Problem
Research questions and friction points this paper is trying to address.
sustainability
compute clusters
environmental cost
behaviour change
Scoring and Gamification to Encourage Sustainable Use of Compute Clusters
🤖 AI Summary
研究通过构建包含碳强度、资源利用率和隐含排放的可持续性评分系统，并将其应用于计算集群管理界面，以促进用户行为改变，实现更环保的计算使用。
📝 Abstract
The environmental cost of computing continues to grow, yet behaviour change remains limited. We present a composite sustainability score integrating average carbon intensity, resource utilisation, and embodied emissions into a single 0-100 metric designed for gamified feedback. Each component rewards a different dimension of sustainable behaviour: carbon-aware workload shifting, high resource utilisation, and selecting hardware that is commonly underutilised. This scoring system is built into an existing cluster management interface and underpins three dashboard conditions: raw metrics, composite score, and a gamified tree visualisation, which we are planning to evaluate in a 12-week within-subjects study with approximately 35 researchers. Furthermore, we open the discussion on the challenge of defining computational work `goodness' in the context of sustainability scores.
Innovation
Methods, ideas, or system contributions that make the work stand out.
Sustainability Score
Gamification
Compute Clusters
Carbon Intensity
Resource Utilization
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