This $500,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports the development of DELPHI, an end-to-end framework for designing environmentally sustainable edge computing devices like wearables, cameras, and sensors. The project aims to make carbon and sustainability a first-order design parameter for future edge devices, integrating factors like energy, e-waste, and water usage from manufacturing...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program grant awarded $929,354 to Cornell University to develop the "DELPHI" framework - an end-to-end system that prioritizes environmental impact while designing sustainable edge computing devices like wearables, cameras, and sensors. Through this 4-year project, the researchers will: 1) quantify the environmental impact of edge device components and develop new carbon models, 2) create...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, CFDA #47.070, provides $600,000 to Duke University to develop a hardware/software co-design framework for sustainable computing systems. The framework aims to generate optimal hardware and algorithm designs that meet constraints of functionality, performance, sustainability, and other requirements. It will guide future sustainable hardware design and establish a holistic...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program ($250,000) supports research from January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2025. The grantee, Georgia Tech Research Corporation, will develop toolkits to support the creation of self-sustaining computing systems that harvest power from user interactions.
Three research thrusts will be undertaken. Researchers will study user needs for developing these systems through expert evaluations and...
This $100,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will fund research at the Rochester Institute of Technology towards developing a methodology for designing sustainable software systems. Over the one-year period from September 2022 to August 2023, the researchers will conduct an empirical study of software applications in sustainability-relevant...
This $200,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports research by the Regents of the University of Minnesota to develop sustainable design and manufacturing approaches for very large-scale integrated (VLSI) systems using heterogeneous integration (HI) technologies.
The key objectives are to: (A) build simulators to measure the carbon footprint of HI VLSI systems across the design,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $587,749 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIU) to improve the sustainability of edge data centers used for artificial intelligence (AI) computing. The project aims to mitigate the environmental impact and boost the efficiency of data processing in edge data centers through multi-layered optimizations, including harnessing renewable...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) award of $299,994 to Clemson University's Division of Research is focused on developing a framework for sustainable revitalization of computing systems to reduce greenhouse gas emissions during industry expansion. The project aims to establish robust methods for optimizing the migration and lifecycle management of smart computing devices in order to minimize their...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports the development of sustainable, batteryless edge computing technologies for the Internet of Things (IoT). The $259,488 award, effective October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2029, aims to advance "elastic intermittent computation" foundations through application, architecture, and circuit-level design to enable uninterrupted...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded the University of Notre Dame a $500,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) for the period of October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2027. The project, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DESC: TYPE II: REFRESH: REVISITING EXPANDING FPGA REAL-ESTATE FOR ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABILITY HETEROGENEOUS-SYSTEMS," aims to develop innovative approaches to minimize the environmental impact...
This $570,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports the development of DELPHI, an end-to-end framework that prioritizes environmental impact while considering user experience, performance, and efficiency when designing edge computing devices like wearables, phones, and sensors. The project aims to enable sustainable technological growth by allowing software and hardware designers to reduce the potential environmental harms of computing while still offering valuable computational services. Key outcomes include quantifying device environmental impact, developing tools for designing sustainable systems, and creating runtime sustainability managers to reduce device obsolescence. The framework will be demonstrated through short-lived ephemeral devices and lifelong companion health/wellness wearables. The award to Georgia Tech Research Corporation, a non-profit research organization and state institution of higher education, runs from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2027.