Architect Next Generation Data Centers
Rethink the current "one-size fits all" approach to data centers by developing self-adapting systems that respond to diverse workload demands, while decreasing system complexity and lowering costs, especially from power consumption.

• Cloud Computing Futures - Website
• Commodity Data Center Design - Presentation

Develop Data Center Monitoring Systems at Scale
Leverage "on-networked" sensing and control technologies to understand and optimize data center energy consumption, which is a complex function of the physical and cyber dynamics among computing, networking, and cooling.

• Project Genome: Wireless Sensor Network for Data Center Cooling - Publication
• Towards Discovering Data Center Genome Using Sensor Nets - Publication
• Energy Aware Consolidation for Cloud Computing - Publication

Reduce Disk Energy Consumption
Extend power management to storage sub-systems; one of the largest component consumers of energy in the data center.

• DiskEnergy: Saving Power in Data Centers - Publication
• Everest: Scaling down peak loads through I/O off-loading - Publication

Optimize Data Center Resource Management
Develop techniques to intelligently forecast server demands, power down unnecessary servers, modify load distribution for maximum efficiency amongst required servers, and consolidate applications in cloud computing environments to save energy without sacrificing user experiences.

• Microsoft Studies Big Sleep - News
• Energy-Aware Server Provisioning and Load Dispatching - Publication
• Energy Efficient Sensor Data Logging with Amnesic Flash Storage - Publication
• Energy Aware Consolidation for Cloud Computing - Publication

Advance Universal Parallel Computing
Accelerate developments in mainstream parallel computing in desktop and mobile computing through research centers founded in partnership with Intel.

• Universal Parallel Computing Research Centers - Webcast | Press Release
• Microsoft's Parallel Computing Platform: Applied Research in a Product Setting - Webcast
• Reinventing Computing - Presentation

Design PowerAware Developer Tools for Application Design
Develop automated tools that profile the energy usage of various resource components used by an application and guide energy optimized design.

• FineGrained Energy Profiling for Power Aware Application Design - Publication

Support External Energy Efficient Computing Research
Stimulate research that can dramatically increase the power efficiency of computing by providing grants for innovative research proposals.

• Energy Aware Consolidation for Cloud Computing - Press Release