Sustainable Cloud Computing and AI

Part of climate-week-nyc-2024

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Cloud datacenters already consume ~2% of the world's electricity. With the exponential increase in compute and data, especially given the recent explosion of generative AI, the world's computing infrastructure has become a significant source of carbon emissions. In order to avoid an exponential rise in computing-related carbon emissions, we must rethink and retool cloud hardware, system software and web applications to become energy and carbon aware. The sustainable cloud computing and AI session at the NYC climate week will feature talks and a panel with researchers from industry and academia who are actively working on solving these hard and pressing problems.

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Location:">strong> Davis Auditorium (CEPSR), 4th Floor, Campus Level
Address: 530 W 120th St, New York, NY 10027

AGENDA (Tentative)

Doors will open by 1:45 PM. Please plan to arrive early to check in and find your seat.

2:00 PM: Welcome

2:10 PM: Opening Remarks

• Vishal Misra, Professor of Computer Science; and Vice Dean of Computing and Artificial Intelligence, Columbia Engineering
• Asaf Cidon, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia Engineering

2:20 PM: Presentation: Tamar Eilam, IBM Research (25 min)

• Talk: The Challenge of AI Sustainability

2:45 PM: Presentation: Mosharaf Chowdhury, University of Michigan (25 min)

• Talk: Toward Energy-Optimal AI Systems

3:10 PM: Presentation: Benjamin Lee, University of Pennsylvania (25 min)

• Talk: Towards Sustainable Artificial Intelligence and Datacenters

3:35 PM: Break (10 min)

3:45 PM: Panel on Sustainable AI (35 min panel, 10 min Q&A)

• Ramya Raghavendra, Meta Fundamental AI Research (FAIR)
• Udit Gupta, Cornell Tech
• Mosharaf Chowdhury, University of Michigan
• Benjamin Lee, University of Pennsylvania
• Moderator: Asaf Cidon

4:30 PM: Open Networking

5:00 PM: End