now commonly used in HPC (High-Performance Computing). However, improving the utilization and energy-efficiency of such systems is still one of the most critical issues. As one single program typically…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Eishi Arima , Minjoon Kang , Issa Saba , Josef Weidendorfer , Carsten Trinitis , Martin Schulz

Deep learning has become widely used in complex AI applications. Yet, training a deep neural network (DNNs) model requires a considerable amount of calculations, long running time, and much energy. Nowadays, many-core AI accelerators (e.g.,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Yuxin Wang , Qiang Wang , Shaohuai Shi , Xin He , Zhenheng Tang , Kaiyong Zhao , Xiaowen Chu

The steady growth of artificial intelligence (AI) has accelerated in the recent years, facilitated by the development of sophisticated models such as large language models and foundation models. Ensuring robust and reliable power…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Andrea Marinoni , Sai Shivareddy , Pietro Lio' , Weisi Lin , Erik Cambria , Clare Grey

The rapid expansion of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has intensified concerns about its environmental sustainability. Current assessments focus on operational carbon emissions using secondary data, overlooking impacts in other life cycle…

Power is becoming an increasingly important concern for large supercomputing centers. Due to cost concerns, data centers are becoming increasingly limited in their ability to enhance their power infrastructure to support increased compute…

Applications · Statistics 2015-05-13 Curtis Storlie , Joe Sexton , Scott Pakin , Michael Lang , Brian Reich , William Rust

The electric power supply for AI data centers is now the most significant bottleneck in the race toward Artificial General Intelligence, surpassing even the constraint of AI accelerator availability. To our knowledge, this paper is the…

Currently, data-intensive scientific applications require vast amounts of compute resources to deliver world-leading science. The climate emergency has made it clear that unlimited use of resources (e.g., energy) for scientific discovery is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-12 P. Chris Broekema , Rob V. van Nieuwpoort

The increasing complexity and scale of cosmological N-body simulations, driven by astronomical surveys like Euclid, call for a paradigm shift towards more sustainable and energy-efficient high-performance computing (HPC). The rising energy…

The rapid growth of AI, data-intensive science, and digital twin technologies has driven an unprecedented demand for high-performance computing (HPC) across the research ecosystem. While national laboratories and industrial hyperscalers…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Peng Shu , Junhao Chen , Zhengliang Liu , Huaqin Zhao , Xinliang Li , Tianming Liu

As AI capabilities and deployment accelerate toward a post-AGI era, concerns are growing about electricity demand and carbon emissions from AI computing, yet it is rarely represented explicitly in long term energy-economy-climate scenario…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Doyi Kim , Jiseok Ahn , Haewon McJeon , Changick Kim

As AI's energy demand continues to grow, it is critical to enhance the understanding of characteristics of this demand, to improve grid infrastructure planning and environmental assessment. By combining empirical measurements from…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Alex C. Newkirk , Jared Fernandez , Jonathan Koomey , Imran Latif , Emma Strubell , Arman Shehabi , Constantine Samaras

Significant investments to upgrade and construct large-scale scientific facilities demand commensurate investments in R&D to design algorithms and computing approaches to enable scientific and engineering breakthroughs in the big data era.…

Barroso's seminal contributions in energy-proportional warehouse-scale computing launched an era where modern datacenters have become more energy efficient and cost effective than ever before. At the same time, modern AI applications have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Carole-Jean Wu , Bilge Acun , Ramya Raghavendra , Kim Hazelwood

The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence has significantly increased the electricity, water, and carbon demands of modern data centers, raising sustainability concerns. This study evaluates the environmental footprint of AI server…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Aadi Patel , Nikhil Mahalingam , Rusheen Patel

This paper explores the environmental impact of the super-linear growth trends for AI from a holistic perspective, spanning Data, Algorithms, and System Hardware. We characterize the carbon footprint of AI computing by examining the model…

The GPU has emerged as the go-to accelerator for high throughput and parallel workloads, spanning scientific simulations to AI, thanks to its performance and power efficiency. Given that 6 out of the top 10 fastest supercomputers in the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Zeyu Yang , Karel Adamek , Wesley Armour