SUSCOMP

The continuous pursuit of increasing performance in computing has resulted in the discovery of various methodologies for designing computers for various important application domains. However, However, such methods have largely neglected sustainability and in particular, their impact on the environment and energy resources of the planet. It has been shown that the embodied environmental cost of integrated-circuit (IC) manufacturing can often exceed its operational footprint. With the use of metals such as tantalum, tungsten, and gold, which are extracts of conflict minerals, in electronic equipment and the inevitable exhaustion of the planet's energy resources within the next few decades and the potentially existential threat of climate change impacted by CO 2 emissions, there is an urgent need to consider factors beyond operational-phase energy consumption of the computing infrastructure. The research community engaged in the design of next-generation computers need to be aware of the..