From 6a97bd62ee13293fe1f22be3ca623f18c6475edc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: gshen42 Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 05:02:18 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] regenerate after: Add Jennifer's talk info --- index.xml | 15 +++++++++++++-- lsd-seminar/2024sp/index.html | 15 +++++++++++++-- themes/academic | 1 + 3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) create mode 160000 themes/academic diff --git a/index.xml b/index.xml index 9069be1..d372da4 100644 --- a/index.xml +++ b/index.xml @@ -58,9 +58,9 @@ </tr> <tr> -<td>April 26</td> +<td><a href="#april-26">April 26</a></td> <td>Jennifer Switzer</td> -<td><em>TBD</em></td> +<td>Hardware Repurposing to Reduce the Embodied Carbon of Computing</td> </tr> <tr> @@ -151,6 +151,17 @@ <p><strong>Bio:</strong> I am Ismail Kuru, a final year PhD student at Drexel University, and I am advised by Dr. Colin S. Gordon. Right before coming to Drexel, I was a senior software engineer at CRYTEK Gaming Company. Before then, I had finished my computer science masters courses at TU Munich and graduated with an M.S. degree from Koc University as a Microsoft Research EMEA scholar for graduate studies.</p> +<h2 id="april-26">April 26</h2> + +<p><strong>Speaker:</strong> Jennifer Switzer</p> + +<p><strong>Title:</strong> Hardware Repurposing to Reduce the Embodied Carbon of Computing</p> + +<p><strong>Abstract:</strong> Sustainable computing efforts have traditionally focused on runtime efficiency. However, a significant fraction of the carbon emissions associated with computing systems are incurred not during use, but rather manufacture. These embodied emissions are responsible for 40% of the lifetime carbon footprint for server-class hardware, and as much as 80% for consumer electronics like smartphones. +This work presents a new way of thinking about sustainable computing, in terms of both operational and embodied emissions. It explores one consequence of this thinking—that reducing the demand for newly manufactured hardware is an important strategy for emissions reduction. To this end, we propose the repurposing of consumer-class hardware as general purpose computing or sensing hardware. This is explored through several real-world deployments of repurposed smartphones. We find that repurposed devices can provide a computing platform that is several times more carbon-efficient than the alternative of manufacturing new hardware, and explore the applications for which repurposed devices are best suited.</p> + +<p><strong>Bio:</strong> Jennifer Switzer is a PhD candidate at UC San Diego. Her research interests lie at the intersection of sustainability and computing systems, and especially efforts to reduce the embodied carbon footprint of computing. She is supported by a Google Fellowship.</p> + <hr /> <p><a href="../">Archive</a></p> diff --git a/lsd-seminar/2024sp/index.html b/lsd-seminar/2024sp/index.html index d46df16..e1154d1 100644 --- a/lsd-seminar/2024sp/index.html +++ b/lsd-seminar/2024sp/index.html @@ -239,9 +239,9 @@

Languages, Systems, and Data Seminar (Spring 2024)

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Bio: I am Ismail Kuru, a final year PhD student at Drexel University, and I am advised by Dr. Colin S. Gordon. Right before coming to Drexel, I was a senior software engineer at CRYTEK Gaming Company. Before then, I had finished my computer science masters courses at TU Munich and graduated with an M.S. degree from Koc University as a Microsoft Research EMEA scholar for graduate studies.

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April 26

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Speaker: Jennifer Switzer

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Title: Hardware Repurposing to Reduce the Embodied Carbon of Computing

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Abstract: Sustainable computing efforts have traditionally focused on runtime efficiency. However, a significant fraction of the carbon emissions associated with computing systems are incurred not during use, but rather manufacture. These embodied emissions are responsible for 40% of the lifetime carbon footprint for server-class hardware, and as much as 80% for consumer electronics like smartphones. +This work presents a new way of thinking about sustainable computing, in terms of both operational and embodied emissions. It explores one consequence of this thinking—that reducing the demand for newly manufactured hardware is an important strategy for emissions reduction. To this end, we propose the repurposing of consumer-class hardware as general purpose computing or sensing hardware. This is explored through several real-world deployments of repurposed smartphones. We find that repurposed devices can provide a computing platform that is several times more carbon-efficient than the alternative of manufacturing new hardware, and explore the applications for which repurposed devices are best suited.

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Bio: Jennifer Switzer is a PhD candidate at UC San Diego. Her research interests lie at the intersection of sustainability and computing systems, and especially efforts to reduce the embodied carbon footprint of computing. She is supported by a Google Fellowship.

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Archive

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