Treehouse is a cross-institutional research project to measure, optimize, and reduce the energy usage of datacenter software.

News

• Great write-up on our vision paper from The Next Platform!
• Check out our white paper on the Treehouse vision for energy-aware datacenter systems on arXiv now!

Publications

• Pratyush Patel, Zibo Gong, Syeda Rizvi, Esha Choukse, Pulkit Misra, Thomas Anderson, and Akshitha Sriraman. “Towards Improved Power Management in Cloud GPUs”. IEEE Computer Architecture Letters 2023.
• Jiechen Zhao, Katie Lim, Thomas Anderson, and Natalie Enright Jerger. “The Case of Unsustainable CPU Affinity”. HotCarbon 2023.
• Pratyush Patel, Theo Gregersen, and Thomas Anderson. “An Agile Pathway Towards Carbon-aware Clouds”. HotCarbon 2023.
• Zhenning Yang, Luoxi Meng, Jae-Won Chung, and Mosharaf Chowdhury. “Chasing Low-Carbon Electricity for Practical and Sustainable DNN Training”. ClimateAI Workshop 2023 (collocated with ICLR 2023).
• Jie You, Jae-Won Chung, and Mosharaf Chowdhury. “Zeus: Understanding and optimizing GPU energy consumption of DNN training”. NSDI 2023.
• Zhenyuan Ruan, Seo Jin Park, Marcos K. Aguilera, Adam Belay, and Malte Schwarzkopf. “Nu: Achieving Microsecond-Scale Resource Fungibility with Logical Processes”. NSDI 2023.
• Yifan Qiao, Chenxi Wang, Zhenyuan Ruan, Adam Belay, Qingda Lu, Yiying Zhang, Miryung Kim, and Guoqing Harry Xu. “Hermit: Low-Latency, High-Throughput, and Transparent Remote Memory via Feedback-Directed Asynchrony”. NSDI 2023.
• Inho Cho, Ahmed Saeed, Seo Jin Park, Mohammad Alizadeh, and Adam Belay. “Protego: Overload Control for Applications with Unpredictable Lock Contention”. NSDI 2023.
• Tom Anderson, Adam Belay, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Asaf Cidon, and Irene Zhang. “Treehouse: A Case for Carbon-Aware Datacenter Software”. HotCarbon 2022.

Members

• Tom Anderson (U. Washington)
• Adam Belay (MIT)
• Mosharaf Chowdhury (U. Michigan)
• Asaf Cidon (Columbia U.)
• Irene Zhang (MSR & U. Washington)