by Daniel S. Berger, David Brooks, Fiodar Kazhamiaka, Mark D. Hill, Ricardo Bianchini, Carole-Jean Wu, Karin Strauss, Kali Frost, Jaylen Wang, Kevin Martins, Sharon Gillett, Esha Choukse, Dan Ernst, Rodrigo Fonseca, Kari Lio, Bhargavi Narayanasetty, Pratyush Patel, Celine Irvene, Akshitha Sriraman, George Porter, Alex Jones, Udit Gupta, Bilge Acun-Uyan, Kim Hazelwood, and Doug Carmean on Aug 3, 2023 | Tags: Accelerators, amd, apple, Architecture, Carbon emissions, Cloud computing, Datacenters, embodied carbon, intel, Measurements, nvidia, operational carbon, qualcomm, Sustainability, tsmc
A recent post raises awareness of the challenges of reducing operational carbon, while also controversially challenging the importance of embodied carbon. We rebut the arguments raised against using embodied carbon as a design metric and conclude by advocating for more research on reducing embodied carbon.
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by Andrew A. Chien on Jul 24, 2023 | Tags: Accelerators, amd, apple, Cloud computing, Datacenters, embodied carbon, intel, nvidia, operational carbon, qualcomm, Sustainability, tsmc
I. Embodied Carbon Recently, embodied carbon, defined as the Scope 3 GHG emissions that arise from the manufacturing processes that lead to computing electronics, has become popular as an architectural metric for sustainability. If you are considering it or using it,...
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by Neeraja Yadwadkar on May 12, 2022 | Tags: Cloud computing, Datacenters, Machine Learning
It was more than 10 years ago that I first started studying machine learning (ML). Serendipitously, I ended up leveraging ML techniques developed for biological sequence analysis for optimizing storage systems. In the recent past, I have focused on optimizing and...
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by Xiangyao Yu on Apr 13, 2022 | Tags: Cloud computing, Databases, Datacenters, Emerging Technology, Memory Disaggregation, Near Data Computing, Storage
The memory and storage hierarchy deepens in modern systems. To mitigate the low performance of memory/storage devices at the bottom of the hierarchy, near-data processing has been studied across different memory and storage devices as a means to reduce access latency...
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by Jakub Szefer on May 11, 2021 | Tags: Cloud computing, FPGA, Security
FPGAs in Cloud Computing The availability of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) in cloud datacenters has opened up new ways to improve application performance by letting users write their own custom hardware accelerators that they can realize on the FPGAs....
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