The Workshop on Sustainable Computer Systems aims to engage researchers and practitioners in a lively discussion on new ideas to improve the sustainability of computer systems. The research community has had a relentless focus on the implications of increased scale and raw performance of consumer devices, cloud systems and datacenters, as well as networks. We must address the negative aspects of computing’s proliferation—through innovative approaches to how we build, deploy, operate, and retire our creations. For example, software-driven hardware obsolescence that increases e-waste and embodied carbon suggests we must challenge computing’s endemic upgrade and throwaway practices.
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