This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, provided through the NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070), supports a five-year, $199,998 collaborative research initiative called "Carbon Connect" that aims to build the foundations for sustainable computing. The key objectives of this project are to: Create transparent and accurate carbon accounting methods, including standardized protocols for measuring and...
This $1,160,634 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will support the "Carbon Connect - An Ecosystem for Sustainable Computing" research initiative. The 5-year project, led by the President and Fellows of Harvard College, aims to develop new methods for accurately measuring and reporting the carbon footprint of computing hardware and infrastructure, with the goal of...
This $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) will enable Cornell University to execute the "Carbon Connect" research initiative. The 5-year project aims to develop transparent and accurate carbon accounting methods, innovative tools and strategies for reducing computing's carbon footprint by 45% within the next decade, and coordinate the design and management of...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Carnegie Mellon University a $340,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program. The "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION EXPEDITIONS IN COMPUTING: CARBON CONNECT -- AN ECOSYSTEM FOR SUSTAINABLE COMPUTING" project aims to redefine how the computing industry approaches environmental sustainability. The 5-year initiative will focus on three main objectives: 1) creating...
This $225,691 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports the "Carbon Connect - An Ecosystem for Sustainable Computing" research initiative at The Ohio State University. The 5-year project aims to develop innovative methods and tools to reduce the carbon footprint of information and communication technology by 45% within the next decade. Key objectives include creating transparent...
This $200,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports the "Carbon Connect" research initiative at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). The primary objectives are to: 1) develop transparent and accurate carbon accounting methods for the computing industry, 2) create innovative tools and strategies to reduce the carbon footprint of information and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $522,995 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to the University of Pittsburgh to develop novel lifespan-aware strategies for reducing carbon emissions from distributed computing infrastructures. The project aims to design a "lifetime management system" that incorporates principles of "safe computing" to maintain the longevity of computing systems while minimizing their...
This National Science Foundation award under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) provides $300,000 to Cornell University from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2025 to develop shared community infrastructure and tools for quantifying the carbon footprint of computing platforms across their entire lifecycles. The project aims to create models and simulators that can assess the environmental impact of hardware manufacturing, operational power/energy usage, and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $231,315 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the Trustees of Indiana University for the project "CAREER: GREEN FUNCTIONS AS A SERVICE: TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE AND EFFICIENT DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE." The 5-year project, starting on July 1, 2024, aims to develop a distributed computing infrastructure that is both efficient and sustainable, using carbon emissions as a...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $600,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside (UC Riverside). The grant, awarded on October 1, 2023, aims to develop novel techniques and design approaches to minimize the carbon footprint of data centers while increasing the utilization of renewable energy sources on the power grid. Key objectives include: Estimating fine-grained...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $1,213,677 to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania to conduct a 5-year research initiative called "Carbon Connect - An Ecosystem for Sustainable Computing." The project aims to create transparent carbon accounting methods, develop innovative tools and strategies to reduce computing's carbon footprint by 45% within 10 years, and coordinate the design and management of future computer systems to sustainably deliver performance for emerging applications like AI and virtual reality. The research will address both embodied carbon from hardware manufacturing/disposal and operational carbon from datacenters to advance environmental sustainability in the computing industry. This multi-institutional effort will train the next generation of innovators in computer science, engineering, environmental science, and energy policy to drive a transformation towards more responsible and sustainable computing.