CSC is proposing Kajaani, Finland as a location for a new European datacenter due to its cost efficiency and environmental sustainability. Key reasons include very competitive electricity prices that are approximately 3 times lower than parts of Europe, access to green and renewable energy sources, ideal climate for free air cooling that results in a PUE of 1.03, and an existing ecosystem of expertise in areas like data management and high-performance computing. Implementing smart specialization through a distributed model across regions allows different parts of Europe to leverage their strengths and build excellence through synergies and economies of scale.
Proactive and reactive thermal optimization techniques to improve energy effi...GreenLSI Team, LSI, UPM
Marina Zapater presents her work at the PICATA Workshop. This workshop is intended to know the diverse groups of people recently incorporated thank to PICATA programme of Moncloa campus and who are researching and assessing the clusters.
The Program for International Talent Recruitment (PICATA) has focused on bringing in students and researchers from all over the world, in a determined effort towards internationalization and talent recruitment with different actions. The PICATA Programme offers sholarships for the development of PhD thesis marked by at least two practising doctors from the two associated Universities, the UCM and the UPM, with the possibility of participation by doctors from the other associated Institutions within the context of the Campus Moncloa in these areas: Global Change and New Energies, Materials for the Future, Agri-food and Health, Innovative Medicine, and Heritage.
Sklubi AlumniWeekend 23.10.2010:
Reijo Maihaniemi
Electricity Consumption: General
Electricity Savings Through DC Power Feed
DC Data Center Projects in the World
ICT Energy saving actions
CIGRE Belgium presentation on Actively Managing Distribution Connected Genera...Smarter Grid Solutions
Joint presentation with SP Energy Networks (SPEN) at CIGRE conference, Belgium, with the full title, "Actively Managing Distribution Connected Generation Feeding Into Distribution and Transmission Constraints". The presentation used SPEN's Accelerating Renewable Connections project as a case study and looked at the implementation of an Active Network Management scheme supplied by Smarter Grid Solutions.
The conference theme was "Innovation for secure and efficient transmission grids".
Building Blocks for Eco-efficient Cloud Computing for Higher Learning Institu...Editor IJCATR
Owning and managing a cloud-computing infrastructure, i.e. private data centers (DC), is a feasible way forward for an organization to ensure security of data when opting for cloud computing services. However, the cost associated with operating and managing a DC is a challenge because of the huge amount of power consumed and the carbon dioxide added to the environment. In particular, Higher Learning Institutions in Tanzania (HLIT) are among the institutions which need efficient computing infrastructure. This paper proposes eco-efficient cloud computing building blocks that ensure environment protection and optimal operational costs of a cloud computing framework that suffices HLIT computing needs. The proposed building blocks are in a form of power usage (renewable and nonrenewable); cloud deployment model and data center location; ambient climatic conditions and data center cooling; network coverage; quality of service and HLIT cloud software. The blocks are identified by considering HLIT computing requirements and challenges that exist in managing and operating cloud data centers. Moreover, this work identifies the challenges associated with optimization of resource usage in the proposed approach; and suggests related solutions as future work.
Proactive and reactive thermal optimization techniques to improve energy effi...GreenLSI Team, LSI, UPM
Marina Zapater presents her work at the PICATA Workshop. This workshop is intended to know the diverse groups of people recently incorporated thank to PICATA programme of Moncloa campus and who are researching and assessing the clusters.
The Program for International Talent Recruitment (PICATA) has focused on bringing in students and researchers from all over the world, in a determined effort towards internationalization and talent recruitment with different actions. The PICATA Programme offers sholarships for the development of PhD thesis marked by at least two practising doctors from the two associated Universities, the UCM and the UPM, with the possibility of participation by doctors from the other associated Institutions within the context of the Campus Moncloa in these areas: Global Change and New Energies, Materials for the Future, Agri-food and Health, Innovative Medicine, and Heritage.
Sklubi AlumniWeekend 23.10.2010:
Reijo Maihaniemi
Electricity Consumption: General
Electricity Savings Through DC Power Feed
DC Data Center Projects in the World
ICT Energy saving actions
CIGRE Belgium presentation on Actively Managing Distribution Connected Genera...Smarter Grid Solutions
Joint presentation with SP Energy Networks (SPEN) at CIGRE conference, Belgium, with the full title, "Actively Managing Distribution Connected Generation Feeding Into Distribution and Transmission Constraints". The presentation used SPEN's Accelerating Renewable Connections project as a case study and looked at the implementation of an Active Network Management scheme supplied by Smarter Grid Solutions.
