[E-impact] Re: A view of the sustainable computing landscape

[Hesham ElBakoury <[e-mail]>]

Not only about recycling. Recycling Economy is certainly important issue to
consider when we talk about sustainability.

The paper also talks about operational carbon.

It also discusses an important issue related to *Demand Response.(DR)*
"As renewable energy proliferates, sustainable data centers must delay or
boost computation based on the availability of carbon-free energy. *Such
demand response (DR) requires grid and data center coordination.* One
interface would use real-time prices to incentivize data centers to
modulate energy use, but this departs from today’s contracts that charge
based on the amount of power provisioned rather than used. An alternative
interface would simply communicate carbon intensity, assuming data centers
would modulate demand without compensation. *DR will require hardware and
software to trade off performance and power*." As I mentioned in an earlier
email we need a framework to evaluate such tradeoffs.

Thanks
Hesham

On Mon, Jun 30, 2025, 1:32 AM <[e-mail]> wrote:

> IMO, It s really short about recycling.
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> *Sent:* Saturday, June 28, 2025 7:17 PM
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> *Subject:* [E-impact] A view of the sustainable computing landscape
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> This is the most recent paper which provides "a view of the sustainable
> computing landscape".
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> The paper is coauthored by authors from the following institutions:
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> University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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> Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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> Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA Carnegie Mellon University,
> Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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> California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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> Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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> This paper "presents an agenda for making computation more sustainable by
> rethinking how we design, build, and operate digital systems. The agenda is
> interdisciplinary and spans hardware design, software optimization, energy
> systems, and economic policy. It seeks to mitigate both embodied carbon,
> the emissions associated with manufacturing hardware like chips and
> servers, and operational carbon, the emissions associated with the
> electricity used to power this hardware. Reducing both types of emissions
> will require modular hardware organizations that allow greater reuse,
> energy-efficient data center design and management, and intelligent use of
> renewable or carbon-free energy. The authors encourage collaboration across
> disciplines—from computer science and engineering to economics and
> environmental science—to ensure that technical solutions align with
> societal goals"
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> This agenda is applicable to the sustainability architecture effort that
> Jari and Suresh are leading.
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> Hesham
> [1] https://www.cell.com/patterns/fulltext/S2666-3899(25)00144-8
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