Designing cloud servers for lower carbon

J Wang, DS Berger, F Kazhamiaka… - 2024 ACM/IEEE 51st …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To mitigate climate change, we must reduce carbon emissions from hyperscale cloud
computing. We find that cloud compute servers cause the majority of emissions in a general …

Understanding silent data corruptions in a large production cpu population

S Wang, G Zhang, J Wei, Y Wang, J Wu… - Proceedings of the 29th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Silent Data Corruption (SDC) in processors can lead to various application-level issues,
such as incorrect calculations and even data loss. Since traditional techniques are not …

{FairyWREN}: A Sustainable Cache for Emerging {Write-Read-Erase} Flash Interfaces

S McAllister, B Berg, DS Berger… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2024 - usenix.org
Datacenters need to reduce embodied carbon emissions, particularly for flash, which
accounts for 40% of embodied carbon in servers. However, decreasing flash's embodied …

Siloz: Leveraging DRAM Isolation Domains to Prevent Inter-VM Rowhammer

K Loughlin, J Rosenblum, S Saroiu, A Wolman… - Proceedings of the 29th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Today's cloud DRAM lacks strong isolation primitives, highlighted by Rowhammer bit flips.
Rowhammer poses an increasing threat to cloud security/reliability, given (1) DRAM …

SmartOClock: Workload-and risk-aware overclocking in the cloud

J Stojkovic, PA Misra, Í Goiri, S Whitlock… - 2024 ACM/IEEE 51st …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Operating server components beyond their voltage and power design limit (ie, overclocking)
enables improving performance and lowering cost for cloud workloads. However …

Myths and misconceptions around reducing carbon embedded in cloud platforms

J Lyu, J Wang, K Frost, C Zhang, C Irvene… - Proceedings of the 2nd …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Major cloud providers have stated public plans to lower their carbon emissions. Historically,
this has meant focusing on emissions from producing the electricity consumed by …

Dense Server Design for Immersion Cooling

M Kodnongbua, Z Englhardt, R Bianchini… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The growing demands for computational power in cloud computing have led to a significant
increase in the deployment of high-performance servers. The growing power consumption of …

[PDF][PDF] A call for research on storage emissions

S McAllister, F Kazhamiaka… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - saramcallister.github.io
Major cloud providers have committed to lowering carbon emissions by 2030 across their
datacenters, and research has contributed many ideas on how this may be achieved …

Understanding Silent Data Corruption in Processors for Mitigating its Effects

S Wang, G Zhang, J Wei, Y Wang, J Wu… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Silent Data Corruption (SDC) in processors can lead to various application-level issues,
such as incorrect calculations and even data loss. Since traditional techniques are not …

An agile pathway towards carbon-aware clouds

P Patel, T Gregersen, T Anderson - ACM SIGENERGY Energy …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Climate change is a pressing threat to planetary well-being that can be addressed only by
rapid near-term actions across all sectors. Yet, the cloud computing sector, with its …