The conference theme was "Innovation for secure and efficient transmission grids".
Building Blocks for Eco-efficient Cloud Computing for Higher Learning Institu...Editor IJCATR
Owning and managing a cloud-computing infrastructure, i.e. private data centers (DC), is a feasible way forward for an organization to ensure security of data when opting for cloud computing services. However, the cost associated with operating and managing a DC is a challenge because of the huge amount of power consumed and the carbon dioxide added to the environment. In particular, Higher Learning Institutions in Tanzania (HLIT) are among the institutions which need efficient computing infrastructure. This paper proposes eco-efficient cloud computing building blocks that ensure environment protection and optimal operational costs of a cloud computing framework that suffices HLIT computing needs. The proposed building blocks are in a form of power usage (renewable and nonrenewable); cloud deployment model and data center location; ambient climatic conditions and data center cooling; network coverage; quality of service and HLIT cloud software. The blocks are identified by considering HLIT computing requirements and challenges that exist in managing and operating cloud data centers. Moreover, this work identifies the challenges associated with optimization of resource usage in the proposed approach; and suggests related solutions as future work.
Opetus- ja kulttuuriministeriön (OKM) korkeakoulu- ja tiedepolitiikan osasto (KTPO) hankkii CSC:ltä palveluja koulutuksen, tieteen, kulttuurin ja hallinnon tarpeisiin. Korkeakoulujen tutkijoille ostetut palvelut ovat käyttäjilleen pääosin maksuttomia.
Kaikkien korkeakoulujen käytettävissä olevilla ja yhteentoimivilla ratkaisuilla tuetaan suomalaisen tutkimuksen toimintaedellytyksiä sekä korkeakoulujen rakenteellista kehittymistä.
Kun etsitään ratkaisuja ihmiskunnan suuriin haasteisiin, tieteellinen laskenta on avainasemassa. Tieteelliseen laskentaan investoimalla saadaan hyöty tutkimukselle hyvin laajalla alueella – laskentaresursseja tarvitaan lähes jokaisella tieteenalalla.
Huippututkimuksen toimintaedellytysten ja kilpailukyvyn varmistamiseksi laitteistoa on uusittava noin neljän vuoden välein. Tarvitaan siis 35 miljoonaa euroa uuden supertietokoneen hankintaan jaettuna vuosille 2017-2019, keskitettynä kansallisena investointina, jotta
a) Suomalainen tiede ja tutkimus säilyvät jatkossakin kansainvälisesti kilpailukykyisinä.
b) Suomalaiset tutkijat saavat tieteellisen laskennan palvelut käyttöönsä riippumatta siitä, ovatko työsuhteessa yliopistoon vai valtion tutkimuslaitokseen.
c) Parannetaan kustannustehokkuutta, karsitaan päällekkäisyyksiä ja edistetään tutkimuksen innovaatiopotentiaalia.
#siksisuper
Suomi on ihanteellinen datakeskusten sijaintipaikka.
Pelkät datakeskukset eivät kuitenkaan yksinään luo työpaikkoja tai innovaatioita - olennaista on datakeskusten ympärille rakentuva ekosysteemi.
Datamäärien kasvun avulla voidaan saavuttaa yhteiskunnallista hyötyä ja talouskasvua. Tarvitaan panostusta sovelluksiin (mm. dataintensiivinen laskenta, big data), koulutukseen ja näistä syntyvään yritystoimintaan.
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is an impartial and independent provider of R&D services. The presentation outlines our competences related to energy systems and gives examples of results accomplished in partnership with the industry. Presentation at Wasa Wind and Solar exhibition.
Universities as “Smart Cities” in a Globally Connected World - How Will They ...Larry Smarr
09.08.20
Invited Talk
Monash University ITS Strategic Planning Session
RE-INVENT to RE-POSITION – TRANSFORMED BY ICT
Title: Universities as “Smart Cities” in a Globally Connected World - How Will They be Transformed?
