Software Architecture for Sustainability

Environment Variables

Guest host Anne Currie speaks with Karthik Vaidhyanathan, Assistant Professor at IIIT Hyderabad, about integrating sustainability into AI development. They discuss how the world can balance digital growth with renewable energy goals and how AI systems can be designed to be energy-efficient rather than energy-intensive. Karthik shares insights from his research on sustainable AI and MLOps, including dynamically selecting and retraining models to cut energy use and costs without compromising performance. The conversation underscores the importance of dynamic system design and collaboration across academia, industry, and government to make sustainability a core principle in software engineering.

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Resources:

• Attention Is All You Need [06:34]
• Environment Variables Ep119 Backstage: The Green Software Movement Platform [13:16]
• SustAInd [33:01]
• HarmonE [36:00]
• SA4S @ SERC [36:33]

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