Making Testbeds for Carbon Aware Computing

Host Chris Adams is joined by special guest Philipp Wiesner, a research associate and PhD student at TU Berlin, to discuss how computing systems can better align energy consumption with clean energy availability. Contributing to Project Vessim, Philipp explains how researchers are now able to model different energy consumption scenarios, from solar and wind power integration to the complexities of modern grids despite the scarcity of available testing environments. They discuss federated learning and its role in carbon-aware designs, along with challenges in tracking real energy savings. Tune in to learn about the future of carbon-aware computing and the tools being developed to help software become more sustainable.

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• Philipp Wiesner: LinkedIn |GitHub | Portfolio

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• FedZero: Leveraging Renewable Excess Energy in Federated Learning | Proceedings of the 15th ACM International Conference on Future and Sustainable Energy Systems [11:56] 
• Vessim: A Testbed for Carbon-Aware Applications and Systems 
• Cucumber: Renewable-Aware Admission Control for Delay-Tolerant Cloud and Edge Workloads 

• 1st International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing |  (December 3) [41:26]
• Code Green: The Intersection of Software Engineering and Sustainability | (September 12 at 11:00 am AEST · Virtual) [44:41]
• Doing for Sustainability, What Open Source Did for Software | (September 16 at 11:20 CEST · Vienna) [45:02]
• Engineering a Greener Future for IT | (September 18 at 5:00 pm BST · London) [45:24]
• Collaborating On Digital Sustainability | (September 18 at 6:00 pm BST · Brighton) [45:33]
• Green IO London | (September 19th - 9:00-18:00 - London) [45:45]

• Environment Variables | Episode 9 w/ Philippe Wiesner [02:48]
• Vessim: A Testbed for Carbon-Aware Applications and Systems [04:42]