Dall’Anese and Coskun Win an NSF Grant
Professor Emiliano Dall’Anese in collaboration with Professor Ayse Coskun won a $600k NSF award for project entitled “FlexDC: Flexible Artificial Intelligence Data Centers for Optimized Computing.” The project focuses on developing a framework to regulate data center power consumption within grid and carbon constraints, while simultaneously providing performance guarantees to users. They plan to achieve this through a combination of planning and runtime optimization policy design, developing a global cost metric, and a variety of methods to address workload properties and constraints (such as parallel applications, job preemption, and other necessary trade-offs). The project will culminate in a prototype process for data centers to perform “flexible computing” as part of emerging smart grid programs.