Sherif Akoush2 June 2008
Renewable Energy and Data Centres
Quotes (Global Warming)
“Eleven of the last twelve years (1995-2006) rank among the twelve warmest years”
“... is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic GHG concentrations”
“...many natural systems are being affected by regional climate changes”
IPCC 4th Assessment Report, 2007
“‘four degree world’ spells potential disaster”
World Development Movement - Two degrees of separation, November 2007
Quotes (IT Power Consumption)
“ICT industry produces 2% of global CO2 emissions”“23% out of it from data centres”
Gartner - Gartner's Data Centre Summit 2007, 22-24 October, London
"About 10% of the UK's total energy consumption currently relates to power running through IT equipment“
Richard Barrington, head of Public Policy for Sun UK and Ireland and UK government advisor - ICT Forum Wales 2007
“Servers operate most of the time at between 10 and 50 percent of their maximum utilization levels”
Google - The Case for Energy-Proportional Computing, December 2007
“It is estimated that 40% to 70% of the operating costs for a data center are power and cooling”
Dell – VMWorld 2007
Quotes (IT Going Green)
“BT currently uses over 0.7% of the UK's electricity consumption”
“Over the next 9 years (2016), we plan to build wind farms that will yield 25% of BT's electricity needs.”
BT
“Our goal is to produce ONE GW of renewable energy capacity that is cheaper than coal.”
1.6 MW solar power to provide 30% of Google's peak electricity demand in Mountain View headquarter
Microsoft Unveils Wind Powered Virtual Earth 3D Data Lab in Colorado
Microsoft
What Percentage of Energy Actually Does Productive Work?
Quotes Summary
Green =
= Less Cost
Efficient Computi
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Outline
Wind Power
Mobile Data Centres
Cloud Computing
A Simulator
Wind Power
Renewable and CleanAvailable Widely
94.1 GW Worldwide2.3 GW UK72 TW Theoretical
potentialOnshore or OffshoreWind Turbine
100 ~110 m Rotor Diameter
80 ~ 100 m Hub Height1.5 ~ 3.6 MW
Wind Intermittency Problem
One Site – Northern Scotland
Northern Scotland Site
9.9 m/s Yearly Wind Speed Average*
1 1.5 MW GE Wind Turbine
825 KWh year 2006Not Constant285.1 KWh Standard
Deviation
* Met Office - MIDAS Land Surface Station Data
One Site – Northern Scotland
19 Sites – Across UK
19 Sites Geographically Disperse
Based on High Average Wind Speed
One 1.5 MW GE Wind Turbine
11.1 MWh Year 2006584.5 KWh Per SiteConstant?86.6 KWh Standard
Deviation
19 Sites – Across UK
Job Migration
Move Jobs Near PowerVirtualizationXenMotion Live Migration
100-150msVMWare VMotion Suspend/ResumeAssume 150 Wh per jobInitial Energy 12.8 MWh
Sustainability in the Year 2006
Excess in Power Generated 40% of Year 2006
Data Centres in a Box
Data Centre in Standard Shipping Containers
Very High-density Computing 250 Systems in 20 feet
Shipping Container Commercial Examples
IBM Scalable modular data center
Rackable ICE Cube™ Modular Data Center
Sun Modular Datacenter S20 (project Blackbox)
Dell Insight Verari Forest Container
Solution Connect Power, Chilled
Water, Networking Virtually Deployed Anywhere Scalable
Data Centres in a Box
Sun Modular Data Centers Pictures
Cloud Computing
Massive Network of “Cloud Servers“Virtualization to Maximize Computing Power Per
ServerNo Need to Install Software and Manually Setup
SystemsClicks to Add/Remove SystemsPay Only for What You UseAmazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) (infrastructure
provider)www.amazon.com/ec2Simple Storage Service (S3)SimpleDB
Google App Engine (framework provider)Web Applications - PythonAutomatic Scaling
Amazon Trial
Load Optimizer1
Requests
SLA Requirements (Max – Min)
-NB Requests-Response Time
S3 (storage service)
VM Disk image
Running VMApache+CGI
Running VMApache+CGI
Running VMApache+CGI
Running VMApache+CGI
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System Architecture
Optimizer(transition
cost)
Measurements (Power/Performance)
SLA (New?)Power ModelsWorkload Models
Actions:SuspendMigrateAdd/Remove
A Simulator
Energy SupplyWindSolarCoalTemperature?
Work Load DemandRequest/ResponseLong Lived Connections
InfrastructureNetwork
BandwidthEnd to End Latency
End to End Performance Measurements
Wind + Solar 5/1/2007 00:00 AM
Wind + Solar 5/1/2007 06:00 AM
Wind + Solar 5/1/2007 12:00 PM
Wind + Solar 5/1/2007 6:00 PM
Clouds 5/1/2007 6:00 PM
Questions
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