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 Jun 9, 2023 | Tags: datacenter, Datacenters, deep learning, deep neural networks, Machine Learning, Systems
Implications of Machine Learning (ML), be the training or inference serving, have steered systems and architecture research accordingly. A significant amount of work is happening in the Systems for ML space ranging from building efficient systems for data...
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by Caroline Trippel on Aug 15, 2022 | Tags: Datacenters, Errors, Reliability, Testing
Hyperscalers are reporting frequent silent data corruptions (SDCs)—a.k.a. silent errors or corrupt execution errors (CEEs)—in their cloud fleets caused by silicon manufacturing defects. Notably, SDCs at-scale exhibit error occurrence rates on the order of one fault...
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by Jaime H. Moreno, Hubertus Franke, Paul Crumley, Mengmei Ye on May 25, 2022 | Tags: Composable Systems, Datacenters, Security, Virtualization
Sharing computing resources in a microprocessor among multiple tenants (users, tasks) through virtualization, as currently done in datacenters, edge, and embedded environments, conflicts with the need to provide security, isolation, and performance stability. This...
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