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Special Theme: Towards Green ICT Number 79, October 2009 ERCIM NEWS European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics www.ercim.org Special theme: Towards Green ICT Also in this issue: Keynote: by Mazin Yousif Joint ERCIM Actions: 2009 Cor Baayen Award to Teemu Roos R&D and Technology Transfer: A 3D Event-Based Silicon Retina Stereo Sensor Editorial Information ERCIM News is the magazine of ERCIM. Published quarterly, it reports on joint actions of the ERCIM partners, and aims to reflect the contribution made by ERCIM to the European Community in Information Technology and Applied Mathematics. Through short articles and news items, it provides a forum for the exchange of information between the institutes and also with the wider scien- tific community. This issue has a circulation of 9,000 copies. The printed version of ERCIM News has a production cost of €8 per copy. Subscription is currently available free of charge. ERCIM News is published by ERCIM EEIG BP 93, F-06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France Tel: +33 4 9238 5010, E-mail: [email protected] Director: Jérôme Chailloux ISSN 0926-4981 Editorial Board: Central editor: Peter Kunz, ERCIM office ([email protected]) Local Editors: Austria: Erwin Schoitsch, ([email protected]) Belgium:Benoît Michel ([email protected]) Denmark: Jiri Srba ([email protected]) Czech Republic:Michal Haindl ([email protected]) France: Bernard Hidoine ([email protected]) Germany: Michael Krapp ([email protected]) Greece: Eleni Orphanoudakis ([email protected]) Hungary: Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú ([email protected]) Ireland: Ray Walsh ([email protected]) Italy: Carol Peters ([email protected]) Luxembourg: Patrik Hitzelberger ([email protected]) Norway: Truls Gjestland ([email protected]) Poland: Hung Son Nguyen ([email protected]) Portugal: Paulo Ferreira ([email protected]) Spain: Christophe Joubert ([email protected]) Sweden: Kersti Hedman ([email protected]) Switzerla nd: Harry Rudin ([email protected]) The Netherlands: Annette Kik ([email protected]) United Kingdom: Martin Prime ([email protected]) W3C: Marie-Claire Forgue ([email protected]) Contributions Contributions must be submitted to the local editor of your country Copyright Notice All authors, as identified in each article, retain copyright of their work Advertising For current advertising rates and conditions, see http://ercim-news.ercim.org/ or contact [email protected] ERCIM News online edition The online edition is published at http://ercim-news.ercim.org/ Subscription Subscribe to ERCIM News by: sending email to [email protected] or by filling out the form at the ERCIM News website: http://ercim-news.ercim.org/ Next issue: January 2010, Special theme: “Digital Preservation”. ERCIM NEWS 79 October 2009 Keynote Towards Green ICT After years of token recognition, green Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is beginning to gain sig- nificant traction. In fact, the association of ‘greenness’ with technology has become so fashionable that companies are now trying to ‘out-green’ each other. The main catalyst for this change is the realization that energy consumption is Mazin Yousif, PhD growing at a staggering rate, far beyond that for which we CEO, Avirtec Corporation and chair of the ERCIM Advisory Committee. have prepared. The corollary for ICT is that as an industry, it is responsible for significant environmental impact. For example, it is not uncommon for newly constructed data cen- 3. Improving the efficiency of ICT operations by, for exam- tres to consume more power than the cities they are located ple, using advanced cooling technology and power gener- in, forcing data centre deployment decisions to be driven by ation equipment; adopting best practices and known meth- the availability of either cheap electrical power or a natural ods for operating ICT deployments such as physical layout means of cooling (eg data centres are being built in Iceland to reduce internal/external heat; and optimizing physical for its low average ambient temperatures). Further, electrical placement of resources. bills to power ICT infrastructure are reaching billions of US 4. Encouraging conservation: here end-users and consumers dollars, and represent a big percentage of the operational of ICT must be motivated to conserve energy through expenses of ICT. schemes such as placing energy caps on consumption, devising systems of rewards/penalties, and possibly estab- The impact of ICT on the Earth’s climate and its dwindling lishing a trading market for energy or emission certifi- resources is another major concern. Recent studies found cates. For example, if a company exceeds its emission lim- that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from data centres alone its, it can