Paper Info
Title
ACT: designing sustainable computer systems with an architectural carbon modeling tool
Abstract
Given the performance and efficiency optimizations realized by the computer systems and architecture community over the last decades, the dominating source of computing's carbon footprint is shifting from operational emissions to embodied emissions. These embodied emissions owe to hardware manufacturing and infrastructure-related activities. Despite the rising embodied emissions, there is a distinct lack of architectural modeling tools to quantify and optimize the end-to-end carbon footprint of computing. This work proposes ACT, an architectural carbon footprint modeling framework, to enable carbon characterization and sustainability-driven early design space exploration. Using ACT we demonstrate optimizing hardware for carbon yields distinct solutions compared to optimizing for performance and efficiency. We construct use cases, based on the three tenets of sustainable design---Reduce, Reuse, Recycle---to highlight future methods that enable strong performance and efficiency scaling in an environmentally sustainable manner.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1145/3470496.3527408
ISCA: International Symposium on Computer Architecture
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
Computer Architecture, sustainable computing, mobile, energy, manufacturing
Conference
1063-6897
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
6
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Udit Gupta100.34
Mariam Elgamal200.34
Gage Hills300.34
Gu-Yeon Wei41927214.15
Hsien-Hsin Sean Lee51657102.66
David Brooks65518422.08
Carole-Jean Wu743223.81