Data-driven research on the Earth's historical climate and the impact of energy production on modern climate change.
grantProject GreenLight
This project, developing an instrument called GreenLight, measures, monitors, and optimizes the energy consumption of large-scale scientific applications from many different areas.
mediaUC San Diego’s GreenLight Project To Improve Energy Efficiency Of Computing – Photonics Online
The information technology industry consumes as much energy and has roughly the same carbon “footprint” as the airline industry. Now scientists and engineers at the University of California, San Diego are building an instrument to test the energy efficiency of computing systems under real-world conditions — with the ultimate goal of getting computer designers and users in the scientific community to re-think the way they do their jobs.
mediaProject Aims To Improve Energy Efficiency Of Computing – ScienceDaily
The IT industry consumes as much energy and has roughly the same carbon “footprint” as the airline industry. Now scientists and engineers are building an instrument to test the energy efficiency of computing systems under real-world conditions — with the ultimate goal of getting computer designers and users in the scientific community to rethink the way they do their jobs.
publicationDigital Infrastructure In A Carbon-Constrained World
Larry Smarr, Tom DeFanti, Jerry Sheehan, Rod Tucker, Bill St Arnaud. Presented at Australian American West Coast Leadership Dialogue, January 15, 2009
The CENIC AI Resource Powers Diverse Disciplines
CENIC 2026: The Right Connection, Monterey, California. The archive date follows the official conference program; the source title slide retains its original year typo.
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presentationInternet & Climate Change: Cyberinfrastructure for a Carbon-Constrained World
Invited Talk at Salk Institute Retreat Scripps Seaside Forum, UC San Diego October 30, 2019
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presentationSustainable Computing and Telecom Can Contribute to Limiting Global Climatic Disruption
Invited Seminar AT&T Shannon Labs Florham Park, NJ
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The Coupled Climate-Energy System: Limiting Global Climatic Disruption by Revolutionary Change in the Global Energy System
Invited Seminar National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Boulder, CO
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The Disruptive Transition to Intelligent, Secure, Low Carbon, and Climate Adaptive Infrastructure
Smart Infrastructure Panel Talk American Australian Leadership Dialogue New York City, NY
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The Role of University Energy Efficient Cyberinfrastructure in Slowing Climate Change
Talk to MGT166 Class Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility Otterson Hall, Rady School of Management, UCSD La Jolla, CA
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The Growing Interdependence of the Internet and Climate Change
Distinguished Lecture Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT
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The Energy Efficient Cyberinfrastructure in Slowing Climate Change
Invited Speaker Community Alliance for Distributed Energy Resources Scripps Forum, UCSD La Jolla, CA
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The Role of University Energy Efficient Cyberinfrastructure in Slowing Climate Change
Energy Leadership Lecture The Institute for Energy Efficiency University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA
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A Brief History of Earth’s Climate Change
Invited Talk Youth Leadership Dialogue Australian American Leadership Dialogue Stanford University Palo Alto, CA
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Cyberinfrastructure in a Carbon-Constrained World
09.11.05 Invited Talk EDUCAUSE 2009 Title: Cyberinfrastructure in a Carbon-Constrained World Denver, CO
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The Growing Interdependence of the Internet and Climate Change
Invited Talk MITRE Innovation Speaker Series McLean, VA
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The Growing Interdependence of the Internet and Climate Change
Invited Talk Negotiating the Downturn: Emerging Stronger Australian Industry Group National Forum Parliament House Canberra, Australia
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Green Cyberinfrastructure on a Carbon-Constrained Planet
Invited Talk Institute for the Future Board Meeting Palo Alto, CA
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Project GreenLight: Optimizing Cyberinfrastructure for a Carbon Constrained World
Keynote Talk for the Joint 33rd IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference COMPSAC 2009 and the 9th Annual International Symposium on Applications and the Internet SAINT 2009 Seattle, WA
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Can a Greener Internet Help Us Moderate Climate Change?
High Definition Remote Presentation to the Monash Undergraduate Research Projects Abroad (MURPA) Program, located at Monash University, Australia La Jolla, CA
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Sustainability Requires Green Cyberinfrastructure
Invited Talk UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering Council of Advisors Sustainability Requires Green Cyberinfrastructure La Jolla, CA
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Can a Greener Internet Help Us Moderate Climate Change?
Calit2 / Institute for the Future Strategic Planning Retreat on Green IT La Jolla, CA
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Can a Greener Internet Help Us Moderate Climate Change?
Invited Talk Computational Research in Boston Seminar Series MIT Boston, MA
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Digital Infrastructure in a Carbon-Constrained World
Invited Talk SciPM 2009 Workshop on the Science of Power Management Arlington, VA
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Project GreenLight Measuring the Energy Cost of Applications, Algorithms, and Architectures
CENIC Awards Presentation Long Beach, CA
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Digital Infrastructure in a Carbon-Constrained World
Invited Presentation to the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP) National Academy of Sciences Irvine, CA
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Restructuring Campus CI — UCSD-A LambdaCampus Research CI and the Quest for Zero Carbon ICT
Invited Presentation to the Net@EDU Campus Cyberinfrastructure Working Group Tempe, AZ
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Digital Infrastructure in a Carbon Constrained World – AALD Lecture – Stanford University
Invited Presentation to the West Coast Leadership Dialogue Stanford University Palo Alto, CA
publicationGreening the Internet in a Carbon-Constrained World – Xconomy
This year marks a turning point in the debate on global climate change. The focus of the discussion is rapidly moving from a scientific analysis of how human activity affects climate change to a political process on how best to regulate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
publicationClimate Change and Higher Education – EDUCAUSE Review
B. St. Arnaud, L. Smarr, J. Sheehan, and T. DeFanti, EDUCAUSE Review, Volume 44, pp. 14-33 Published: Friday, October 30, 2009
publicationProject GreenLight: Optimizing Cyberinfrastructure For A Carbon-Constrained World – IEEE Computer
L. Smarr, IEEE Computer, volume 43, number 1, pp.22-27 (2010)
publicationThe Growing Interdependence Of The Internet And Climate Change – IEEE Internet Computing Magazine
Larry Smarr. The Growing Interdependence of the Internet and Climate Change. IEEE Internet Computing, January/February 2010, pp. 18–20.
publicationThe Transition To Intelligent, Secure, Low Carbon, And Climate Adaptive Infrastructure: Some Web Resources
Larry Smarr, Gregory McRae. Presented to the American-Australian Leadership Dialogue panel on “Smart Infrastructure,” held in New York City. July 16, 2010
mediaUC San Diego GreenLight project
Dr. Jürgen P. Schulze describes the immersive visualization application built for the Greenlight Project.