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WattsOnAI: Measuring, Analyzing, and Visualizing Energy and Carbon Footprint of AI Workloads

Created by
  • Haebom

Author

Hongzhen Huang, Kunming Zhang, Hanlong Liao, Kui Wu, Guoming Tang

Outline

WattsOnAI is a comprehensive software toolkit for measuring, analyzing, and visualizing the energy usage, power consumption, hardware performance, and carbon footprint of AI workloads. It seamlessly integrates with existing AI frameworks to provide standardized reports and exports granular time-series data to support benchmarking and reproducibility in a lightweight manner. It also enables deep correlation between hardware metrics and model performance, facilitating the identification of bottlenecks and performance improvements. By addressing the critical limitations of existing tools, WattsOnAI encourages the research community to consider the environmental impact of AI workloads alongside their raw performance, and to promote the transition to more sustainable “Green AI” practices. Source code is available at https://github.com/SusCom-Lab/WattsOnAI .

Takeaways, Limitations

Takeaways:
Provides a standardized method for measuring and analyzing the energy consumption and carbon emissions of AI workloads
Identify bottlenecks and support performance improvement through correlation analysis between hardware performance and model performance.
Providing key tools for “Green AI” research and development
Promoting sustainable AI development by considering the environmental impact of AI models
Limitations:
Limitations on the types and scope of AI frameworks currently supported (needs to be expanded in the future)
Limitations on the types and scope of measurable indicators (needs to be expanded in the future)
Further research is needed on compatibility and generalizability across diverse hardware environments.
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