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。 虽然能源已成为缓解热问题或延长移动设备电池寿命的重要指标，但能源效率在很大程度上忽视了可持续性，特别是计算对地球环境和能源资源的影响。 例如，虽然集成电路 (IC) 制造的具体环境成本（例如碳排放）通常超过其运营碳足迹，但这一点相对未知，或者在计算界中被认为是相反的情况。此外，电子设备中钽、钨和金等稀有金属的使用不可避免地导致地球资源的枯竭。 迫切需要考虑计算基础设施运行阶段能源消耗之外的因素，以真正应对整个计算生命周期中存在的碳和其他有害排放，从而应对气候变化的生存威胁。 该项目提出了一系列面向社区的活动，最终举办了一次研讨会，以提高计算领域研究人员对可持续计算这些因素的认识，并明确实现可持续计算的挑战和潜在的可能解决方案，包括计算技术的操作阶段。 一个特定的目标是促进不同学科的研究人员之间的思想交叉授粉，这些学科不仅包括计算科学，还包括环境科学和政治科学，以确定计算基础设施设计和运营的可持续方法。该项目的新颖性和智力价值在于确定了需要弥合的知识差距，以真正使计算机可持续发展。 特别是，该项目将首先邀请来自不同领域的专家进行一系列的邀请演讲，他们对最终影响针对计算研究人员的计算资源的可持续性的这些方面有深入的见解。 这些演讲将通过在线平台远程进行。在这些富有启发性的演讲之后，该项目将举办一场现场研讨会，将计算研究人员聚集在一起，讨论从演讲中汲取的经验教训，以及如何将这些想法融入到各种类型的计算设备中，从低功耗微型系统（例如物联网（IoT）设备）到仓库规模的计算机（例如数据中心）。通过这些活动，目的是提高意识和战略，为计算系统创造一个可持续的未来。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。