ICT accounts for 2-2.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions but can help reduce emissions from other sectors that account for 98% of emissions. The MANTICORE-II project aims to combine infrastructure as a service platforms to optimize routing and resource usage based on location, application needs, and network/energy properties with goals of reducing energy usage and following daily and seasonal changes from the sun and moon. HEAnet is investigating using renewable energy sources like tidal, wind, geothermal, and hydroelectric power at its points of presence.

1. HEAnet – Green IT - MANTICORE
Dublin, March 4th
, 2008
Victor Reijs, HEAnet
victor.reijs@heanet.ie

2. • ICT
– ICT uses around 2 to 2.5% GHG (and growing)
http://www.itu.int/osg/blog/2008/11/07/ITUMembersAgreeToReduceGHGEmissionsFromICTUse.aspx
– ICT can be used to monitor climate parameters
– ICT can stimulate a major indirect savings on the…
• Rest
– Rest uses around 98% GHG
– ICT can help reduce these GHG
– ITU Focus Group on ICTs and Climate Change (FG ICT&CC)
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/focusgroups/climate/
• But Mighty oaks from little acorns grow
– So lets look at managing the direct savings of ICT…
Greenhouse Gases

3. • User needs functionality
location/application/network/energy preferences
• Functionality needs resources
application servers, network related resources
(switches/routers/links), energy
• Energy resource has energy properties
like ISO14064, and more IMHO, like ‘nuclear’: YES/NO
• Location/application/network have their properties
part of the evaluation/optimisation
• Opportunity based ‘routing’
determines functionality (application) network
• Dynamics of above around several hours
Follow Sun and Moon

4. • Resources based networks
– MANTICORE-II project (IaaS) partners: Cisco, HEAnet, i2CAT,
Juniper, NORDUNET, RedIRIS, Uni. of Essex
– Combining MANTICORE (layer 3) with other IaaS instantiations like
ARGIA (layer 1) and ETHER (layer 2)
• Resources based applications:
– Looking for partners, like NDRC
• Measurement infrastructure
– Gather energy and other properties
– might be based on IaaS/GN2 perfSONAR
– Study of Environmental Impact in GN3 NA3.5
• Rules/policies
– eg ISO14064 and GN3 NA3.5
• Combining/stitching resources
– IaaS does not really do that
– Stitching Framework
• Renewable energy resources…
Some renewals

5. • HEAnet PoPs
– At clients (Universities or IoTs)
– At commercial co-location sites incl. ESB Telecoms
– Network and application servers centralized&virtualized
– Decide on using AC or DC power
– Small/large scale
– Remove myths and replace with knowledge
• Possible Sun/Moon/Earth source in Ireland
– Tidal (Moon)
– Wind (Sun)
– Geothermal (Earth)
– Hydro electric (Sun)
– Outside temperature (Sun)
• We are investigating renewable energy resources at HEAnet
or new PoPs
Renewable energy

6. • HEAnet PoPs
– At clients (Universities or IoTs)
– At commercial co-location sites incl. ESB Telecoms
– Network and application servers centralized&virtualized
– Decide on using AC or DC power
– Small/large scale
– Remove myths and replace with knowledge
• Possible Sun/Moon/Earth source in Ireland
– Tidal (Moon)
– Wind (Sun)
– Geothermal (Earth)
– Hydro electric (Sun)
– Outside temperature (Sun)
• We are investigating renewable energy resources at HEAnet
or new PoPs
Renewable energy