Green-IT

Purpose

This Community Outreach Seminar comes at a time when we should be respecting the issue of climate change not only in our daily lives, but in the technology we produce making those daily lives more convenent and/or efficient.

Who should attend?

All members of the community are welcome to join, including public, private and academic sectors. This will also be a very effective platform for attracting media and funding agencies.

This event will be targeted at all IT Data Centre operators whether in private or public sector from all sizes of organisations with an interest in managing their energy costs more actively. This extended to the infrastructure supply industry, e.g. Co-Location and Outsourcing organisations who are interested in understanding the potential for policy intervention in their business, as well as the practical steps of improving energy efficiency and reducing energy bills.

Expected Outcomes

Attract attention to the usefulness of distributed computing middleware as part of the process to increase utilisation and thereby reduce energy consumed in computing infrastructures. The use of distributed computing middleware also enables the extension of infrastructures using utility type models now being pursued by EGEE as well as commercial vendors.

Related Event

Grid Computing Now! Web Seminar

Introducing the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centre Operators

This GCN! Web seminar looked at the recently launched Code of Conduct for Data Centre Operators and at what the impact is likely to be.

Estimates vary as to exactly how much power is used by data centres, and how much carbon is emitted as a consequence, but the general consensus is that ICT based emissions are similar to that of the aviation industry: about two percent of the UK’s emission’s overall.

Western European electricity consumption is estimated to have been 56 TWh (terawatt hours) per year in 2007 and that figure is expected to increase to 104TWh per year by 2020. ICT equipment is likely to be responsible for a large part of that increase.

The Code of Conduct is an attempt to slow that growth. It aims to “inform and stimulate data centre managers to reduce energy consumption in a cost-effective manner without hampering the mission critical function of data centres”. It will do this by improving understanding of energy demands within the data centre, raising awareness, and recommending energy efficient best practices and targets.

Liam Newcombe of Romonet and secretary of the BCS Data Centre Specialist Group, and Anson Wu of the Market Transformation Programme, joined GCN Project Director Ian Osborne in the studio.

A Windows Media Centre version is available here: http://mediazone.brighttalk.com/comm/gridcomputingnow/2096389f7f-10737-335-10517

and a Flash Player version here: http://mediazone.brighttalk.com/comm/gridcomputingnow/10f8e0a9e5-10737-632-10516.

• Introduction to The EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres (265kb) - Ian Osborne, Grid Computing Now!
• The EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres (105kb) - Anson Wu, Market Transformation Programme & Liam Newcombe, BCS Data Centre Specialist Group