NetZero 2023: 1st Workshop on NetZero Carbon Computing

Co-located with the 29th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-29)

The large and growing societal need for compute has resulted in a large and growing carbon footprint, both from deployed devices' energy demands as well as the manufacturing and disposal of devices throughout their lifetime.

Netzero carbon computing is the goal to build large computing systems from edge/IoT to large scale data centers such that their total carbon generation is net zero. This involves the use of renewable energy sources, methods for computing to offset carbon generation in other areas, as well as full life-cycle study and mitigation of carbon throughout the system lifecycle. It may involve creative reuse of existing silicon devices as well as methods to build new ways to do computing that rely less on carbon emission. Of special interest are ways to change the computing mindset from innovation for the sake of innovation to conservation and targeted use of computing for solving important challenges of society. Considering the tradeoff of specialized computing versus general purpose computing for different problem areas is of interest.

Netzero carbon is considered to be a sumtotal of zero carbon among embodied operational, recycling, and disposal stages of the computing and development lifecycle. Netzero proposals and approaches for other environmental impacts are also welcome.

Topics relevant to this workshop include:

Sustainable compilation for next generational sustainable computing architectures
Techniques to address full life-cycle reduction of carbon from manufacturing to end-of-life.
Programming language support for energy and carbon awareness
Cross-layer transparency related to energy availability
Hardware reuse and alternatives to premature end-of-life
Security support for legacy devices and devices past their engineered end-of-life
Debloat, especially for large, distributed software systems
How computing fits into the digital economy and sustainable ecosystem.

Updates and news

Dec 12: The HPCA 2023 Main Program is now available!
Registration now available (see next section)

Registration

To register for the NetZero workshop that is part of HPCA, please visit the HPCA registration portal

Technical program

The call for papers is available at this URL.

The program is available at this URL

Key Dates and locations

Date: Feb 25, 2023 (immediately before HPCA 2023)
Location: Hotel Bonaventure Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Paper abstract submission deadline: Jan 15, 2023 (AoE)
Notification: Feb 1, 2023

Call for talks/papers

We are soliciting talks that report on research results, ongoing work, new results, cutting edge ideas, and other talks that will result in lively debate and discussion. Those wishing to participate should submit a short abstract, no longer than 2 pages, including figures and tables.

Talk proposal abstracts should be submitted as PDF files via the web submission form.

Full versions of accepted talks will be required after the workshop, and will ultimately published on the conference website, along with slides of the presentation, video of the talk, and in some cases a summary of the discussion.

This workshop will adhere to the USENIX code of conduct and diversity and inclusion guidelines.

Organizers

Udit Gupta, Cornell University
Alex Jones, Univ. of Pittsburgh and the National Science Foundation
George Porter, Univ. of California San Diego

Abstract submission site

The abstract registration website is now available.

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Contact / Questions

If you have questions or comments, please email us at akjonespitt@gmail.com.