Melbourne, Australia
Pp ts the smart grid impact on the danish dsos’ business modelZheng Ma
The transformation progress of the smart grid challenges the market players’ business models. One of those market players is the Distribution System Operators (DSOs). This paper aims to elaborate how smart grid influences the DSOs’ business models with case studies of two Danish DSOs – EnergiFyn and TREFOR. The main findings indicate that the Danish smart grid transformation process influences the Danish DSOs’ business models via four smart grid related factors: (1) smart meters, (2) Distributed Energy Resources (DERs), (3) Bidirectional electricity flow, and (4) R&D. Therefore, the results show that the smart grid incrementally not revolutionary influences the Danish DSOs’ business models, and the smart grid transformation of the Danish electricity grid is slower than the agenda of the official Danish smart grid development strategy.
Hyper efficient data centres – key ingredient intelligence networkshop44Jisc
In this presentation Willie O'Connell will examine how Finland’s Centre for Science (CSC) has implemented a modular data centre solution, to support high performance compute for the Finnish University and Research Network (FUNET), while achieving an annualised power usage effectiveness (PUE) of less than 1.1. In addition he will outline how CSC has used data centre infrastructure management (DCIM) to micromanage the facilities ensuring reliability while maximising asset utilisation and return on investment.
What is Green IT? – Green IT is the practice of environmentally sustainable computing. It consists of a set of measures that ensure IT is delivered and used in a sustainable, energy efficient, environmentally friendly way resulting in a reduced carbon footprint.
Why is it so important? – With rapidly expanding usage of IT, the industry has a responsibility to source sustainably to ensure that growth can continue and to enable a low carbon economy. As well as that, businesses can benefit financially by adopting green IT initiatives.
ScottMadden has developed an approach for analyzing data center requirements and driving improvements in existing data center retrofits. Our approach takes into account the technological requirements, the physical attributes of a data center, and the requirements for a rigorous measurement and verification program needed to ensure improvements actually capture the energy efficiently gains and the resultant greenhouse gas reductions.
Our approach addresses the latest trends in data center management such as virtualization and cloud computing and provide a framework for developing metrics needed to drive changes in data center performance.
How to (Help to) Save Our Planet with Green CodingMindtrek
Track | Sustainable and Future-proof Tech
Janne Kalliola, Chief Growth Officer, Exove
Mindtrek Conference
3rd of October 2023.
Tampere, Finland
www.mindtrek.org
Opetus- ja kulttuuriministeriön (OKM) korkeakoulu- ja tiedepolitiikan osasto (KTPO) hankkii CSC:ltä palveluja koulutuksen, tieteen, kulttuurin ja hallinnon tarpeisiin. Korkeakoulujen tutkijoille ostetut palvelut ovat käyttäjilleen pääosin maksuttomia.
Kaikkien korkeakoulujen käytettävissä olevilla ja yhteentoimivilla ratkaisuilla tuetaan suomalaisen tutkimuksen toimintaedellytyksiä sekä korkeakoulujen rakenteellista kehittymistä.
Kun etsitään ratkaisuja ihmiskunnan suuriin haasteisiin, tieteellinen laskenta on avainasemassa. Tieteelliseen laskentaan investoimalla saadaan hyöty tutkimukselle hyvin laajalla alueella – laskentaresursseja tarvitaan lähes jokaisella tieteenalalla.
Huippututkimuksen toimintaedellytysten ja kilpailukyvyn varmistamiseksi laitteistoa on uusittava noin neljän vuoden välein. Tarvitaan siis 35 miljoonaa euroa uuden supertietokoneen hankintaan jaettuna vuosille 2017-2019, keskitettynä kansallisena investointina, jotta
a) Suomalainen tiede ja tutkimus säilyvät jatkossakin kansainvälisesti kilpailukykyisinä.
b) Suomalaiset tutkijat saavat tieteellisen laskennan palvelut käyttöönsä riippumatta siitä, ovatko työsuhteessa yliopistoon vai valtion tutkimuslaitokseen.
c) Parannetaan kustannustehokkuutta, karsitaan päällekkäisyyksiä ja edistetään tutkimuksen innovaatiopotentiaalia.
#siksisuper
Suomi on ihanteellinen datakeskusten sijaintipaikka.
Pelkät datakeskukset eivät kuitenkaan yksinään luo työpaikkoja tai innovaatioita - olennaista on datakeskusten ympärille rakentuva ekosysteemi.
