@inproceedings{0a6511e0483a4292beb24f5ff28bfb58,
title = "ACT: Designing Sustainable Computer Systems With An Architectural Carbon Modeling Tool",
abstract = "Given the performance and efciency 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 efciency. We construct use cases, based on the three tenets of sustainable design-Reduce, Reuse, Recycle-to highlight future methods that enable strong performance and efciency scaling in an environmentally sustainable manner.",
keywords = "Computer Architecture, Energy, Manufacturing, Mobile, Sustainable computing",
author = "Udit Gupta and Mariam Elgamal and Gage Hills and Wei, {Gu Yeon} and Lee, {Hsien Hsin S.} and David Brooks and Wu, {Carole Jean}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). Publication rights licensed to ACM.; 49th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Computer Architecture, ISCA 2022 ; Conference date: 18-06-2022 Through 22-06-2022",
year = "2022",
month = jun,
day = "18",
doi = "10.1145/3470496.3527408",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings - International Symposium on Computer Architecture",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "784--799",
booktitle = "ISCA 2022 - Proceedings of the 49th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture",
}