Breaking hardware and software silos for end-to-end sustainability
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Organised by: Hardware Standards Working Group
Project: Project Mycelium
Open to: GSF Member Organisations
Starts: 18 June 2025
Application deadline: 6 June 2025
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Maximum capacity of 20 participants
Steering Committee Members are guaranteed a seat
General Member seats are allocated by application
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Are you passionate about sustainable technology and part of a Green Software Foundation member organisation?
Project Mycelium, driven by the Green Software Foundation’s Hardware Standards Working Group (HSWG), focuses on establishing open standards to facilitate a more dynamic relationship between software and hardware.
Like the mycelium network in a forest, which connects plants and allows them to share resources we wish to identify the standardized signals to enable coordination across energy, telecoms, cooling, data centers, and software applications for more carbon-efficient scheduling and load balancing. This could be the next evolution of carbon-aware computing.
Join us in creating a future where end-to-end optimization leads to greater sustainability, lower emissions, and optimized efficiency.
*“Imagine a future where every layer of the technology stack communicates seamlessly. Cooling infrastructure responding dynamically to server loads, telecom networks adjusting traffic based on real-time demand signals, and power grids proactively managing energy distribution in sync with application workloads.
Project Mycelium aims to realize this vision by establishing standardized signals across the entire technology stack, enabling unparalleled collaboration and significant emissions reductions.”*
My Truong (Zutacore), Project Mycelium lead
Learn more about the concept in this recent episode of the Environment Variables podcast:
Hardware Standards Working Group
Participate in a virtual workshop focused on defining a framework that enables reliable, consistent signalling between workloads, data centres, and grid operators, ultimately creating a more efficient and adaptable energy ecosystem.
This will lead to a new specification and the formation of a dedicated project team, who will guide it through a consensus-driven process towards ISO certification. The final deliverable will be an ISO standard, connected with our existing standards efforts.