Datamäärien kasvun avulla voidaan saavuttaa yhteiskunnallista hyötyä ja talouskasvua. Tarvitaan panostusta sovelluksiin (mm. dataintensiivinen laskenta, big data), koulutukseen ja näistä syntyvään yritystoimintaan.
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is an impartial and independent provider of R&D services. The presentation outlines our competences related to energy systems and gives examples of results accomplished in partnership with the industry. Presentation at Wasa Wind and Solar exhibition.
Universities as “Smart Cities” in a Globally Connected World - How Will They ...Larry Smarr
09.08.20
Invited Talk
Monash University ITS Strategic Planning Session
RE-INVENT to RE-POSITION – TRANSFORMED BY ICT
Title: Universities as “Smart Cities” in a Globally Connected World - How Will They be Transformed?
Melbourne, Australia
Pp ts the smart grid impact on the danish dsos’ business modelZheng Ma
The transformation progress of the smart grid challenges the market players’ business models. One of those market players is the Distribution System Operators (DSOs). This paper aims to elaborate how smart grid influences the DSOs’ business models with case studies of two Danish DSOs – EnergiFyn and TREFOR. The main findings indicate that the Danish smart grid transformation process influences the Danish DSOs’ business models via four smart grid related factors: (1) smart meters, (2) Distributed Energy Resources (DERs), (3) Bidirectional electricity flow, and (4) R&D. Therefore, the results show that the smart grid incrementally not revolutionary influences the Danish DSOs’ business models, and the smart grid transformation of the Danish electricity grid is slower than the agenda of the official Danish smart grid development strategy.
Hyper efficient data centres – key ingredient intelligence networkshop44Jisc
In this presentation Willie O'Connell will examine how Finland’s Centre for Science (CSC) has implemented a modular data centre solution, to support high performance compute for the Finnish University and Research Network (FUNET), while achieving an annualised power usage effectiveness (PUE) of less than 1.1. In addition he will outline how CSC has used data centre infrastructure management (DCIM) to micromanage the facilities ensuring reliability while maximising asset utilisation and return on investment.
What is Green IT? – Green IT is the practice of environmentally sustainable computing. It consists of a set of measures that ensure IT is delivered and used in a sustainable, energy efficient, environmentally friendly way resulting in a reduced carbon footprint.
Why is it so important? – With rapidly expanding usage of IT, the industry has a responsibility to source sustainably to ensure that growth can continue and to enable a low carbon economy. As well as that, businesses can benefit financially by adopting green IT initiatives.
ScottMadden has developed an approach for analyzing data center requirements and driving improvements in existing data center retrofits. Our approach takes into account the technological requirements, the physical attributes of a data center, and the requirements for a rigorous measurement and verification program needed to ensure improvements actually capture the energy efficiently gains and the resultant greenhouse gas reductions.
Our approach addresses the latest trends in data center management such as virtualization and cloud computing and provide a framework for developing metrics needed to drive changes in data center performance.
How to (Help to) Save Our Planet with Green CodingMindtrek
Track | Sustainable and Future-proof Tech
Janne Kalliola, Chief Growth Officer, Exove
Mindtrek Conference
3rd of October 2023.
Tampere, Finland
www.mindtrek.org
Overview of the FlexPlan project. Focus on EU regulatory analysis and TSO-DSO...Leonardo ENERGY
Webinar recording at https://youtu.be/4s2GGlu-ylc
The FlexPlan project (https://flexplan-project.eu/) aims at establishing a new grid planning methodology making use of storage and flexible loads as an alternative to the build-up of new grid elements. After introducing the project, the webinar will focus on pan-European grid planning regulation and present practices of TSOs and DSOs.
Intelligent buildings are buildings that through their physical design and IT installations are responsive, flexible and adaptive to changing needs from its users and the organizations that inhabit the building during its life time.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
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The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
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Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
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GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
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After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
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This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*
Building European competitiveness: Smart specialization for European datacenters
1. CSC – Finnish research, education and public administration ICT knowledge centre
Building European competitiveness:
Smart specialization for European
datacenters
Case Kajaani
10.4.20171
2. On a European scale
smart specialization
means locating
common, Pan-
European structures in
those regions of
Europe where it is
most optimal.
