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While researchers in both industry and academia are racing to build Quantum Computing (QC) platforms with viable performance and functionality, the environmental impacts of this endeavor, such as its carbon footprint, e-waste generation,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-14 Nivedita Arora , Prem Kumar

Given recent algorithm, software, and hardware innovation, computing has enabled a plethora of new applications. As computing becomes increasingly ubiquitous, however, so does its environmental impact. This paper brings the issue to the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Udit Gupta , Young Geun Kim , Sylvia Lee , Jordan Tse , Hsien-Hsin S. Lee , Gu-Yeon Wei , David Brooks , Carole-Jean Wu

Interactive urgent computing is a small but growing user of supercomputing resources. However there are numerous technical challenges that must be overcome to make supercomputers fully suited to the wide range of urgent workloads which…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Nick Brown , Rupert Nash , Gordon Gibb , Evgenij Belikov , Artur Podobas , Wei Der Chien , Stefano Markidis , Markus Flatken , Andreas Gerndt

Accurate reporting of energy and carbon usage is essential for understanding the potential climate impacts of machine learning research. We introduce a framework that makes this easier by providing a simple interface for tracking realtime…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Peter Henderson , Jieru Hu , Joshua Romoff , Emma Brunskill , Dan Jurafsky , Joelle Pineau

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

By providing unprecedented access to computational resources, cloud computing has enabled rapid growth in technologies such as machine learning, the computational demands of which incur a high energy cost and a commensurate carbon…

Scientific workflow has become essential in software engineering because it provides a structured approach to designing, executing, and analyzing scientific experiments. Software developers and researchers have developed hundreds of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Khairul Alam , Banani Roy , Alexander Serebrenik

Numerical simulations underpin much fluid dynamics research today. Such simulations often rely on large scale high performance computing (HPC) systems, and have a significant carbon footprint. Increasing the efficiency of data centers or…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-01-23 Miranda van Heel , Jack R. C. King

The prevalence of scientific workflows with high computational demands calls for their execution on various distributed computing platforms, including large-scale leadership-class high-performance computing (HPC) clusters. To handle the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Tainã Coleman , Henri Casanova , Ketan Maheshwari , Loïc Pottier , Sean R. Wilkinson , Justin Wozniak , Frédéric Suter , Mallikarjun Shankar , Rafael Ferreira da Silva

Provenance has been thought of a mechanism to verify a workflow and to provide workflow reproducibility. This provenance of scientific workflows has been effectively carried out in Grid based scientific workflow systems. However, recent…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-12-01 Khawar Hasham , Kamran Munir , Richard McClatchey

Infrastructure as a service clouds hide the complexity of maintaining the physical infrastructure with a slight disadvantage: they also hide their internal working details. Should users need knowledge about these details e.g., to increase…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Gabor Kecskemeti , Zsolt Nemeth , Attila Kertesz , Rajiv Ranjan

Computer-based scientific experiments are becoming increasingly data-intensive, necessitating the use of High-Performance Computing (HPC) clusters to handle large scientific workflows. These workflows result in complex data and control…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Zahra Sadeghibogar , Alessandro Berti , Marco Pegoraro , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

With the rise of AI in recent years and the increase in complexity of the models, the growing demand in computational resources is starting to pose a significant challenge. The need for higher compute power is being met with increasingly…

Complex scientific workflows can process large amounts of data using thousands of tasks. The turnaround times of these workflows are often affected by various latencies such as the resource discovery, scheduling and data access latencies…

The growing complexity and scale of scientific workflows in high performance computing (HPC) environments have led to significant challenges in managing energy consumption without compromising computational performance. Traditional…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Ali Zahir , Ashiq Anjum , Mark Wilkinson , Jeyan Thiyagalingam

The proliferation of commercial cloud computing providers has generated significant interest in the scientific computing community. Much recent research has attempted to determine the benefits and drawbacks of cloud computing for scientific…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Gideon Juve , Ewa Deelman , Karan Vahi , Gaurang Mehta , Bruce Berriman , Benjamin P. Berman , Phil Maechling

In the recent years, scientific workflows gained more and more popularity. In scientific workflows, tasks are typically treated as black boxes. Dealing with their complex interrelations to identify optimization potentials and bottlenecks is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Ansgar Lößer , Joel Witzke , Florian Schintke , Björn Scheuermann

CI/CD pipelines are widely used in software development, yet their environmental impact, particularly carbon and water footprints (CWF), remains largely unknown to developers, as CI service providers typically do not disclose such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Nuno Saavedra , Alexandra Mendes , João F. Ferreira

Scientific workflow is a powerful tool to streamline and organize computational steps of scientific application. This paper presents Emerald, a system that adds sophisticated cloud offloading capabilities to scientific workflows. Emerald…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-05 Hao Qian

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