{"666372":{"#nid":"666372","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Special Lecture on Sustainability \u0026 Computing | Compute, Information, Lifetime: Paradigm Changing Opportunities to Improve Computing\u2019s Environmental Sustainability","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract\u003C\/strong\u003E: Computing\u0026rsquo;s rapid proliferation has rapidly growing negative environmental impacts.\u0026nbsp; See \u0026ldquo;What do Computing and DDT have in Common?\u0026rdquo;, CACM, June 2020.\u0026nbsp; To harvest computing\u0026rsquo;s benefits, we must go beyond efficiency, considering macroscopic and ecosystem effects to address computing\u0026rsquo;s environmental sustainability.\u0026nbsp; These are difficult challenges, but we will discuss three paradigm changing opportunities for improvement and some encouraging progress.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCompute and Carbon Emissions. We can eliminate much of the Scope 2 carbon emissions of computing.\u0026nbsp; We will describe the Zero carbon Cloud, and future visions \u0026ldquo;Good, Better, and Best!\u0026rdquo; that reflect the realities of renewable energy markets. \u0026nbsp;Zccloud shows how datacenters can create synergies with the power grid that accelerate decarbonization, rather than retard it.\u0026nbsp; New Paradigm: Computing that is flexible in time and space and responsive to the environment.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nInformation and Flexibility.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;We should build intelligent, flexible applications that adapt and follow the availability of zero-carbon power with time scales of hours and days (mesoscale).\u0026nbsp; Doing so requires information on current and future power grid status \u0026ndash;renewable generation, power use, and even the \u0026ldquo;flexing\u0026rdquo; of other loads.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; But current grid information is insufficient in metrics, timeliness, spatial resolution, accurate futures.\u0026nbsp; Our RiPiT project is exploring these needs.\u0026nbsp; New Paradigm: Information services that enable intelligent flex and coordinate competition for low-carbon energy, and flexible applications that can exploit them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nLIFETIME - NAVIGATING DENNARD, CARBON, AND MOORE.\u0026nbsp; Computing has a fast-fashion culture problem, rooted in Moore\u0026rsquo;s law and rapid improvement. But technology is changing, what continues to drive rapid upgrades that increase e-waste and embodied carbon consumption?\u0026nbsp; Its compute density and power efficiency, but also fashion and software.\u0026nbsp; But there are emerging opportunities for 2nd life and circular economy of hardware.\u0026nbsp; New Paradigm: Create new pathways to extend the lifetime of hardware to reduce e-waste and embodied carbon.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EBio: \u003C\/strong\u003EAndrew A Chien is the William Eckhardt Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago and Senior Scientist at Argonne National Laboratories.\u0026nbsp; He has led the Zero-carbon Cloud project since 2015, and is well-known for his research on datacenters, renewable energy and sustainability, cloud resource management and software, large-scale system architecture, and graph computing architecture.\u0026nbsp; Chien has received numerous recognitions for his research.\u0026nbsp; Dr. Chien currently serves on the NSF CISE Advisory Committee and DARPA ISAT.\u0026nbsp; He is a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE, and AAAS.\u0026nbsp; He served as EiC of Communications of the ACM, 2017-2022, and Vice President of Research at Intel Corporation from 2005-2010.\u0026nbsp; He has served on the Faculty of the University of Illinois and as SAIC Chair Professor of University of California, San Diego.\u0026nbsp; He received BS, MS, and PhD degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECo-Hosted by the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems \u0026amp; the The Institute for Data Engineering and Science at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Featuring Andrew A. 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