DFG funds new research group for developing sustainable data technologies

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved three research groups with the participation of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. These include a new research group from the Faculty of Engineering that is developing digital tools for sustainable computing systems.

Development of digital tools for sustainable computing systems

In our digital and connected society, the exponentially increasing need for computing capacity is creating enormous demands for energy. The use of AI systems is fueling this development. There is a clear urgency to limit the energy consumption of computing centers for information and communication technologies for IT that is socially acceptable.

The aim of the newly established research group FOR 5880 “Holistic Energy and Performance Modeling for Sustainable Computing (Mod4Comp)” is to use a holistic approach to investigate energy and performance in the interplay between hardware and software. The researchers hope to classify the elementary components of computer architecture and precisely predict the energy consumption of complex scientific simulations using mathematical models in order to encourage sustainable computing. The development tools that will be developed during the project should enable software and hardware to be developed that require considerably less energy with operating times that continue to be satisfactory. The focus lies on classic computer architectures such as those for automated driving, special architectures for AI systems and high-performance computers.

Researchers from FAU, TU Dresden and Forschungszentrum Jülich are bundling their expertise in Mod4Comp. Prof. Dr. Dietmar Fey, Chair of Computer Architecture, is speaker for FOR 5880.

Further information

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dietmar Fey
Chair of Computer Science 3 (Computer Architecture)

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