EcoLife: Carbon-Aware Serverless Function Scheduling for Sustainable Computing

TL;DR

EcoLife is a pioneering carbon-aware serverless function scheduler that intelligently leverages multi-generation hardware and novel PSO-based extensions to optimize both performance and carbon footprint in sustainable computing.

Contribution

It introduces EcoLife, the first scheduler to co-optimize carbon footprint and performance in serverless environments using innovative PSO extensions.

Findings

Reduces carbon footprint while maintaining high performance

Effectively exploits multi-generation hardware for sustainability

Demonstrates significant improvements over existing schedulers

Abstract

This work introduces ECOLIFE, the first carbon-aware serverless function scheduler to co-optimize carbon footprint and performance. ECOLIFE builds on the key insight of intelligently exploiting multi-generation hardware to achieve high performance and lower carbon footprint. ECOLIFE designs multiple novel extensions to Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) in the context of serverless execution environment to achieve high performance while effectively reducing the carbon footprint.