buy unused certificates from companies that surpass emissions from many individual countries (note that have succeeded in cutting their emissions. It would also be this does not include CO2 emissions from other global ICT appropriate to hold IT accountable for the cost of operat- infrastructure). This is in addition to the fact that much ICT ing ICT infrastructure, as it encourages them to improve equipment contains toxic substances such as lead and mer- efficiency and turn off machines that are not in use. I cury, much of which enters the environment via the dumping would even recommend making productivity a function of of obsolete equipment. consumption: ie greater consumption must be associated with higher productivity. Given the above, serious collaboration between technolo- 5. Increasing social awareness through policies and commu- gists, developers, researchers, consumers and politicians is nications to explain the urgency of the issue and urge con- needed to achieve green and sustainable ICT. The ramifica- servation. tions of failing to act would be devastating to the environ- ment, and will lead to electricity bills eating up ever-larger The above efforts require that quantifiable benchmarks and chunks of ICT investment. metrics be developed to gauge their effectiveness and ensure progress towards established goals. As technologists, we have recognized that no single effort is effective enough to make a big dent in ICT energy consump- Another important effort is recycling programs along the tion, mainly due to its extensive and diverse footprint. A ‘reduce-recycle-reuse’ theme. Most computer manufacturers combined effort is required, including inter-disciplinary have established plans to take back their obsolete products research, industry-wide collaboration and extensive social for free and have devised ways to reduce their footprint on awareness. The whole fabric of society must be involved, not the environment. These manufacturers have also been lim- simply technologists and researchers. Examples of efforts iting the amounts of toxic substances like lead and mercury include, but are not limited to: in their products. 1. Improving the efficiency of ICT infrastructure through, for In summary, an energy consumption crisis is looming on the example, the use of energy-efficient resources and equip- horizon. Immediate action is demanded, involving inter-dis- ment, allocating the right set of resources to execute work- ciplinary research, industry-wide collaboration, policies and loads given their Service-Level Agreements and deploying social awareness. My message to ICT companies is “Learn technologies such as virtualization and autonomic power how to profit from consumers without harming the environ- optimizations. ment, as it is more rewarding.” And to the research commu- 2. Developing new technology, such as new materials, nity “Embark on more effective inter-disciplinary research lower-voltage equipment, increased integration (eg sys- developing green sustainable ICT technologies.” tem-on-a-chip) and power-aware ICT (both hardware and software). Mazin Yousif ERCIM NEWS 79 October 2009 3 JointContents ERCIM Actions 2 Editorial Information SPECIAL THEME KEYNOTE Towards Green ICT coordinated by Laurent Lefèvre, INRIA and University of 3 Towards Green ICT Lyon, France; and Jean-Marc Pierson, IRIT, Université Paul by Mazin Yousif Sabatier, Toulouse, France Introduction to the Special Theme 10 Towards Green ICT JOINT ERCIM ACTION by Laurent Lefèvre and Jean-Marc Pierson 6 Two New ERCIM Working Groups Formed General, Strategy, Rising Awareness 12 ICT and Energy: Some Methodological Issues 7 2009 Cor Baayen Award to Teemu Roos by Bernard Aebischer 8 EUROINDIA International Events 13 Key Challenges for Green Networking by Ashok Kar, Nick Ferguson and Florence Pesce by Ulrich Barth, Patty Wong, Didier Bourse 9 D4Science-II - An e-Infrastructure Ecosystem 15 Design for Energy Awareness for Science by Christina Öhman 16 Who Makes IT Professionals Environmentally Aware? by Andy Phippen 17 Combine Cost Optimization and Energy Efficiency Targets in your IT Strategy: The Going Green Impact Tool Supports You by Hannes Engelstaedter 18 The Norwegian Green IT Project Focuses on Green Data Centres and Video Conferencing by Benedicte Fasmer Waaler Electronics 20 MicroPower: Towards Low-Power Microprocessors with Reversible Computing by Holger Bock Axelsen, Robert Glück, Alexis De Vos and Michael Kirkedal Thomsen 21 Boosting Research in Electronics Enabling Efficient Energy Usage by Erich Prem Data Centres and Clusters 23 Using Waste Heat from Data Centres to Minimize Carbon Dioxide Emission by Gerhard Ingmar Meijer, Thomas Brunschwiler, Stefan Paredes, and Bruno Michel 24 Nautilus - A Testbed for Green Scientific Computing by Bartosz Borucki,
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