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Untangling Carbon-free Energy Attribution and Carbon Intensity Estimation for Carbon-aware Computing
Diptyaroop Maji, Noman Bashir, David Irwin +2
Many organizations, including governments, utilities, and businesses, have set ambitious targets to reduce carbon emissions for their Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) go…
The War of the Efficiencies: Understanding the Tension between Carbon and Energy Optimization
Walid A. Hanafy, Roozbeh Bostandoost, Noman Bashir +3
Major innovations in computing have been driven by scaling up computing infrastructure, while aggressively optimizing operating costs. The result is a network of worldwide datacent…
CarbonScaler: Leveraging Cloud Workload Elasticity for Optimizing Carbon-Efficiency
Walid A. Hanafy, Qianlin Liang, Noman Bashir +2
Cloud platforms are increasing their emphasis on sustainability and reducing their operational carbon footprint. A common approach for reducing carbon emissions is to exploit the t…
Ecovisor: A Virtual Energy System for Carbon-Efficient Applications
Abel Souza, Noman Bashir, Jorge Murillo +4
Cloud platforms' rapid growth is raising significant concerns about their carbon emissions. To reduce emissions, future cloud platforms will need to increase their reliance on rene…
Sustainable Computing -- Without the Hot Air
Noman Bashir, David Irwin, Prashant Shenoy +1
The demand for computing is continuing to grow exponentially. This growth will translate to exponential growth in computing's energy consumption unless improvements in its energy-e…
A Moment in the Sun: Solar Nowcasting from Multispectral Satellite Data using Self-Supervised Learning
Akansha Singh Bansal, Trapit Bansal, David Irwin
Solar energy is now the cheapest form of electricity in history. Unfortunately, significantly increasing the grid's fraction of solar energy remains challenging due to its variabil…