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WHAT HAPPENS WHEN DATADELUGE MEETS THE ENERGY

WALL?TOWARDS ENERGY-NEUTRAL IT

Dr Anne WigginsDeputy Director, EcoCloud

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Life without IT =UNIMAGINABLE

• Individuals

• Societies

• Governments

• Businesses of all sizes

• Research organisations

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HOW WE GOT HEREFrom computing-centric to data-centric – we now need interfacing, connectivity & constant access.

1970s 1980s 1990s Today +

Mainframes PC Era Communication Era Consumer Era

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IT - AT THE VERY CORE OFOUR LIVESInstant connectivity / Online shopping / Augmented reality / Streaming

movies /Social media / Games / Communication

Transcends cultures & socio-economic groups

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EVERYTHING CENTRES AROUND ACCESSING DATA! A computing paradigm shift has enabled ubiquitous connectivity

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Four decades of digital platform proliferation+

Exponential increase in density and decrease in cost

WHAT FUELED THIS GROWTH?

Intel 4004, 1971 = 92,000 ops /second Intel Nehalem, 2009 = 12,000,000,000 ops /secon d

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DATA DELUGE!!!

• Was only 150 Exabytes in 2005 1.8 Zettabytes in 2011 (Source: IDC)

• Supply-chain management, 10x increase in data in a year

• 50% of economic value in developed countries

• US aerial surveillance models 30x more data in 2011

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What do we do when the Data-Centric Universe meets the Energy Wall?

TWO INFLECTION POINTSHEADING TOWARDS COLLISIONData growing faster than technology

Emergence of a data-centric world in whichIT focuses on massive data•Companies spending $$$ to collect & analyse data

•Commerce entirely data driven•Scientific discovery via massive data analysis

•Personalised computing

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SERVER ENERGY & COSTSRISING EXPONENTIALLY

Data center energy(from Energy Star US report, 2007)

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Energy > CAPITAL COST?

Monthly Data Center Costs3 year server & 15 year infrastructure

amortizatization(blog.mvdirona.com, 2008)

• Servers becoming relatively cheaper • Power beginning to dominate cost

• Exponential costs if not mitigated

• Data centers already greater carbon

footprint than airline industry• Can consume up to 100 times more energy

than a standard office building

• Often, less than 15% of original sourceenergy is used for the IT equipment in adata center (US DOE Industrial Technologies Program,2009)

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MASSIVE DATA MEETS ENERGYWALL

• Densities will continue to grow foranother decade, but voltageshave levelled off...

• Data centers already have thecarbon footprint of the airlineindustry

• An exponential increase inenergy and costs if not mitigated

• We need to work towards energyneutral IT

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The first academic research center of its kind

A multi-disciplinary research center pioneeringcloud technologies that are robust, economical and

environmentally-friendly+ a European hub for cloud

technology transfer & expertise

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BRIDGING DATA WITHENERGY• EPFL

• International reputation forexcellence

• Foremost European sci-techinstitution

• Fosters trans-disciplinaryresearch collaboration and techtransfer within first-classinfrastructure

• EcoCloud• A team of 16 faculty and 50

researchers with strong trackrecord of major technologicaladvances & close, strategic tieswith industry, academia andgovernment

• $3M/year funding

• Datacenter Observatory (withETHZ/Lugano)

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OUR CURRENT RESEARCH- THREE MAIN THRUSTS• Cloud data - designing seamless, service-oriented query

processing techniques that exploit cloud platforms &infrastructure

• Cloud energy - innovating vertically-integrated computingand cooling technologies to manage and minimise energy

• Cloud intelligence - developing ways to transition criticalapplications from monolithic computers to large clusters ofcommunity nodes

Please go to ecocloud.ch for more detailed information

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TOWARDSENERGY-NEUTRAL IT

HOLISTIC INTEGRATION BEYOND SERVERS

SOFTWARE INFRASTRUCTURE

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INDUSTRY AFFILIATESPROGRAM

Annual meeting of Affiliate companies

Technical AdvisoryBoard membership

Access to EcoCloud /

EPFL conferencesand programs

Recruit from EcoCloud’

s highquality students

Access to EcoCloud research results

Joint R&D projects

Internships

Network with EcoCloud affiliates,faculty and researchers

Entrepreneurialstartups

Customizableexecutive education

Industrycollaboration

Technologytransfer

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INAUGURAL ANNUAL EVENT18 June 2012 An excit ing agenda of EcoCloud researchers and industry presentat ions

Celebrating first anniversaryShowcasing groundbreaking research

Highlighting emphasis on industry collaboration & technology transfer

www.ecocloud.ch/annual_events/event

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THANK YOU!For more information, please visit us atecocloud.ch