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OGF-EU: Using IT to reduce Carbon Emissions and Delivering the Potential of Energy Efficient Computing (3/4)
(90 mins)
Craig Lee (OGF), Liam Newcombe (BCS/Romonet), Ian Osborne (Intellect), Ignacio Llorente (UCM); Bernhard Schott (Platform); Sven van den Berghe (Fujitsu)
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 3 of 4: A System for Energy Management in IT
Session Chair: Craig Lee (OGF)
We would like to consider some form of reference model for end to end energy management. Components may include:
- Monitoring (e.g. a sensor network)/Measuring
- Decision support tools (bringing the right advice to the environment)
- Enactment tools (e.g. Virtualisation, migration, rack power up/down)
11:00 “An API for Carbon Reporting�
Sven van den Berghe (Fujitsu Labatories)
In the near future users will need to have knowledge of the carbon emissions of the services that they use. In a distributed system, where services are provided by many different sources, the carbon usage will need to be externally visible and reported consistently. In this talk we propose the definition of an API for reporting the carbon use of a service - Cloud based services in the first instance. Reports should be available for carbon used in the execution of a service; which can then be used for compliance to regulations that require carbon auditing, purchase of carbon credits etc. The API should also support the selection of services based on the amount of carbon that they use and allow the negotiation of SLAs that include carbon use terms. The Carbon API could be built as extension of other OGF activities, such as UR, RUS and GRAAP.
Sven van den Berghe is a Principal Researcher in the Distributed Services Group at Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe, having joined in 1987. He spent a number of years working within High Performance Computing in the fields of Meteorology, Oil Reservoir Engineering and Parallel Computers. During his time at FLE his interests have included Grid Computing where he made major contributions to UNICORE, in architecture and protocol development as well as being responsible for the development of the server-side components of the early versions of the UNICORE software. His current research interests include the dynamic management of data centres for energy efficiency.
11:30 “Introduction: Towards a reference model for energy management�
Craig Lee (OGF)
11:45 Panel Discussion
Moderator: Ian Osborne
Participants: Liam Newcombre, Craig Lee, Laurent Lefevre, Ignacio Llorente, Bernhard Schott, Sven van den Berghe
A panel session will immediately follow with previous session speakers, providing an interactive venue for further discussion.
12:15 Summary
12:30 Break
Location: Dante
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| | Slides (PDF): Clouds of CO2, An API for CO2 Reporting in Cloud Services - Sven van den Berghe - Fujitsu |
| | Slides: The Larger Context for Green IT Systems - Craig Lee - OGF |