Presentation from JAOO 09 Australia on how to design software architectures to maxmise sustainable outcomes by limiting power and resource usage. Uses the Virtualisation Maturity Model (see Architecture Journal edition 18).
Sustainable Architecture is an effort to minimize the negative environmental impact of the buildings by using specific materials, energy and development space through strict moderation and efficiency
Sustainable architecture is architecture that seeks to minimize the negative environmental impact of buildings by efficiency and moderation in the use of materials, energy, and development space.
Sustainable architecture uses a conscious approach to energy and ecological conservation in the design of the built environment.
The idea of sustainability, or ecological design, is to ensure that our actions and decisions today do not inhibit the opportunities of future generations.
Sustainable Development in ArchitectureGargi Bhatele
The beginning of the presentation explains what is sustainable architecture, followed by case studies on examples of buildings built using sustainable architecture techniques. Buildings included in the presentation are, Oasia Hotel Singapore, ITC Maurya Hotel New Delhi, and Dixin Water Foundation Texas.
sustainable achitecture - introduction - design - need for it - elements - green roof , solar shingles , rain harvesting , cob houses - techniques - examples
Green architecture, or green design, is an approach to building that minimizes harmful effects on human health and the environment.
The "green" architect or designer attempts to safeguard air, water, and earth by choosing eco-friendly building materials and construction practices.
Sustainable Architecture is an effort to minimize the negative environmental impact of the buildings by using specific materials, energy and development space through strict moderation and efficiency
Sustainable architecture is architecture that seeks to minimize the negative environmental impact of buildings by efficiency and moderation in the use of materials, energy, and development space.
Sustainable architecture uses a conscious approach to energy and ecological conservation in the design of the built environment.
The idea of sustainability, or ecological design, is to ensure that our actions and decisions today do not inhibit the opportunities of future generations.
Sustainable Development in ArchitectureGargi Bhatele
The beginning of the presentation explains what is sustainable architecture, followed by case studies on examples of buildings built using sustainable architecture techniques. Buildings included in the presentation are, Oasia Hotel Singapore, ITC Maurya Hotel New Delhi, and Dixin Water Foundation Texas.
sustainable achitecture - introduction - design - need for it - elements - green roof , solar shingles , rain harvesting , cob houses - techniques - examples
Green architecture, or green design, is an approach to building that minimizes harmful effects on human health and the environment.
The "green" architect or designer attempts to safeguard air, water, and earth by choosing eco-friendly building materials and construction practices.
Although green wall is not a new concept and date back to hanging gardens of Babylonia in 600 BC, but flourished in current decades. In the age of sustainable development planners and architects look for solutions to green the buildings envelops and restore environmental conditions. A variety of different terminology in this area indicates the importance of issue: Hanging or vertical gardens, balcony gardens, vertical farms, containers or planter boxes greening, green roofs or rooftop gardens, green or eco buildings, green walls, wall planters, green envelops and green facades. They can be applied to increase bio diversity and ecological value, out door and indoor value, air quality and finally enhance social and physical well being of city dwellers. This presentation discusses the green facades as one of the vertical greening systems.
The term “Vernacular architecture” in general refers to the informal building of structures through traditional building methods without using the services of a professional architect. It is the most widespread form of building .
Vernacular architecture has been growing over time with continuities changes, transformations and adaptations to the different social and economic conditions of each period.
As for high rise buildings, these are generally above six floors or stories in height. Also, most high rise buildings are 100 meters in height. (These should not be confused with “skyscrapers,” which are generally much taller, as little or as much, as 200 meters in height.
A high-rise building is a tall building, as opposed to a low-rise building and is defined differently in terms of height depending on the jurisdiction. It is used as a residential, office building, or other functions including hotel, retail, or with multiple purposes combined.
This is a seminar made on sustainable architecture, containing
INTRODUCTION
NEED
METHODS
ELEMENTS
PRINCIPLES
DESIGN STRATEGY
SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS
RENEWABLE ENERGY GENERATION
TYPES
EXAMPLES
REFERENCES.
