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OGF-EU: Using IT to reduce Carbon Emissions and Delivering the Potential of Energy Efficient Computing (4/4)
(90 mins)
Craig Lee (OGF), Ian Osborne (Intellect), David Wallom (OeRC)
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 4 of 4: The impact on Standards, towards a new OGF agenda
Session Chair: Craig Lee (OGF)
14:00 Recap from previous sessions
Ian Osborne (Intellect)
14:15
Next Steps - A discussion - Dave Wallom (OeRC)
A Green Working Group? - All participants
Green Standards - Participants from previous sessions
Actions - Ian Osborne (Intellect)
15:00 Close
Location: Dante
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