Sustainability

The current state of affairs and a roadmap for effective carbon-accounting tooling in AI

Abhishek Gupta June 7, 2021 Jun 7, 2021 06/7/21

The societal case for carbon accounting of AI systems Digital services consume a lot of energy and it goes without saying that in a world with accelerating climate change, we must be conscious in all parts of life with our carbon footprints. In the case of the software that we write, specifically, the AI systems we build, these ...

Introducing EcoQoS

Raymond Li May 21, 2021 May 21, 2021 05/21/21

EcoQoS is a new Quality of Service (QoS) level introduced to Windows that developers can now opt-in to run their work efficiently, leading to better energy efficiency/increased battery life, reduced fan noise and power/thermal throttling.

Tuning Servers for Energy Savings

David Tang April 5, 2021 Apr 5, 2021 04/5/21

An overview of the key power and performance features, how to enable them, and touch on collecting traces and running benchmarks to see what’s impacted by these features. The goal of this article is to help you find the right sets of power configurations to be able to meet the demands of your workload while being energy efficient.

The Carbon Footprint Of AI

Will Buchanan October 26, 2020 Oct 26, 2020 10/26/20

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform how we fight climate change. However, it also increasingly contributes to it: the carbon footprint of AI is growing exponentially. Bigger models, more data, and deployments contribute towards 'RedAI'. A nascent field called 'GreenAI' is focused on measuring & mitigating this.

Reducing the carbon and financial cost of your cloud applications

Paola October 12, 2020 Oct 12, 2020 10/12/20

In my job as a cloud architect working with large enterprises, there has always been a specific “moment of truth” when the customer realizes that cloud costs are something that needs to be monitored daily to avoid unpleasant surprises with the end of the month’s bill. Enterprises can take several steps toward understanding cloud costs ...

Carbon-Aware Kubernetes

Bill Johnson October 5, 2020 Oct 5, 2020 10/5/20

If you are running microservices these days there is a high probability you are managing them with Kubernetes. Kubernetes makes container management easy and its websites boasts of “Planet Scale”, “Never Outgrow”, and “Run Anywhere” as some of its key features. As a Sustainable Software Engineer, I read those phrases as more of a ...

Balancing the Three Areas of Sustainability Engineering

Bill Johnson August 24, 2020 Aug 24, 2020 08/24/20

Sustainability in Software Engineering Software engineering has evolved over the years as new capabilities are discovered and new information introduced. Software developers and operations engineers were typically seen as two very separate roles. Once the cloud began to commoditize hardware these roles began to blend together into a new ...

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Introducing EcoQoS

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The Carbon Footprint Of AI

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Balancing the Three Areas of Sustainability Engineering

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