Although green wall is not a new concept and date back to hanging gardens of Babylonia in 600 BC, but flourished in current decades. In the age of sustainable development planners and architects look for solutions to green the buildings envelops and restore environmental conditions. A variety of different terminology in this area indicates the importance of issue: Hanging or vertical gardens, balcony gardens, vertical farms, containers or planter boxes greening, green roofs or rooftop gardens, green or eco buildings, green walls, wall planters, green envelops and green facades. They can be applied to increase bio diversity and ecological value, out door and indoor value, air quality and finally enhance social and physical well being of city dwellers. This presentation discusses the green facades as one of the vertical greening systems.
The term “Vernacular architecture” in general refers to the informal building of structures through traditional building methods without using the services of a professional architect. It is the most widespread form of building .
Vernacular architecture has been growing over time with continuities changes, transformations and adaptations to the different social and economic conditions of each period.
As for high rise buildings, these are generally above six floors or stories in height. Also, most high rise buildings are 100 meters in height. (These should not be confused with “skyscrapers,” which are generally much taller, as little or as much, as 200 meters in height.
A high-rise building is a tall building, as opposed to a low-rise building and is defined differently in terms of height depending on the jurisdiction. It is used as a residential, office building, or other functions including hotel, retail, or with multiple purposes combined.
This is a seminar made on sustainable architecture, containing
INTRODUCTION
NEED
METHODS
ELEMENTS
PRINCIPLES
DESIGN STRATEGY
SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS
RENEWABLE ENERGY GENERATION
TYPES
EXAMPLES
REFERENCES.
Sustainable Architecture and Green BuildingDarryl Duffe
A little history of energy efficiency and green building and some of my own work. The verbal part of the presentation talks about how to plan a green building project and look at the building as a system of parts with overlapping function. I also stress in regards to energy, water and material resources that you always do your best design to lower the demand side before you address the supply side. Do More With Less.
Practice- "Just Right Sizing".
This presentation looks at the Trends for Smart Buildings including social networks and mobility. It also provides a comparison of the markets in Europe and North America.
The era of Big Data is an era of opportunity. Companies are innovating and delivering massive value to customers, employees, and shareholders across a wide variety of industries. However, as with any great innovation, the path to success is not always a straight line, and companies struggle to plan and budget for success that doesn't always come on the first try. Traditional cost models push much of the planning and costs to the beginning of a project, limiting the kinds of efforts and risks organizations are willing to shoulder. In this webinar we compare alternative cost models and explain how NoSQL systems lower the costs and risks of delivering successful projects.
A Framework to Measure and Maximize Cloud ROIRightScale
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Adobe Advertising Cloud: The Reality of Cloud Bursting with OpenStackNicolas Brousse
After successfully moving a large workload from a Public Cloud to an OpenStack Private Cloud, the former TubeMogul Operations Engineering team tackled its next important step toward Cloud Bursting.
While experiencing hyper-growth on the Adobe Advertising Cloud, the team had to figure out a simple way to quickly provision new compute resources. Our latency critical workload need our core private resources while some workload can safely leverage public cloud. Cloud Bursting helped to ensure rapid support of the business and provide a more flexible capacity planning strategy. Being able to burst some workload back to the Public Cloud allowed the team to leverage the best of public and private cloud.
In this presentation, we will detail how the team dealt with the network complexity between clouds infrastructure, the cost effectiveness of cloud bursting, the impact on performance, and the hard reality of multi-cloud environments.
Disaster Recovery Best Practices and Customer Use Cases: CGS and HealthQuestAmazon Web Services
by Stephen Timms, EVP Global Sales, CloudEndure
By leveraging AWS, CloudEndure is able to offer AWS as a target infrastructure to attain affordable, enterprise-grade disaster recovery for physical, virtual, hybrid, and cloud-based workloads. In this session, CloudEndure will provide best practices all organizations should consider when enabling disaster recovery capabilities. We will provide recommendations on how to improve your disaster recovery plan and guide the audience through two customer use cases from CGS and Health Quest.
Disaster Recovery Best Practices and Customer Use Cases: CGS and Health Quest...Amazon Web Services
by Stephen Timms, EVP Global Sales, CloudEndure
By leveraging AWS, CloudEndure is able to offer AWS as a target infrastructure to attain affordable, enterprise-grade disaster recovery for physical, virtual, hybrid, and cloud-based workloads. In this session, CloudEndure will provide best practices all organizations should consider when enabling disaster recovery capabilities. We will provide recommendations on how to improve your disaster recovery plan and guide the audience through two customer use cases from CGS and Health Quest.
