rob johnson and geoff constable, information services, aberystwyth university [email protected]...
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Rob Johnson and Geoff Constable, Information Services, Aberystwyth University
[email protected] [email protected]
http://paws.aber.ac.uk
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PAWS - Powerdown And Wake System
• Motivation
• Background and history
• Greening ICT Project Funding
• How it works
• Rival products
• Future
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Motivation
• Need for public sector bodies to be more efficient and save costs
• Deployment in student workstations achieves both without downgrade to service
• Pressures on Universities to be more green
• Win/win money and CO2 saved
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What is PAWS?
• Desktop power management with auto-sleep and wake capabilities
• Prototype deployed live in AU student workstations
• 650 Desktop PC’s were on 24/7
• Now only awake while in use
• Awake 110 watts; asleep 1 watt
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Cost savings…
• 1 computer = 2.5 KW/h units of electricity per day…• Without power management:
- 4375 units of electricity per day - £127,750 per year!
• The average utilisation:- public service computer = 20% - staff computer = 23%...
• With PAWS power management in place:
A total potential saving of £100,000 per year for 1750 computers at just Aberystwyth University!
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Live statistics can be viewed and displayed…
These live statistics provided at http://power.aber.ac.uk/paws
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JISC Greening ICT Funding of PAWS Phase 2
• Received a £50K grant• Two main goals:
1. Staff environment2. Portability to other Institutions
• Funding is until December 2011.• Open source community• Chance to work with other organisations in delivering
the solution where their IT infrastructure will be different
• Swansea University and Trinity St David Universities
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User Interface
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Administrator Interface
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Main Features of PAWS?
• Server Controlled
• End user has the power!
• Savings statistics are auto-generated
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Sleep Modes
• Forced/scheduled sleep
• Sleep when logged out
• Idle sleep
• Warned sleep
• Scheduled/remote wake-up
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Wake-on-LAN
• Technology to remotely wake up computers
• Means the computer can be put to sleep…
• …then woken up remotely
• User has control from Client Manager GUI
• Can wake computers for out-of-hours maintenance
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Extras that the PAWS PSV Client provides…
• Monitors and logs computer and energy use
• Useful for auditing, planning and logistics
• Automatic logout – provides user security
• Abandoned memory stick alert!
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Pros
• Financial - £100k savings per 1750 computers p/a
• Environmental - 700 tonnes of CO2 per 1750 PCs
p/a
• Free – open source under Apache GPL
• Can be developed further, or tuned to local
environment
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Cons
• Client Agent must be installed on host PC
• Easier with new PCs and standard build
• With legacy PCs WoL must be configured (working
on scripts to automise installation)
• Maintenance, Support
• Not out-of-the-box (yet)
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Alternatives
• 1E Nightwatchman approx £10/PC p/a
• Powerman – cheaper, but…
• Group Policies
• Free utilities – lack central provision
• User settings
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Progress
• Interface development
• Agent development• Beta test rollout completed to I.S. Development
Team
• Beta test now fully functioning
• Moved to 64-bit server
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Next steps
• User guides and help pages
• Roll-out to I.S. and Estates Departments
• Evaluation of roll-out and user feedback
• Generic development
• Implementation in Swansea/TSD
• Publication of Open Source Code
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Goals
• Useful resource for the educational and public sector
• Adoption by all Welsh universities would save £1million p/a in bills…
• … and 7,000 tonnes CO2 p/a• Adoption by organisations and users• Community development and support• Possible sustainability based on support model
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Rob Johnson and Geoff Constable, Information Services
[email protected] [email protected]
http://paws.aber.ac.uk
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Rob Johnson and Geoff Constable, Information Services, Aberystwyth University
[email protected] [email protected]
http://paws.aber.ac.uk