Challenges in Distributed Energy Adaptive Computing Krishna Kant Intel Corporation

Fueled by burgeoning online services, energy consumption in information technology (IT) equipment is becoming a major concern from a variety of perspectives including the contin-uation of Moore’s Law for hardware design, enabling sophis-ticated mobile client functionality, mounting utility costs in data centers, and increasing CO2 emissions associated with IT manufacturing, distribution, usage and disposal. This ar-ticle discusses an approach where energy consumption and related issues of heat dissipation and sustainability are con-sidered as the primary concerns that drive the way compu-tation and communication is organized at both clients and servers. This article describes the challenges in supporting such a distributed energy adaptive computing paradigm. 1