Collaborative Research: DESC: Type 2: Delphi: Life-time aware design frameworks for sustainable edge devices

合作研究：DESC：类型 2：Delphi：可持续边缘设备的生命周期感知设计框架

• 批准号: 2324861
• 负责人: Josiah Hester
• 金额: $ 57万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2027-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2324861&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; DESC; Type; Delphi

Edge devices like wearable watches and cameras, phones, and sensors in homes, factories, and farms, have become the foundation of our daily interactions with technology and the source of significant data for numerous critical sectors like health and manufacturing. Unfortunately, the exponential growth in sheer numbers of these devices comes at a significant environmental cost. User and edge devices alone account for over one-third of the 4% of global carbon emissions attributed to information and communication technologies. This ecological impact is projected to worsen as the number of edge devices surges into the trillions over the next few decades. This project develops Delphi, an end-to-end framework that prioritizes environmental impact while considering user experience, performance, and efficiency when designing edge devices. Delphi will enable sustainable technological growth by allowing for the design of environmentally conscious edge devices throughout their lifecycle. Via Delphi, software and hardware designers will be better able to reduce the potential environmental harms of computing while still offering valuable computational services for users and society. The project will lay the foundations for devices that can last for decades, potentially reducing e-waste and transient, short-lived devices designed to minimize environmental footprint. The project will integrate sustainability into college courses, provide broader online educational modules, and host a sustainability hackathon. Delphi tools themselves will be open-source, open hardware, and come with open datasets– all to facilitate further research and enable carbon-aware design to ensure a more sustainable future for computing. This project seeks to make carbon and sustainability a first-order design parameter for future edge computing devices that range from tiny, energy-harvesting Internet of Things (IoT) devices to higher-performance consumer electronics. Delphi is a suite of carbon-aware design tools that consider factors like energy, e-waste, and water usage from the manufacturing of computational devices, as well as operation carbon factors of machine learning and software lifecycles. The framework covers sensors, computing, communication, and power, accommodating various edge devices, and includes probabilistic analysis of machine learning workflows design and their operational and embodied carbon impact. The project's research has three major tasks. First, quantifying device environmental impact by collecting a first-of-its-kind dataset via a state-of-the-art academic clean room, the Cornell Nanoscale Facility (CNF), with architectural carbon models for salient device components (e.g., processor, memory and storage, energy harvesting modules). This task integrates data into new foundational carbon models, guiding all research tasks. Second, tools for the design of systems with sustainability as a first-order design target, alongside performance and quality of service. The task develops Electronic Sustainability Records for devices on the Pareto-frontier to maintain system-specific sustainability ledgers to track environmental telemetry across the operational lifetime of devices. Finally, the third task develops runtime sustainability managers, including humans in the loop, to reduce device obsolescence. The software will gracefully degrade and upgrade system performance based on user choices, static lifetime requirements, and environmental factors. The comprehensive framework's effectiveness is demonstrated through short-lived "Ephemeral devices" and lifelong companion health and wellness wearable devices, nicknamed the "Infinite Bit." These two device archetypes provide a mechanism for continuous validation as the project matures.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.

诸如可穿戴手表和相机，手机以及房屋，工厂和农场中的传感器之类的边缘设备已成为我们日常与技术互动的基础，并且是众多关键部门（如健康和制造）的重要数据来源。不幸的是，这些设备数量的呈指数增长，其环境成本很高。仅用户和边缘设备将归因于信息和通信技术的全球4％的全球碳排放量的三分之一以上。随着边缘设备的数量在未来几十年中涌入数万亿美元，这种生态影响预计会担心。该项目开发Delphi是一个端到端的框架，在设计边缘设备时考虑用户体验，性能和效率，优先考虑环境影响。 Delphi将通过允许在其整个生命周期内设计环境意识的边缘设备来实现可持续的技术增长。通过Delphi，软件和硬件设计人员将更好地减少计算的潜在环境危害，同时仍为用户和社会提供有价值的计算服务。该项目将为可以持续数十年的设备奠定基础，从而有可能减少旨在最大程度地减少环境足迹的短暂和短暂的，短暂的设备。该项目将将可持续性纳入大学课程，提供更广泛的在线教育模块，并举办可持续性黑客马拉松。 Delphi工具本身将是开源的，开放的硬件，并带有开放数据集 - 所有这些都可以促进进一步的研究并实现碳感知设计，以确保计算更可持续的未来。该项目旨在使碳和可持续性成为未来边缘计算设备的一阶设计参数，其范围从微型，能源收获的物联网（IoT）设备到高性能消费电子产品。 Delphi是一套碳吸引设计工具的套件，它考虑了计算设备制造的能源，电子废物和用水量等因素，以及机器学习和软件生命周期的操作碳因素。该框架涵盖了传感器，计算，通信和功率，可容纳各种边缘设备，并包括对机器学习工作流程设计及其操作和具体碳影响的有问题分析。该项目的研究有三个主要任务。首先，通过通过最先进的学术清洁室，康奈尔纳米级设施（CNF）收集首个数据集，从而量化设备的环境影响，并配备了用于显着设备组件的建筑碳模型（例如，处理器，内存和存储，能源收获模块）。该任务将数据集成到新的基础碳模型中，从而指导所有研究任务。其次，以及具有可持续性作为一阶设计目标的系统设计的工具，以及性能和服务质量。帕累托 - 弗朗特（Pareto-Frontier）设备的任务开发电子可持续性记录，以维护系统特定的可持续性分类帐，以跟踪设备运营寿命的环境遥测。最后，第三个任务发展运行时可持续性经理，包括循环中的人类，以减少设备过时。该软件将根据用户选择，静态终生要求和环境因素优雅地降低和升级系统性能。综合框架的有效性是通过短暂的“短暂设备”和终身伴侣健康和健康可穿戴设备所证明的，被昵称为“无限位”。随着项目的成熟，这两种设备原型提供了一种连续验证的机制。该奖项反映了NSF的坚定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准来评估，被视为珍贵的支持。