Events
Explore upcoming seminars, guest lectures, workshops, and other events hosted by the School of Computing Science.
Our events bring together students, researchers, industry partners, and the wider community to share ideas, showcase research, and foster collaboration.
This Week’s EventsAll Upcoming EventsPast EventsWebapp
This Week’s Events
There are no events scheduled for this week
Upcoming events
How Accurately Can the Energy Use of Spark Applications Be Estimated Based on Resource Utilisation?
Group: Systems Seminars
Speaker: Youssef Moawad, University of Glasgow
Date: 11 August, 2026
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Location: Room 422, Sir Alwyn Williams Building and Teams
Abstract: Distributed batch data processing applications are widely executed on cloud-based resources where restricted user access to node-level hardware energy counters hinders transparent sustainability accounting. Energy and carbon attribution methodologies therefore depend on power models and available resource utilisation traces, yet the accuracy of these estimates has to be validated while direct counters are available. In this work, we use Apache Spark running on Kubernetes as a case-study dataflow runtime and cluster resource manager to compare model-based energy estimates to Intel RAPL package and DRAM energy on an AWS bare-metal cloud and an on-premises cluster, comparing different CPU usage signals and memory coefficients. We show that external monitoring improves signed package-energy error relative to Spark task traces, reducing underestimation from -29.58% to -24.41% on AWS and from -24.00% to -16.22% on- premises.
Past events
To view past events, please click hereEvents Webapp
- Try out the events webapp (available to staff and students).