Power and energy consumptions become key constraints of many computer systems from smartphones to data centers. While power and energy consumptions have gained a lot of attentions over the years, the proposed solutions are mainly confined within systems software and algorithms for computation. This workshop aims to provide a venue for discussion of a broader spectrum of approaches to green computing including programming and execution paradigm, and of extensions from computing to data processing.

The topics of interest for this workshop include:
  • Power and energy characteristics of programs
  • Energy-efficient programming
  • Power-aware compiling
  • Power-aware scheduling
  • Energy-efficient resource management
  • Energy-efficient big data processing and analytics
  • Energy-efficiency of storage systems
  • Power-aware cloud computing
  • Energy-efficient heterogeneous computing
  • Energy-efficient scalable computing
Paper Submission and Publication:

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to the workshop. Submissions should include an abstract, key words, the e-mail address of the corresponding author. All submitted papers should follow the conference submission instructions .

All papers should be submitted electronically (in PDF format) using the workshop submission system. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the workshop to present the work. Each submitted paper will be peer reviewed and the comments will be provided to the authors. The accepted papers will be published in the workshop  proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press and IEEE online library.

Important dates:
Papers due: September 8, 2014
Notification to authors: September 23, 2014
Camera-ready papers due: September 30, 2014
Workshop co-chairs:
Ziliang Zong, Texas State University
Rong Ge, Marquette University
Program Committee:
  • Michela Becchi, University of Missouri
  • Song Fu, University of North Texas
  • Rong Ge, Marquette University
  • Lars Koesterke, Texas Advanced Computing Center
  • Dong Li, Oakridge National Lab
  • Jian Li, IBM Research
  • Yu David Liu, SUNY Binghamton
  • Shuaiwen Song, Pacific Northwest National Lab
  • Ziliang Zong, Texas State University
Program:

This year's workshop was a success! Seven research papers (listed below) were presented on Nov. 3, 2014 between 8:30 am - 12:15 pm. (Slides Avaialble Now!)

8:30 am – 9:00 am:  Nagasushma Devarapalli and Silvia Figueira, “Practicing Sustainability in Organizations”. [Slides]

9:00 am– 9:30 am:  Jared Coplin and Martin Burtscher, “Power Characteristics of Irregular GPGPU Programs”. [Slides]

9:30 am –10:00 am Benjamin Klenk, Lena Oden and Holger Froening, “GPU-centric communication for improved efficiency”. [Slides]

10:00 am – 10:15 am: Coffee Break

10:15 am – 10:45 am: Naho Iimura, Norifumi Nishikawa, Miyuki Nakano and Masato Oguchi, “Evaluation of Data Placement Method in Database Run-Time Processing Considering Energy Saving and Application Performance”. [Slides]

10:45 am – 11:15 am: Xiaowei Xu, Lu Pu, Hanqing Zhou, Yu Hu, Aosen Wang and Wenyao Xu, “Energy Characterization and Optimization of Embedded Data Mining Algorithms: a Case Study of the DTW-kNN Framework”. [Slides]

11:15 am – 11:45 am. Benjamin Johnstone and Sonia Lopez Alarcon, “Satisfying Bandwidth Requirements of GPU Architectures through Adaptive Wavelength Division Multiplexing”. [Slides]

11:45 am – 12:15 pm. Krish K. R., M. Safdar Iqbal, M. Mustafa Rafique, “Green Sched: A Hadoop Workflow Scheduler for Microservers”. [Slides]