10.4.2017 CSC – Tieteen tietotekniikan keskus2
3. What is smart specialization?
The EU Member States have different characteristics:
oScope and volume of major industries
oAvailable skills and competencies of the workforce
oNatural and climatic conditions etc.
“We can build state-of-the art world-class eco-efficiency
systems around our mutual challenges, which gives opportunities
for several European players to bring in their strengths,
complement each other and find synergies.”
(Kimmo Koski,
CSC blog post)
4. Basic principles
1. Regional strengths
Optimal exploitation of strengths of different countries and regions
2. Focusing and optimizing
Enabling actors to focus efforts on their strengths
3. Cost-efficiency
Services should be produced where it is most cost-efficient
4. Synergies through ecosystems
Building excellence in regions, providing synergies and cost- efficiency
on the European level
5. Building skills
Competence building and skills development in multi-actor ecosystems
5. 10.4.2017 CSC – Tieteen tietotekniikan keskus5
Europe should
act now – or
let Amazon
or Google
take over?
6. Why does Europe need smart specialization?
• Research, science and innovation in connection with
the e-infrastructures and e-services are accelerators
in turning knowledge into growth. Data plays a key
role in this rapid development.
• Europe needs to compete in this global race,
leveraging growing volumes of data and turning
them into jobs and economic growth.
7. Added value with datacenter smart specialization
• Practical way forward in the datacenter area: Europe can build
competence by using existing infrastructures and skills.
• Cost-, energy- and eco-efficiency go hand in hand –
by locating datacenters optimally we can save significant amounts of
taxpayers’ money and be environmentally sustainable.
• Energy costs are the biggest run-time cost element (40–60%) that
depends primarily on energy prices, secondarily on nature and
climatic conditions, and thirdly on energy effective technologies.
• The energy prices vary greatly in the EU – the highest price might be
even three times as high as the lowest.
8. How to implement smart specialization
of datacenters on a European scale?
Clearly-defined selection criteria
and step-by-step selection will
help to select the optimal region
10. 1. Cost- and energy efficiency, energy reliability
• The energy price (EUR per kWh) should be as low as possible,
and long-term fixed energy pricing should be available
• The energy effectiveness level should be optimal
oThe effectiveness of energy consumption characterised by
the PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) should be less than 1.2
• The electricity reliability should be above 99.99%
• Diverse power supply should be possible
PUE =
Total Facility Power / IT
Equipment Power
PUE is the ratio of total
amount of energy used by
a computing infrastructure
facility to the energy
delivered to the computing
infrastructure. An
ideal PUE is 1.
11. 2. Environmental sustainability
• Green power options preferred, the possibility of using carbon
neutral energy
• Natural resources for cooling (air and water) should be
available on a regular basis
• To ensure this, average annual temperature should be below a
given constant (3℃)
• Near-zero carbon footprint during operational lifetime, the
Carbon Usage Effectiveness (CUE) should be close to zero
CUE =
Total CO2 emissions
caused by the Total
Data Center Power/
IT Equipment
Power
12. 3. Scalability, ecosystem thinking, expertise
• Modular expansion to the existing infrastructure should be
easy, flexible and cost-efficient
• There should be good possibilities for building interoperable
services (cloud, disciplinary layers etc.) on top of existing
structures
• There should be sufficient expertise available for services and
support in e.g. HPC, networks, data management and
analytics
13. 4. Operational conditions
• High connectivity should be secured, a fibre connectivity should
be located near
• 24/7 operation, connectivity and other services should be highly
reliable
• The location should be stable and safe for preserving and
processing large amounts of data
• ISO 27001 and ISO 14001 certificates are preferred
• A highly-skilled staff should be available for preparing, operating,
maintaining and further developing state-of-the art technology
and world-class eco-efficiency systems
• There should be high availability of high performance computing
services (a percentage constant should be defined)
15. CSC datacenter in Kajaani
• 3 000 m2 (option to 4 000 m2 additional datacenter space)
• Redundant green power scalability up to hundreds of MW,
based on customer need. Existing power capacity: 10 MW
(redundant)
• Local and competent partner network guarantees rapid
scalability and secure operations
• State-of-the-art datacenter technology (modularity of the
datacenter, easy expansion, free air cooling all year round)
delivering world-class eco-efficiency and zero carbon
footprint. Annual PUE 1,03 (2015)
• Also traditional water cooling datacenter facilities are
available for certain supercomputer type of services
• High-end availability on both power supply,
cooling and core network connectivity
16. Very competitive pricing – substantial savings for Europe
PRODUCT Electrical energy
CONSOM Band IC : 500 MWh < Consumption < 2 000 MWh
UNIT MWh
TAX All taxes and levies included
CURRENCY Euro
GEO/TIME 2014 2015
European Union (28 countries) 149,10 149,60
European Union (27 countries) 149,20 149,70
Denmark 260,60 258,90
Germany (until 1990 former territory of the FRG) 199,20 197,90
Ireland 153,20 160,10
France 109,00 120,80
Netherlands 107,40 110,60
Finland 89,50 87,70
United Kingdom 160,60 178,80
Norway 101,00 96,20
Source: electricity trader company Enegia (www.enegia.com)
In Finland tax reduction reduces the prices further by approx. 15€/MWh
In CSC Kajaani
datacenter the
energy price is
even lower –
70€/MWh in
2016!
