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SUMMARY:A CarbonFirst Approach for Decarbonizing Cloud Computing - Prashan
 t Shenoy\, University of Massachusetts
DTSTART:20241101T130000Z
DTEND:20241101T140000Z
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DESCRIPTION:*Abstract*\n\nThe exponential growth of cloud computing has be
 en a defining trend of our time\, fueled by rapidly growing demands from d
 ata-intensive and machine learning workloads. Despite the end of Dennard s
 caling\, the cloud's energy demand grew more slowly than expected over the
  past decade due to the aggressive implementation of energy-efficiency opt
 imizations. Unfortunately\, there are few significant remaining optimizati
 on opportunities using traditional methods\, and moving forward\, the clou
 d's continued exponential growth will translate into rising energy demand\
 , which\, if left unchecked\, will translate to increasing carbon emission
 s. \n\nIn this talk\, I will argue for a CarbonFirst approach to designing
  cloud computing systems by making carbon efficiency a first-class design 
 metric\, similar to traditional metrics of performance and reliability. I 
 will explain how today's systems can be made first carbon-aware by exposin
 g energy and carbon usage information to software platforms and then made 
 carbon-efficient by providing control over the system's carbon usage. I wi
 ll present an initial design of a system to enable such carbon awareness a
 nd management and present several application case studies on how modern c
 loud applications can employ these mechanisms to reduce their carbon footp
 rint. I will end with open research challenges in the emerging field of co
 mputational decarbonization.\n\n*Bio*\n\nPrashant Shenoy is currently a Di
 stinguished Professor and Associate Dean in the College of Information and
  Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He received
  the B.Tech degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Ins
 titute of Technology\, Bombay and the M.S and Ph.D degrees in Computer Sci
 ence from the University of Texas\, Austin. His research interests lie in 
 distributed systems and networking\, with a recent emphasis on cloud and s
 ustainable computing. He has been the recipient of several best paper awar
 ds at leading conferences\, including a Sigmetrics Test of Time Award. He 
 is a fellow of the ACM\, the IEEE\, and the AAAS.
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