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Tactic: Use Energy-Efficient Hardware

Tactic sort: Awesome Tactic
Type: Architectural Tactic
Category: green-ml-enabled-systems
Tags: deployment  hardware  machine-learning 

Title

Use Energy-Efficient Hardware

Description

The emissions of machine learning are related to used hardware. This is why using energy-efficient hardware to run machine models can reduce the power consumption of models. Energy-efficient hardware can include low-energy components. For example, the Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) developed by Google are seen as an energy-efficient alternative to CPUs and GPUs.

Participant

Software Designer

Related software artifact

Hardware

Context

Machine Learning

Software feature

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Tactic intent

Improve energy efficiency by using energy-efficient hardware

Target quality attribute

Energy Efficiency

Other related quality attributes

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Measured impact

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Source

Lynn H Kaack, Priya L Donti, Emma Strubell, George Kamiya, Felix Creutzig, and David Rolnick. 2022. Aligning Artificial Intelligence with Climate Change Mitigation. Nature Climate Change 12, 6 (2022), 518–527 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-022-01377-7)


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  • Contact person
  • Patricia Lago (VU Amsterdam)
  •  disc at vu.nl
  •  patricialago.nl

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