17. World-class eco-efficiency
• Annual PUE 1,03* (2015) bringing
tangible energy cost savings to customers. (*free-air cooling)
• Cool climate: Kajaani has only a few days each year when the
temperature is over +25℃ (annual average temperature below +3℃).
No compressor based cooling is required to maintain the required
temperatures for the direct free air -cooled datacentre (CSC has both
direct free air and cool water-cooled datacentres in Kajaani).
• High capacity green power is provided within the Renforsin Ranta Business
Park with four links to the national grid. Green energy production in the
region, three local hydro power plants and a wood burning biomass
power station.The region is also investing heavily to the Wind farms
and Solar Energy.
• CSC uses 100% certificated hydro power (CUE close to zero) in all its
data center production and office environments.
18. Modularity, scalability, ecosystem implementation
• State-of-the-art datacenter technology: modularity of the
datacenter, easy expansion, free air cooling all year round
• Strong local datacenter ecosystem: local authorities,
university, funding organisations, industry – all onboard
• Scalability, also in power
• Room and possibilities for growth…
19. Competent staff and services available
• Skilled staff on-site:
oHPC operations since 1989, including a wide area of technologies,
environment upgrades and changes, scientific software and databases,
support & training, Research network (FUNET) managed by CSC
oData: storage, archival, long-term preservation of data, data analysis,Open
science
• CSC is a Prace AdvancedTraining Center (PATC)
• CSC is a trusted and reliable European actors and partner in various
European projects, e.g. currently coordinating EUDAT.
• Availability of additional services like local smart hands, reception
and un-packaging of HW, HW installations, data / storage services,
additional network services, remote monitoring, DCIM …
20. Reliability: small risk of power failures
• No power failures on site since year 1982.
• CSC has leveraged this capability in current production
without an investment in backup generators. UPS provided,
on-demand. For generators we have ready-made contact
points, so those can be added based on customer request.
• Scalability also in power.
21. Network management
• CSC as FUNET (the Finnish national research and education
network) operator => Competent network management,
quick problem solving, change management available
• Funet provides congestion-free connectivity through
100 Gbit/s national IP/MPLS backbone. 2x 100 Gbit/s
connections to NORDUnet, which connects Funet to Géant
and other research networks. Dedicated connections
available through Funet Light path service (lambda) and
National and international MPLS services (MDVPN)
22. Security & stability
• No risc of seismic / volcanic
activities, hurricane/tidal or other
foms of severe weather
• Finland is a country of political stability
and predictability
• CSC has expertise in service development
for storage of sensitive data
23. Sustainable datacenter service management
• CSC was founded in 1971, and it is a company governed and
owned by the state
• IT service management according to FitSM – a clear,
pragmatic, lightweight and achievable standard that allows
for effective IT service management (ITSM)
• CSC has continuity in service quality
• ISO27001 certificate for Kajaani datacenter since 2013 security,
datacenter management processes. Annual audits
• Datacenter Infra management (DCIM) tool in use and
customer specific access for their own services development
24. CSC offers IT services and
resources for research, education,
culture and administration. CSC is
a state-owned, non-profit
company administered by the
Ministry of Education and Culture.
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