Analysis of simulators and adaptation aiming to reduce CO2 emissions in data centers

• Grant number: 24/09487-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: September 01, 2024
• End date: November 01, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Computer Science - Computer Systems
• Principal Investigator: Daniel de Angelis Cordeiro
• Grantee: Gabriella Silva Saraiva
• Host Institution: Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades (EACH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 19/26702-8 - Trends on high performance computing, from resource management to new computer architectures, AP.TEM
• Associated scholarship(s): 24/23163-7 - Analysis of Simulators and Adaptation Aiming at the Reduction of CO2 Emissions in Data Centers, BE.EP.IC

Abstract

Human activities increasingly depend on computer programs that run on cloud computing platforms. The data centers on such platforms have considerably increased their processing capacities to cope with the growing demand. This increase has led us to a scenario in which 2% of all global energy demand in 2022 and approximately 2% of greenhouse gas emissions are due to these data centers. Several recent studies have proposed energy-aware computing resource management algorithms to reduce these impacts. However, developing, comparing, and turning them into tools that can be used in production is still very difficult due to the lack of realistic validation tools. In this work, we will investigate how to use simulators to mitigate these problems and facilitate the creation of new algorithms to reduce CO2 emissions from data centers significantly.