Introduction to The Cloud from Saint Louis Day of Dot Net session:
History, Composition, Advantages, Disadvantages, Cloud features available in the Microsoft Azure Platform.
Webinar | So You Think You Know the Cloud: Hosting Alternatives You May Not K...Peak Hosting
Link to webinar recording: http://bit.ly/1ywRoPs
In this webinar, Jeffrey Papen, Founder and CEO of Peak Hosting, will guide you through the different hosting options available, sharing the pros and cons of each so you can make an informed decision that works for your business.
Presentation explaining how all companies can benefit from moving their applications onto the Windows Azure platform. Freeing up their IT function to truly add value rather than merely keeping the lights on.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
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Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
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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Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
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My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
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3. Agenda
The case for Sustainable Architecture Design
Finding improvements through design
Finding improvements through development
Finding improvements through architecture
The virtualisation maturity model
Conclusion
4. Where does the carbon come from?
Carbon Emissions
Energy
Other
5. Who’s bad?
6
5
4
Airline Industry
3 IT Industry
2
IT Industry
1
Airline Industry
0
% of Carbon Growth
Emmissions
7. Facts
Power costs for each server are now greater than
the cost of the server – Google.
Running a computer is worth 4x the CO2 emissions
of building it, each year.
Building a computer is 10x less effective on CO2
emissions than white goods.
9. So where are we now?
Architecture is directly related to power
consumption
This stuff matters now and will matter more and
more
Applications have never been designed efficiently
until now
It isn’t that hard – we just haven’t thought about it
before
11. Finding improvements through design
Inefficient processes
Wasted travel:
• Reduce deliveries and flights
• Enable telecommuting
• An exponential effect...
Wasted paperwork
Unnecessary filing
Build the total cost of operations into the business
case
Design systems to remove inefficiencies
13. Support the OS and hardware
Don’t stop sleep mode.
Restore gracefully from sleep mode.
Don’t hog the network, disk or processor – allow for
graceful power-down
Even support wake-up on interrupt
Principle: Support power saving mode:
14. Data matters too
Disks need power
Online data needs disks
Principle: Store as little data as possible.
Principle: Include data archiving in application
design.
15. Code efficiency matters
CPU cycles = power
Use multi-threading!
Applications need to play together nicely
The Windows 7 example!
Principle: Design, develop, and test to maximize
the efficiency of code
17. Let’s be friends
The power realities of CPU usage and hardware
Step 1: Consolidate applications by function
Step 2: Consolidate applications by server
Step 3: Consolidate shared services
Enterprise Architecture does save money!
Component reuse does have a real purpose after
all.
18. Level 1 - Principles
Principle: Develop a plan to rationalize your
applications and platform portfolio first.
Principle: Consolidate applications together onto a
minimum number of servers.
19. The Case for Virtualisation
Virtualisation can save hardware on paper.
In real life it is more complicated...
Perform consolidation first!
Carefully design the virtual environment.
Move consolidated machines to virtual servers.
Group applications by:
• Usage
• Availability by time
• Availability by business need
20. Level 2: Principles
Principle: Consolidate before virtualisation.
Principle: Virtualise for efficiency, not for the sake
of it.
21. The Brighter Shade of Green: The Cloud
Clouds come in many flavours:
• Software as a Service (SaaS)
• Software + Services (S+S)
• Cloud Platforms
Clouds come in shades of green:
• Virtualised platforms (Amazon)
• Cloud Platforms (Azure and Google)
22. Making sure your Cloud has a Green Lining
Things to look for:
• Compute platforms are better than virtualised
• Match need to platform: architecture
• Select vendor by green credentials: data centre
location, power sources
The rest of the model still applies to Cloud
What isn’t Green:
• “Private Clouds”
• Local Hosting
23. Level 3: Principles
Principle: Use SaaS for commodity services
Principle: Re-use S+S Services where possible
Principle: Don’t virtualise new applications
Principle: Pragmatically move applications to the
Cloud
Principle: Choose cloud vendors by green
credentials
25. Q & (hopefully) A
Object Consulting operates a Sustainability Practices with
solutions including Sustainable Architecture Design
www.objectconsulting.com.au
Kevin Francis
kevin.francis@objectconsulting.com.au
http://msmvps.org/blogs/architecture