Program Goals

The goal of the Green Data Centers Expedition is to provide technologies, algorithms and applications that will enable Green Adaptable Computing (i.e., using resources in an energy efficient and environmentally responsible manner) in a data center of the future, fast tracking two radically innovative architectures: “data center on a chip” and fully virtualized (“disaggregated”) data centers. The research challenges cut across individual domains of architecture, operating systems, application optimization, power and thermal management.

This Expedition, which includes experienced researchers from the University of Southern California, Princeton, the University of California-San Diego, Rutgers, Rice, and the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, will address the critical strategic challenges posed by green computing in data centers in a broad-based effort to drive fundamental shifts in the approach to realize data centers of the future that are significantly more energy efficient than current bestcase projections (e.g., by EPA or industry).