Collaborative Research: Workshop Series on Sustainable Computing

协作研究：可持续计算研讨会系列

• 批准号: 2126020
• 负责人: Massoud Pedram
• 金额: $ 0.8万
• 依托单位: University of Southern California
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-05-01 至 2022-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2126020&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Workshop; Series; Sustainable

The advancement of computing remains focused on ever increasing performance. While energy has become a metric of interest for mitigating thermal issues or increasing battery life of mobile devices, energy efficiency has largely neglected sustainability and in particular, computing's impact on the environment and energy resources of the planet. For example, while embodied environmental costs (e.g., carbon emissions) of integrated-circuit (IC) manufacturing often exceed its operational carbon footprint, this is relatively unknown or the reverse is presumed to be true in the computing community. Furthermore, the use of rare metals such as tantalum, tungsten, and gold, in electronic equipment contribute to the inevitable exhaustion of the planet's resources. There is an urgent need to consider factors beyond operational-phase energy consumption of the computing infrastructure to truly combat carbon and other harmful emissions present during the full computing lifecycle to combat the existential threat of climate change. This project proposes a series of community oriented activities culminating in a workshop to both increase awareness among researchers in the domain of computing about these factors of sustainable computing and to specify the challenges and potential possible solutions to achieve sustainable computing including, but also beyond the operational phase of the computing technology. A particular goal will be to facilitate cross pollination of ideas among researchers across different disciplines encompassing not only computing sciences but also, environmental sciences and political sciences to identify sustainable methodologies for design and operation of computing infrastructure. The novelty and intellectual merit of this project is in identifying gaps in knowledge that need to be bridged to truly make computers sustainable. In particular, this project will start with a series of invited talks from experts from diverse fields with deep insights on these aspects that ultimately affect the sustainability of computing resources targeted at computing researchers. These talks will be delivered remotely with an online platform. Following these enlightening talks, this project will host an in-person workshop bringing computing researchers together to discuss the lessons learned from the talks and how these ideas can be incorporated in various types of computing devices from low power miniature systems such as Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices to warehouse-scale computers such as data centers. Through this activities, the intention is to create awareness and strategies to create a sustainable future for computing systems.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.

计算的进步仍然集中在不断提高的性能上。 尽管能源已成为减轻热问题或增加移动设备电池寿命的兴趣指标，但能源效率在很大程度上忽略了可持续性，尤其是计算对地球的环境和能源的影响。 例如，虽然综合电路（IC）制造的体现环境成本（例如碳排放）通常超过其运营碳足迹，但这相对未知，或者在计算社区中推测相反。此外，在电子设备中使用稀有金属，例如塔塔勒姆，钨和黄金，这有助于不可避免地精疲力尽地球资源。 迫切需要考虑超出计算基础设施的操作 - 相阶段能源消耗的因素，以真正打击完整计算机生命周期期间存在的其他有害排放，以应对气候变化的存在威胁。 该项目提出了一系列面向社区的活动，最终在研讨会上达到了研究人员在计算这些可持续计算因素的领域的认识，并指定了实现可持续计算的挑战和潜在的解决方案，包括计算技术的运营阶段。 一个特定的目标是促进在不同学科的研究人员之间的思想交叉授粉，不仅包括计算科学，而且还包括环境科学和政治科学，以确定用于计算基础设施的设计和运作的可持续方法。该项目的新颖性和知识分子在于确定需要桥接以使计算机可持续的知识的差距。 特别是，该项目将从来自不同领域的专家的一系列邀请演讲开始，对这些方面有深刻的见解，最终影响了针对计算研究人员的计算资源的可持续性。 这些谈话将通过在线平台进行远程交流。在这些启发性的演讲之后，该项目将举办一个面对面的研讨会，将计算机研究人员汇集在一起​​，讨论从谈判中学到的经验教训，以及如何将这些想法从低功率微型系统（例如诸如Thinghouse）设备等各种类型的计算设备中纳入到各种类型的计算设备中，以将其纳入仓库规模计算机，例如数据中心。通过这项活动，目的是建立意识和策略，以创造计算系统的可持续未来。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准通过评估来支持的。