Collaborative Research: NGSDI: Foundations of Clean and Balanced Datacenters: Treehouse

合作研究：NGSDI：清洁和平衡数据中心的基础：Treehouse

• 批准号: 2104292
• 负责人: Asaf Cidon
• 金额: $ 37.94万
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-05-01 至 2025-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2104292&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; NGSDI; Foundations; Clean

Computing requires energy. Most computing is done in centralized hubs called datacenters. Datacenters consume an estimated 1-2% of worldwide electricity production. Datacenter computing, and its energy use, is projected to continue to grow rapidly, perhaps as fast as doubling every few years. This is simply not sustainable. The Treehouse project aims to improve the energy efficiency of datacenter computing by making datacenter computing energy use accountable to users at a fine-grained level and by reducing unnecessary waste in the most frequently used parts of datacenter computation. Treehouse improves datacenter energy efficiency in several ways. Treehouse introduces a new computational abstraction that allows new energy optimizations by both application developers (by making application energy use visible at a fine-grained level) and systems designers (by identifying when energy-efficient optimizations can be safely performed without compromising user goals for application performance and reliability). Additional strategies include reducing unnecessary software bloat, reducing resource stranding, and new algorithms to exploit the opportunity posed by new types of hardware with complex tradeoffs between performance and energy use. Beyond better energy and resource management, Treehouse provides end users the tools to understand and reduce their individual carbon use from cloud services. This can fundamentally change the way the cloud computing industry thinks about datacenter energy use. Datacenter operators can provide new energy efficient computing models at lower cost. Treehouse software systems and protocols will be open source. Through outreach and new educational materials, Treehouse will pioneer the training of a new type of energy-aware engineer to meet societal needs for an energy-efficient computing infrastructure. Treehouse will produce software artifacts, hardware designs, and the results of running those programs and artifacts. These materials will be available for public use under a permissive open source license, archived in multiple locations, and available at the project website treehouse.cs.washington.edu for at least five years after the completion of the project.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

计算需要能量。大多数计算是在称为数据中心的集中式枢纽中完成的。 数据中心估计占全球电力生产的1-2％。数据中心计算及其能源使用预计将继续迅速增长，也许与每隔几年加倍的速度迅速增长。这根本是不可持续的。 Treehouse项目旨在通过使数据中心计算能源使用能够以细粒度的水平对用户负责，并减少数据中心计算中最常用的部分中的不必要浪费来提高数据中心计算的能效。 TreeHouse通过多种方式提高了数据中心能源效率。 Treehouse引入了一种新的计算抽象，该抽象允许应用程序开发人员（通过使应用程序在细粒度上可见）和系统设计人员（通过确定何时可以安全地执行能源优化的情况下，而无需损害应用程序性能和可靠性的用户目标，可以安全地执行能源有效的优化）。其他策略包括减少不必要的软件膨胀，减少资源障碍以及新算法，以利用新型硬件带来的机会，在性能和能源使用之间具有复杂的权衡。除了更好的能源和资源管理之外，TreeHouse还为最终用户提供了了解和减少云服务中个人碳使用的工具。这可以从根本上改变云计算行业对数据中心能源使用的看法。数据中心运营商可以以较低的成本提供新的节能计算模型。树屋软件系统和协议将是开源。通过外展和新的教育材料，Treehouse将开创对一种新型能源感知工程师的培训，以满足能节能计算基础设施的社会需求。 Treehouse将生产软件工件，硬件设计以及运行这些程序和工件的结果。这些材料将在宽敞的开源许可下可供公开使用，在多个地点存档，并在项目完成后至少五年可在Project teewhouse.cs.washington.edu上使用。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过该基金会的知识分子的优点和广泛的影响来评估NSF的法定任务。