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The end of Dennard scaling and the slowing of Moore's Law has put the energy use of datacenters on an unsustainable path. Datacenters are already a significant fraction of worldwide electricity use, with application demand scaling at a…

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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…

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Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Mohak Chadha , Thandayuthapani Subramanian , Eishi Arima , Michael Gerndt , Martin Schulz , Osama Abboud

Big data is gaining overwhelming attention since the last decade. Almost all the fields of science and technology have experienced a considerable impact from it. The cloud computing paradigm has been targeted for big data processing and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Hrishav Bakul Barua , Kartick Chandra Mondal

Serverless computing is an emerging cloud computing abstraction wherein the cloud platform transparently manages all resources, including explicitly provisioning resources and geographical load balancing when the demand for service spikes.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Jayden Serenari , Sreekanth Sreekumar , Kaiwen Zhao , Saurabh Sarkar , Stephen Lee

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

This paper explores the role of energy-awareness strategies into the deployment of applications across heterogeneous Edge-Cloud infrastructures. It proposes methods to inject into existing scheduling approaches energy metrics at a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Dalal Ali , Rute C. Sofia

At present, a major concern regarding data centers is their extremely high energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions. However, because of the over-provisioning of resources, the utilization of existing data centers is, in fact,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Xibo Jin , Fa Zhang , Athanasios V. Vasilakos , Zhiyong Liu

Cloud computing revolutionised the industry with its elastic, on-demand approach to computational resources, but has lead to a tremendous impact on the environment. Data centers constitute 1.1-1.5% of total electricity usage in the world.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-01-22 Dražen Lučanin , Ivona Brandić

High-Performance Computing (HPC) has recently entered the Exascale era, and considerable efforts are being made to fully harness this potential power for large-scale applications, such as cutting-edge generative AI (training and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Roblex Nana Tchakoute , Claude Tadonki

This paper represents the first effort to quantify uncertainty in carbon intensity forecasting for datacenter decarbonization. We identify and analyze two types of uncertainty -- temporal and spatial -- and discuss their system…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Amy Li , Sihang Liu , Yi Ding

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

Each day the world inches closer to a climate catastrophe and a sustainability revolution. To avoid the former and achieve the latter we must transform our use of energy. Surprisingly, today's growing problem is that there is too much wind…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Jennifer Switzer , Rob McGuinness , Pat Pannuto , George Porter , Aaron Schulman , Barath Raghavan

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…

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Nowadays cloud computing adoption as a form of hosted application and services is widespread due to decreasing costs of hardware, software, and maintenance. Cloud enables access to a shared pool of virtual resources hosted in large…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Niloofar Gholipour , Ehsan Arianyan , Rajkumar Buyya

Businesses have made increasing adoption and incorporation of cloud technology into internal processes in the last decade. The cloud-based deployment provides on-demand availability without active management. More recently, the concept of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Ying Mao , Yuqi Fu , Suwen Gu , Wenrui Mu , Long Cheng , Qingzhi Liu

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

Cloud based development is a challenging task for several software engineering projects, especially for those which needs development with reusability. Present time of cloud computing is allowing new professional models for using the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-11-01 Sukhpal Singh , Rishideep Singh

As large-scale data processing workloads continue to grow, their carbon footprint raises concerns. Prior research on carbon-aware schedulers has focused on shifting computation to align with availability of low-carbon energy, but these…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Adam Lechowicz , Rohan Shenoy , Noman Bashir , Mohammad Hajiesmaili , Adam Wierman , Christina Delimitrou

Realizing a shared responsibility between providers and consumers is critical to manage the sustainability of HPC. However, while cost may motivate efficiency improvements by infrastructure operators, broader progress is impeded by a lack…

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