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To improve the environmental implications of the growing demand of computing, future applications need to improve the carbon-efficiency of computing infrastructures. State-of-the-art approaches, however, do not consider the intermittent…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Young Geun Kim , Udit Gupta , Andrew McCrabb , Yonglak Son , Valeria Bertacco , David Brooks , Carole-Jean Wu

To meet the increasing demand for cloud computing services, the scale and number of data centers keeps increasing worldwide. This growth comes at the cost of increased electricity consumption, which directly correlates to CO2 emissions, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Matteo Zanotto , Leonardo Vicentini , Redi Vreto , Francesco Lumpp , Diego Braga , Sandro Fiore

Inter-datacenter communication is a significant part of cloud operations and produces a substantial amount of carbon emissions for cloud data centers, where the environmental impact has already been a pressing issue. In this paper, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Elvis Rodrigues , Jacob Goldverg , Tevfik Kosar

Depending on energy sources and demand, the carbon intensity of the public power grid fluctuates over time. Exploiting this variability is an important factor in reducing the emissions caused by data centers. However, regional differences…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Philipp Wiesner , Ilja Behnke , Dominik Scheinert , Kordian Gontarska , Lauritz Thamsen

The latest trends in the adoption of cloud, edge, and distributed computing, as well as a rise in applying AI/ML workloads, have created a need to measure, monitor, and reduce the carbon emissions of these compute-intensive workloads and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Jacob Goldverg , Hasibul Jamil , Elvis Rodriguez , Tevfik Kosar

Scientific research in many fields routinely requires the analysis of large datasets, and scientists often employ workflow systems to leverage clusters of computers for their data analysis. However, due to their size and scale, these…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Lauritz Thamsen , Yehia Elkhatib , Paul Harvey , Syed Waqar Nabi , Jeremy Singer , Wim Vanderbauwhede

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

Detailed scheduling has traditionally been optimized for the reduction of makespan and manufacturing costs. However, growing awareness of environmental concerns and increasingly stringent regulations are pushing manufacturing towards…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Andrea Mencaroni , Pieter Leyman , Birger Raa , Stijn De Vuyst , Dieter Claeys

Over the past decade, the continuous surge in cloud computing demand has intensified data center workloads, leading to significant carbon emissions and driving the need for improving their efficiency and sustainability. This paper focuses…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Enno Breukelman , Sophie Hall , Giuseppe Belgioioso , Florian Dörfler

In this work we study the problem of scheduling tasks with dependencies in multiprocessor architectures where processors have different speeds. We present the preemptive algorithm "Save-Energy" that given a schedule of tasks it post…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2008-06-09 Ioannis Chatzigiannakis , Georgios Giannoulis , Paul G. Spirakis

We consider the problem of scheduling a set of $n$ tasks on $m$ processors under precedence, communication, and global system energy constraints to minimize makespan. We extend existing scheduling models to account for energy usage and give…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-05-27 David Felber , Adam Meyerson

Climate change due to increasing carbon emissions by human activities has been identified as one of the most critical threat to Earth. Carbon neutralization, as a key approach to reverse climate change, has triggered the development of new…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Chien-Sheng Yang , Chien-Chun Huang-Fu , I-Kang Fu

In this paper, we introduce Context-Aware Priority Sampling (CAPS), a novel method designed to enhance data efficiency in learning-based autonomous driving systems. CAPS addresses the challenge of imbalanced datasets in imitation learning…

Advance reservation is important to guarantee the quality of services of jobs by allowing exclusive access to resources over a defined time interval on resources. It is a challenge for the scheduler to organize available resources…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-03-06 Bo Li , Yijian Pei , Bin Shen , Hao Wu , Min He , Jundong Yang

The growing reliance on large-scale data centers to run resource-intensive workloads has significantly increased the global carbon footprint, underscoring the need for sustainable computing solutions. While container orchestration platforms…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Zainab Saad , Jialin Yang , Henry Leung , Steve Drew

Containerization technology offers lightweight OS-level virtualization, and enables portability, reproducibility, and flexibility by packing applications with low performance overhead and low effort to maintain and scale them. Moreover,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Peini Liu , Jordi Guitart

The carbon footprint of data centers has recently become a critical concern. So far, most carbon-aware strategies have focused on leveraging the flexibility of scheduling decisions for batch processing by shifting the time and location of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Kevin Kreutz , Philipp Wiesner , Monica Vitali

Job schedulers are a key component of scalable computing infrastructures. They orchestrate all of the work executed on the computing infrastructure and directly impact the effectiveness of the system. Recently, job workloads have…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Albert Reuther , Chansup Byun , William Arcand , David Bestor , Bill Bergeron , Matthew Hubbell , Michael Jones , Peter Michaleas , Andrew Prout , Antonio Rosa , Jeremy Kepner

Energy consumption is one of the most critical concerns in designing computing devices, ranging from portable embedded systems to computer cluster systems. Furthermore, in the past decade, cluster systems have increasingly risen as popular…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Amirhossein Esmaili , Massoud Pedram

The growing electricity demand of cloud and edge computing increases operational costs and will soon have a considerable impact on the environment. A possible countermeasure is equipping IT infrastructure directly with on-site renewable…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Philipp Wiesner , Dominik Scheinert , Thorsten Wittkopp , Lauritz Thamsen , Odej Kao