A publication on the Genesis project wins a Best Paper Award in the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing. It is the fruit of collaboration between the ADAC (MIC) and MAORE (INFO) teams.
The Genesis project is a scientific adventure initiated over ten years ago by the ADAC (MIC) team, in response to the challenge of digital sobriety. It is based on the use of small modular datacenters made up of distributed servers, powered by photovoltaic panel systems. The originality of these datacenters lies in the management of energy as a finite resource, in the same way as storage or computing capacity. In this architecture, energy is allocated and routed between modules according to processing needs, like data. This innovative datacenter concept required research at the interface of computing, embedded systems and power electronics, resulting in the design of software and hardware equipment integrating these capabilities.
One of Genesis’ main challenges is to optimize computation and energy to maximize the use of solar energy while reducing the carbon impact of processing. This challenge has recently been taken up by the ADAC team (MIC), in collaboration with the MAORE team (INFO), as part of an initiative funded by the Occitanie Region. The research led to the development of a hybrid optimization method with great potential, as shown by the results. This work, published in 2023 in the leading journal IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, has just been awarded the journal’s Best Paper Award 2023.
Title : Optimization of Data and Energy Migrations in Mini Data Centers for Carbon-Neutral Computing
Authors : Marcos De Melo da Silva, Abdoulaye Gamatié, Gilles Sassatelli, Michael Poss, Michel Robert
Affiliation : LIRMM, CNRS-University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
Contact : Abdoulaye Gamatié (abdoulaye.gamatie@lirmm.fr), Gilles Sassatelli (gilles.sassatelli@lirmm.fr)
DOI : 10.1109/TSUSC.2022.3197090
