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With the increasing adoption of private cloud infrastructures by providers and enterprises, the monitoring of these infrastructures is becoming crucial. The rationale behind monitoring is manifold: reasons include saving energy, lowering…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-01-28 Pavel Skvortsov , Dennis Hoppe , Axel Tenschert , Michael Gienger

Cloud computing drives innovation but also poses significant environmental challenges due to its high-energy consumption and carbon emissions. Data centers account for 2-4% of global energy usage, and the ICT sector's share of electricity…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Federico Ruilova , Ernst Gunnar Gran , Sven-Arne Reinemo

Federated Learning (FL) distributes machine learning (ML) training across edge devices to reduce data transfer overhead and protect data privacy. Since FL model training may span hundreds of devices and is thus resource- and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Talha Mehboob , Noman Bashir , Jesus Omana Iglesias , Michael Zink , David Irwin

The energy consumption of deep learning models is increasing at a breathtaking rate, which raises concerns due to potential negative effects on carbon neutrality in the context of global warming and climate change. With the progress of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Bo Li , Xinyang Jiang , Donglin Bai , Yuge Zhang , Ningxin Zheng , Xuanyi Dong , Lu Liu , Yuqing Yang , Dongsheng Li

Future networks must meet stringent requirements while operating within tight energy and carbon constraints. Current autoscaling mechanisms remain workload-centric and infrastructure-siloed, and are largely unaware of their environmental…

Major cloud providers such as Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Amazon rely heavily on datacenters to support the ever-increasing demand for their computational and application services. However, the financial and carbon footprint related…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Rajkumar Buyya , Sukhpal Singh Gill

Due to increased energy consumption and carbon emissions of the ICT industry, operators worldwide are focusing on reducing energy consumption of their networks from financial as well as corporate responsibility perspectives. The subject of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-07-28 Adnan Aijaz , A. Hamid Aghvami

Carbon emissions significantly contribute to climate change, and carbon credits have emerged as a key tool for mitigating environmental damage and helping organizations manage their carbon footprint. Despite their growing importance across…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Qingwen Zeng , Hanlin Xu , Nanjun Xu , Zhenghao Zhao , Joakim Westerholm , Flora Salim , Junbin Gao , Huaming Chen

Climate change, which is now considered one of the biggest threats to humanity, is also the reason behind various other environmental concerns. Continued negligence might lead us to an irreparably damaged environment. After the partial…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Karthik Ramakrishnan , Gokul P , Preet Batavia , Shreesh Tripathi

The rapid growth of AI/ML data centers has led to higher energy consumption and carbon emissions. The shift to renewable energy and growing data center energy demands can destabilize the power grid. Power grids rely on frequency regulation…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Ali Jahanshahi , Sara Rashidi Golrouye , Osten Anderson , Nanpeng Yu , Daniel Wong

This paper presents a solution to the challenge of mitigating carbon emissions from hosting large-scale machine learning (ML) inference services. ML inference is critical to modern technology products, but it is also a significant…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Baolin Li , Siddharth Samsi , Vijay Gadepally , Devesh Tiwari

The concept of energy-efficient computing is not new but recently the focus of the industries related to technology has been shifted towards energy utilization techniques with minimum energy loss. Computer Networks also needed to be energy…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Anum Masood

Cloud computing is offering utility-oriented IT services to users worldwide. Based on a pay-as-you-go model, it enables hosting of pervasive applications from consumer, scientific, and business domains. However, data centers hosting Cloud…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-06-03 Rajkumar Buyya , Anton Beloglazov , Jemal Abawajy

Mitigating climate change and its impacts is one of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) required by United Nations for an urgent action. Increasing carbon emissions due to human activities is the root cause to climate change.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Chien-Sheng Yang , Carlson Lin , I-Kang Fu

The rapid growth of IoT devices has led to an enormous amount of sensor data that requires transmission to cloud servers for processing, resulting in excessive network congestion, increased latency and high energy consumption. This is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Dora Krekovic , Mario Kusek , Ivana Podnar Zarko , Danh Le-Phuoc

Digitalization appears as a lever to enhance agriculture sustainability. However, existing works on digital agriculture's own sustainability remain scarce, disregarding the environmental effects of deploying digital devices on a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Pierre La Rocca , Gaël Guennebaud , Aurélie Bugeau , Anne-Laure Ligozat

The use of High Performance Computing (HPC) in commercial and consumer IT applications is becoming popular. They need the ability to gain rapid and scalable access to high-end computing capabilities. Cloud computing promises to deliver such…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2009-09-08 Saurabh Kumar Garg , Chee Shin Yeo , Arun Anandasivam , Rajkumar Buyya

Edge computing systems struggle to efficiently manage multiple concurrent deep neural network (DNN) workloads while meeting strict latency requirements, minimizing power consumption, and maintaining environmental sustainability. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Varatheepan Paramanayakam , Andreas Karatzas , Dimitrios Stamoulis , Iraklis Anagnostopoulos

To halt further climate change, computing, along with the rest of society, must reduce, and eventually eliminate, its carbon emissions. Recently, many researchers have focused on estimating and optimizing computing's \emph{embodied carbon},…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Noman Bashir , David Irwin , Prashant Shenoy

In carbon capture and sequestration, building an effective monitoring method is a crucial step to detect and respond to CO2 leakage. CO2 leakage detection methods rely on geophysical observations and monitoring sensor network. However,…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-01-29 Zheng Zhou , Youzuo Lin , Yue Wu , Zan Wang , Robert Dilmore , George Guthrie