System Support for Environmentally Sustainable Computing in Data Centers

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12698v1
• Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2024 12:56:02 GMT
• Title: System Support for Environmentally Sustainable Computing in Data Centers
• Authors: Fan Chen,
• Abstract summary: Modern data centers suffer from a growing carbon footprint due to insufficient support for environmental sustainability. We present our preliminary results and recognize this as an ongoing initiative with significant potential to advance environmentally sustainable computing in data centers.
• Score: 4.774769264608661
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Modern data centers suffer from a growing carbon footprint due to insufficient support for environmental sustainability. While hardware accelerators and renewable energy have been utilized to enhance sustainability, addressing Quality of Service (QoS) degradation caused by renewable energy supply and hardware recycling remains challenging: (1) prior accelerators exhibit significant carbon footprints due to limited reconfigurability and inability to adapt to renewable energy fluctuations; (2) integrating recycled NAND flash chips in data centers poses challenges due to their short lifetime, increasing energy consumption; (3) the absence of a sustainability estimator impedes data centers and users in evaluating and improving their environmental impact. This study aims to improve system support for environmentally sustainable data centers by proposing a reconfigurable hardware accelerator for intensive computing primitives and developing a fractional NAND flash cell to extend the lifetime of recycled flash chips while supporting graceful capacity degradation. We also introduce a sustainability estimator to evaluate user task energy consumption and promote sustainable practices. We present our preliminary results and recognize this as an ongoing initiative with significant potential to advance environmentally sustainable computing in data centers and stimulate further exploration in this critical research domain.

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