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OGF-EU: Using IT to reduce Carbon Emissions and Delivering the Potential of Energy Efficient Computing (2/4)
(90 mins)
Ignacio Llorante (UCM), Liam Newcombe (BCS/Romonet); Ian Osborne (Intellect); Bernhard Schott (Platform)
In the age of climate change the concept of Green IT is becoming a hot topic within the ICT industry and society as a whole, as we seek to minimise our energy consumption for economic, legal, business strategic reasons and social corporate image to our customers and maximise the benefits accruing to the end users of our services. This is also an area of interest to the Policy Maker with discussions emerging of potential regulation of Data Centres, and a new Code of Conduct aimed at data centre owners in the European Union. What are the standards implications from this? What are the metrics/tools to measure the energy efficiency (e.g. Power Usage Effectiveness – PUE, Data Centre Efficiency - DCE)? How might we better orchestrate the use of shared infrastructure to reflect energy policy decisions (e.g. what equipment is to be used for what task, where and at what time?) and the distribution of workloads based on the energy requirements and the established policies. This session is aimed at bringing more light to the subject, following an introduction workshop at OGF 23 in Barcelona and the launch of the new Code of Conduct in November.
This session is intended to be a call to action to the community to work in key areas of contribution allowing us to:- a) design more efficient infrastructures with minimal carbon impact; b) operate the infrastructures in line with energy policies which allow the user to orchestrate the most efficient use of their energy resources; c) identify areas where standards can be developed to incorporate the necessary functionality. We intend illustrating the case for change by reference to recent moves in the regulatory environment in Europe, notably the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres; as well as user case studies featuring advances in technologies which can assist in the efficient deployment of compute capability.
Agenda:
Session 2 of 4: The Data Centre, towards an energy efficient infrastructure
Session Chair: Ian Osborne (Intellect)
9:00 “Green-HPC Datacenter - Reduce Energy And Costs – Save The Planet And Your Budget!�
Bernhard Schott (Platform Computing)
Popular proposals on energy saving suggest purchase of new hardware: new servers, systems ( AC, UPS, PDUs, ….) or worse: costly refurbishing, even replacement of datacenters.
Energy saving becomes quite costly, impacting narrowing IT and infrastructure budgets severely.
In the uncertainty of the financial and economical crisis, these investments into reduction of CO2 footprint will simply not happen.
The “Code of Conduct on Datacenters� (CoC) implementation is thereby stalled – the money for massive upfront investment just to save energy is not there. Further, with lower oil price projections for 2010, mindset turns away from investing just to save energy.
The solution
Together with our customers and partners, Platform has prepared unique progress to the discussion and implementation of saving energy within existing environments. Low investment – high short term returns on implementing the CoC is possible.
We will show how to reduce energy consumption with existing systems, HW and data centers and verify these measures by an ROI calculation to prove the business case – yes, saving energy figures out!
The methods to reduce the energy consumption of existing HW presented in the talk are based on the two principles of 1- energy aware workload distribution and 2- HW control.
-> Energy profiling of applications and servers
-> Exploitation of built-in environmental metrics
-> Methods to reduce CO2: work with thermodynamic properties of a datacenter
-> Thermodynamic scheduling targets
-> Complementing policies: relocation of workload and HW-power-control
-> Efficiency metrics for workload distribution
Bernhard Schott is the EU-Research Program Manager at Platform Computing, Germany. Over the last 20 years, his focus has been on distributed systems: from nano-second signal distribution over real-time data distribution, to distributed Enterprise Service Architectures. Since 2000 he has been at Platform Computing specializing in HPC data center and Grid technologies, and has been in charge of liaison and collaboration with research and academia Europe wide.
Bernhard Schott is the Consortia and Project Leader of DGSI, a D-Grid project, Exploitation Manager for FP6 project QosCosGrid, heads the EBA partnership between Platform and EGEE, and is member of the OGF-EU-Industry Expert Group.
He received his degree in physics from University Frankfurt.
9:30 "VM Management for Green Data Centres with the OpenNebula Virtual Infrastructure Engine"
Ignacio M. Llorente (DIstributed Systems Architecture Research Group - Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
The aim of the talk is to present a first prototype of the functionality provided by the OpenNebula Virtual Infrastructure Engine to reduce energy demands through consolidation and dynamic management of virtual machines across a distributed infrastructure. OpenNebula provides a framework for the implementation of a reference model for the management of energy efficiency in virtualized distributed environments; monitoring energy attributes in the physical resources, orchestrating virtual machines, and controlling physical resources to meet energy requirements and policies.
Ignacio M. Llorente, Ph.D in Computer Science and Executive MBA, is a Full Professor in Computer Architecture and Technology, and the head of the Distributed Systems Architecture Group at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Major part of Dr. M. Llorente’s current research concerns with research and development of Grid, Cloud and virtualization technologies and their deployment to build IT infrastructures. In particular, he is co-leading research activities related to dynamic allocation and scheduling of jobs (Globus GridWay Metascheduler), dynamic management of virtual machines and on-demand resource provisioning using Cloud providers (OpenNebula Virtual Infrastructure Engine), and federation of grid infrastructures (Grid4Utility). He has published more than 150 scientific papers on the subjects of Grid and virtualization technology, parallel and distributed computing and scientific computing in the leading journals and proceedings books. He is involved in the EGEE, BEinGRID, and RESERVOIR European projects, and in the Globus Alliance.
10:00 “Engineering the Data Centre, beyond the EU Code of Conduct�
Liam Newcombe (BCS/Romonet)
10:30 Break
Location: Dante
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| | Slides (PDF): Data Centres beyond the EU CoC - Liam Newcombe - BCS |
| | Slides (PDF): Energy Optimization of Existing Datacenters - Bernhard Schott - Platform |
| | Slides (PDF): VM Management for GreenIT Data Centers - Ignacio Llorente - UCM |