The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $231,315 Project Grant under its Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to the Trustees of Indiana University, doing business as Indiana University, with a start date of July 1, 2024 and a completion date of June 30, 2029.
The objective of this grant is to lay the scientific and technical foundations for a distributed computing infrastructure that is both efficient and sustainable, with a focus on reducing the carbon footprint of cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and internet of things applications. The key products and services to be delivered include: 1) developing "Green Functions as a Service", a new abstraction for decarbonizing latency-sensitive applications on the edge-cloud continuum; 2) extending serverless computing with new carbon-efficient capabilities; 3) creating distributed resource management algorithms using spatio-temporal carbon and workload modeling and optimization; and 4) integrating sustainability principles into both system design and pedagogical approaches to train undergraduate students in computer engineering, AI, and sustainability. The research outputs and software will be open-sourced, and the educational components will be integrated into the university's curriculum.
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