First International Workshop on Green Computing
(GreenCom '07)

Held on September 17th, 2007, in Austin, Texas, in conjunction with the IEEE Cluster 2007 Conference

Workshop Info

Scope

Topics

Organizing Committee

Program Committee

Program Schedule

Archived: Call For Papers

Submission guidelines

Important Dates

Prerequisites for publication

Questions

News: The workshop concluded successfully. Check the schedule for links to presentations

Scope and content

Current trends in data center growth show a rapid increase in both computing and storage capacity. Moreover, technological trends increase both the operating frequency and the power density. All these factors combined yield an exponential increase in power needs of data centers—as evidenced by recent placement of mega data centers by companies near sources of cheap and abundant surplus power. However, the enormously increasing needs in power is clearly not sustainable and has already started clashing with the power limitations of many data centers, the increasing cost of power and the recent legislative efforts that press for greener data centers. Challenges that arise interest various computing disciplines, including high-performance computing, enterprise computing, autonomic computing, proactive methods and sustainable computing. This workshop aims to bring researchers and experts from both the industry and the academia with knowledge and innovative ideas to spark further cooperation amongst them.

Topics

Topics of this workshop include (but are not limited to):

  • Efficient Resource management for Cluster Computing
  • Thermal/Temperature-aware/efficient computing
  • Power/Energy-aware/efficient computing
  • Power/Thermal-efficient computing platforms
  • Cyber-physical control methodologies for efficient data center operation
  • IT impacts of green computing
  • Computing environment cooling control
  • Power distribution and efficient use within data center

Workshop Info

Organizing Committee

Co-chairs:

  • Sandeep K. S. Gupta, Arizona State University (USA)
  • Sanjay Rungta, Intel Corporation (USA)
  • Georgios Varsamopoulos, Arizona State University (USA)

Program Committee

  • Ionut D. Aron, IBM Corporation (USA)
  • Frank Bellosa, University of Karlsruhe (Germany)
  • Ricardo Bianchini, Rutgers University (USA)
  • Partha Dasgupta, Arizona State University (USA)
  • Jeffrey J. Evans, Purdue University (USA)
  • Christopher R. Gentle, Avaya Labs (Australia)
  • Warren A. Hunt Jr., University of Texas at Austin (USA)
  • Will Jones, US Naval Academy (USA)
  • Tom W. Keller, IBM Corporation (USA)
  • Pericles A. Mitkas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)
  • Partha Ranganathan, Hewlett-Packard Company (USA)
  • Aviral Shrivastava, Arizona State University (USA)
  • Dan Stanzione, Arizona State University (USA)
  • Pedro Trancoso, University of Cyprus (Cyprus)
  • Qian Wang, Pensylvania State University (USA)
  • Bill E. Weihl, Google Inc. (USA)

External Reviewers

  • Michael Jonas, Arizona State University (USA)
  • Kevin Lim, University of Michigan (USA)
  • Justin Moore, Google Inc. (USA)
  • Ravi Rao, Arizona State University (USA)
  • Qinghui Tang, Arizona State University (USA)
  • Sarma Vrudhula, Arizona State University (USA)

Program Schedule

8:00 Opening remarks and introductions
8:15 Invited Talk
Performance optimization of single and multi-core processors under thermal constraints,
Ravi Rao, Sarma Vrudhula and Chaitali Chkrabarti, Arizona State University
9:00 Paper presentations
Identifying Energy-Efficient Concurrency Levels Using Machine-Learning,
M. Curtis-Maury, K. Singh, S. A. McKee, F. Blagojevic, D. S. Nikolopoulos, B. R. de Supinski, M. Schulz
Cost-aware Scheduling for Heterogeneous Enterprise Machines (CASH`EM),
Jennifer Burge, Partha Ranganathan and Janet Wiener
10:00 Break
10:15 Work-in-progress session
Motivating Co-ordination of Power Management Solutions in Data Centers
Ramya Raghavendra (UCSB), Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Vanish Talwar, Zhikui Wang and Xiaoyun Zhu, HP Labs
On developing a fast, cost-effective and non-invasive method to derive data center thermal maps,
Michael Jonas, Georgios Varsamopoulos and Sandeep K. S. Gupta, Arizona State University
Measurement-based Power Profiling,
Tridib Mukherjee, Sandeep K. S. Gupta and Georgios Varsamopoulos, Arizona State University
Improving System Efficiency through Scheduling and Power Managements
Ryan E. Grant and Ahmad Afsahi, Queen's University
11:00 Panel session
Subject: Green Computing: Opportunities and Challenges
Panel: Ron Sass, Tommy Minyard, Tom Keller
Moderator: Daniel Stanzione
11:45 Closing Remarks
12:00 Lunch

