Green computing Bahrain 2012 conference: Green Computing and new generation datacenters

1. Green & New Generation Datacentre
Green Computing Conference Bahrain 2012
Jorge Sebastiao

2. •
Roadmap
Trends
• Motivation
• Concepts
• Tracking the Heat
• Virtualize
• Liquid is Cool
• Green Energy
• Turn it Off
• Measure
• A new Kind of Box
• Waste Management
• Innovation
• Carbon footprints
• Green as a Best Practice

3. Trends

4. PUE Targets
Annual Average PUE Targets
2.200
2.000
1.800
1.600
1.400
1.200
1.000
2006 2008 2010 2012
PUE

5. Where the power goes
Electricity Lighting, etc.
Transformer/ 3%
UPS
10%
Air Movement
12%
IT Equipment
50%
Cooling
25%

6. Cloud Computing

7. Green DC elements - 1
• Has 2 external high voltage AC feeds

8. Green DC elements - 2
• connected to trans-formers (efficient transformers)
Transformers

9. Green DC elements - 3
• Efficient UPS (up to 94% efficiency)
Generator set
Switch Board
UPS

10. Green DC elements - 4
• Cooling technology (free air lower the PUE)
Cooling
infrastructure

11. Green DC elements - 5
• hot/cold ail containment (improve efficiency)
Hot/Cold ail
Containment

12. Green DC elements - 6
• PUE Values
2
1,95
1,95
1,60
1,60
1,50

13. Green DC elements - 7

14. Tracking the Heat

15. Velocity and
Pressure

16. Hot and Cold

17. Virtualize

18. Liquid is Cool & Efficient

19. Servers in Liquid

20. Green Energy

21. Solar Power

22. Wind Power

23. Workload Management

24. Energy Demand and Supply
• Sources
– Solar/wind: variable
– Electrical grid: backup
Solar power
Power
Load
Workload
Time

25. Delaying load within time bounds
Power
Nodes
J1 J2 J3
Delay jobs is OK (within time bounds)
Power
J1 J2 J3
Nodes
Time

26. Turn it off

27. Data management – turn it off
Server 1 Server 2 Server 3
Active 7 4
5 6 3
1 2 4 6
Running queue:
Non-required file JobA 4 6
Required file JobB 5
Decommission JobC 1
Server 4 Server 5
Down 2 4 3 6
3 8 7

28. Outside the box

29. Measure

30. Waste Management

31. IT waist
Recycle

32. Bloom Box Innovation

33. Innovation

34. Containers

35. Containers

36. Evaluate
Carbon
Footprint

37. CO2 Emissions

38. Calculate

39. Green Best Practice

40. Green Best Practices

41. jorge.sebastiao@gmail.com