This thrust benchmarks sustainability across high-impact application areas — particularly artificial intelligence — while studying the trade-offs between embodied and operational efficiency in domain-specific architectures. By profiling real workloads from AI training and inference, this thrust generates the use cases and design constraints that ground the center’s research.
Key Research Questions
- How do model architecture choices shift the balance between embodied and operational costs?
- When do domain-specific accelerators’ embodied costs outweigh their operational savings?
| Role | PI | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Lead | Emma Strubell | CMU |
| Collaborator | David Brooks | Harvard |
| Collaborator | Udit Gupta | Cornell |
| Collaborator | Benjamin Lee | Penn |