List of attendees

  • Mohammad Hasan Abbasi, Georgia Tech
  • Ahmed Afsani, Queen's University
  • Amy Apon, University of Arkansas
  • Matthew Curtis-Maury, Virginia Tech
  • Sandeep Gupta, Arizona State University
  • Brian Haymore, University of Utah
  • Curt Hillegas, Princeton
  • Eugene Ho, Sun Microsystems
  • Tom Keller, IBM Austin Research Lab
  • Vijay Mann, IBM research India
  • Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Inst. Tech.
  • Tridib Mukherjee, Arizona State University
  • Sanjay Rungta, Intel
  • Ron Sass, UNC Charlotte
  • Dan Stanzione, Arizona State University
  • Vanish Talwar, HP Labs, Palo Alto
  • Henry Tufo, Univ. Corporation for Atmospheric Research
  • Georgios Vasamopoulos, Arizona State University
  • Janet Weiner, HP Labs
  • Reza Zamani, Queen's University

Archived Content

Call For Papers

Submission Guidelines

For workshop submissions please use our author login webpage and fill out the information and upload your paper. This will accept your paper and create an account. Camera-ready papers will be included in the Cluster 2007 Conference Proceedings; the formatting must adhere to the IEEE Xplore format. In particular, the manuscripts should follow the following format rules:

  • PDF files only
  • 8 pages maximum
  • Two-column
  • single-spaced
  • numbered pages
  • 10-point base font
  • IEEE Xplore format. (8.5×11-inch paper, margins in inches — top: 0.75, bottom: 1.0, sides: 0.625, and between columns: 0.25, main text: 10pt )
  • Concerning the final camera-ready version: Maximum of 2 extra pages at $100/page. Camera-ready means PDF file must comply with IEEE Xplore formatting and style for publication.
Attention: Due to time constraints, authors are urged to format their manuscript submission as close to a camera-ready format as possible.

Please submit your paper as a fully formatted PDF document, and make sure all special fonts except for the standard 14 fonts are included in the PDF file (the PDF standard fonts are Times–Roman, Times–Bold, Times–Italic, Times–BoldItalic, Helvetica, Helvetica–Bold, Helvetica–Oblique, Helvetica–BoldOblique, Courier, Courier–Bold, Courier–Oblique, Courier–BoldOblique, Symbol and ZapfDingbats). You can check the fonts used in a PDF file by opening it on Acrobat Reader and selecting Menu:File:Document Properties:Fonts.

Important Dates

Submission of final paper July23(NEW - final)
Notification of acceptance July27(NEW - final)
Camera-ready submissions August2(NEW - final)
Registration deadline August27

Prerequisites for the publication and presentation of your work

Your manuscript cannot be published without a completed IEEE copyright form, available from the IEEE Website as HTML, Word DOC or PDF. Please download the copyright form, print it out, fill it in completely, and mail or fax by July 30 to the workshop chair at:

Sandeep K. S. Gupta
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
School of Computing and Informatics
Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287
fax: (480) 965-2751

To assure proper publication and presentation of all submitted and selected works, we require that one of the authors register for the main conference prior to August 27 using the conference website. Please, bear in mind that there is no separate registration for the workshop; registered Cluster 2007 attendees participate at no extra cost.

Revisions/Questions

If you change authors or the title (relative to your earlier submission) please let the Publications Chair know. He is also the contact if you need a revision after the deadline.

Program Schedule

The workshop will last from 8am to 12pm, September 17th. Presentations will be of about 30 minutes long each (including time for questions). There is no separate registration for the workshop; registered Cluster 2007 attendees can participate at no extra cost.