SCALE: Socially Conscious Architectures and Large-scale Ecosystems

Designing hyperscale systems
for people and planet.

SCALE builds and deploys computer systems across the whole stack, from processor architecture to the software serving billions of users.

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Recent Publications

ISCA

Designing Cloud Servers for Lower Carbon

Jaylen Wang, Daniel S. Berger, Fiodar Kazhamiaka, Celine Irvene, Chaojie Zhang, Esha Choukse, Kali Frost, Rodrigo Fonseca, Brijesh Warrier, Chetan Bansal, Jonathan Stern, Ricardo Bianchini, Akshitha Sriraman

International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2024

doi pdf slides code

@inproceedings{wang:isca24:designing,
  title={Designing Cloud Servers for Lower Carbon},
  author={Wang, Jaylen and Berger, Daniel S and Kazhamiaka, Fiodar and Irvene, Celine and Zhang, Chaojie and Choukse, Esha and Frost, Kali and Fonseca, Rodrigo and Warrier, Brijesh and Bansal, Chetan and Stern, Jonathan and Bianchini, Ricardo and Sriraman, Akshitha},
  booktitle={International Symposium on Computer Architecture},
  year={2024}
}

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News

June, ’26

We are thrilled that Akshitha Sriraman has received the 2026 IEEE CS TCCA Young Computer Architect Award, for contributions to the design and management of efficient and sustainable cloud datacenters! See the announcement.

Akshitha Sriraman holding the 2026 IEEE CS TCCA Young Computer Architect Award

April, ’26

Minya Rancic successfully defended his PhD thesis, Enabling Hardware and Software Acceleration at Hyperscale! Minya was the very first student to join the group, and this is the lab’s first doctorate. Congratulations, Dr. Rancic!

Minya Rancic with his thesis committee after his defense

April, ’26

Akshitha Sriraman has been named a recipient of the 2026 CRA Anita Borg Early Career Award! You can find the announcement here.

March, ’26

Deepanjali Mishra presented Speculative Load Micro-op Fusion, joint work with Tanvir Ahmed Khan, Gilles Pokam, Heiner Litz and Akshitha Sriraman, across the ASPLOS 2026 workshop programme.

Deepanjali Mishra presenting Speculative Load Micro-op Fusion at ASPLOS

March, ’26

Akshitha Sriraman was interviewed on how we can curb the energy demands of AI data centers, and on why servers should be retired later rather than sooner. You can read the piece here.

December, ’25

Jaylen Wang, Sara Mahdizadeh Shahri and Akshitha Sriraman are chairing the ASPLOS Wild and Crazy Ideas session. Please send us your WACI ideas!

November, ’25

Our HotEthics workshop proposal has been accepted! The lab is co-organising the second Workshop on Ethical Systems and Architecture Design (HotEthics), which puts the ethics of system design squarely on the architecture programme. Please submit your work!

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