[CAnet - news] Digital Infrastructure in a Carbon Constrained World
"Bill St. Arnaud" <[email protected]> Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:27:43 -0500
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This is a multipart message in MIME format. --===============1237148650== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_00E6_01C97A52.DAD26BE0" Content-Language: en-us This is a multipart message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00E6_01C97A52.DAD26BE0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit For more information on this item please visit my blog at http://green-broadband.blogspot.com/ or http://billstarnaud.blogspot.com ------------------------------------------- [Excellent presentation and paper by Larry Smarr given at a recent Australia-USA leadership event. Some excerpts from the paper below - BSA] http://www.calit2.net/newsroom/presentations/lsmarr/2008/ppt/AALD_ICT_and_Cl imate_011509.ppt Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) presents a uniquely double-edge sword regarding climate change-simultaneously requiring substantial efforts to slow down the growth of its own climate impact, while increasing the use of ICT in other sectors to greatly lower their impact. This white paper provides an overview of these challenges and opportunities, provides some examples of on-going research, and lays out an agenda for American, Australian, and Canadian collaboration. Proposed Australian, American, Canadian Green ICT Testbed UCSD and UCI are among the Greenest U.S. campuses. UCSD has undertaken a large number of initiatives to move it rapidly toward a carbon neutral campus[i]. UCI recently won the Best Overall category award in the annual Flex Your Power program[ii], California's statewide energy efficiency campaign. Among the several hundred applicants, UCI was among just five winners of this level of recognition. This means that Calit2 has a strong foundation on its two home campuses to undertake a wide range of Green initiatives. Since a key thematic element of Calit2 projects is international engagements, we sought out both Canada and Australia to be partners in establishing an international Green IT testbed. As a first step, on October 27, 2008 a MoU was signed between UC San Diego, University of British Columbia, and Prompt Inc.[iii] during the third Summit of the Canada-California Strategic Innovation Partnership in Montreal, Canada. In one of the first efforts of its kind, these universities in Canada and California are pledging to work together to reduce GHG emissions on their campuses while developing a 'green cyberinfrastructure' - information technology that improves energy efficiency and reduces the impact of emissions on climate change. In the near term, the institutions agreed to develop methods to share GHG emission data in connection with International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standards for information computer and telecommunications equipment (ISO 14062), as well as baseline emission data for cyberinfrastructure and networks (ISO 14064). These protocols will become much more widely used as those reducing ICT GHG emissions wish to obtain energy credits in "cap and trade" systems. The Calit2 GreenLight data center will be connected to Canadian end users over the CENIC[iv]/Pacific Wave[v]/CANARIE[vi] dedicated optical fiber networks. CANARIE in Canada is studying establishing several research data centers near hydro, wind, and solar powered energy sources, so that a variety of Green Cloud alternatives can be experimented with. Meanwhile, efforts are underway at Calit2 to use DC fuel cell technologies to experiment with feeding modular data centers locally with zero carbon emission energy sources. With Australia, Calit2 will build on its now extensive relations[vii] with Australian universities, CSIRO, and AARNet to extend in 2009 the UCSD/Canadian Green IT testbed to sites in Australia. Approximately half of the energy consumed by the Internet goes into the core network routers in the core nodes. Therefore, large improvements in network energy efficiency can be obtained if each packet travelling through the Internet passes through as few routers as possible. The primary method to minimize router hops is to employ optical bypass, by which traffic is groomed into wavelengths and/or wavebands which can be diverted around certain routers, avoiding the need for full electronic processing and every router. CUBIN proposes to study this using the dedicated optical infrastructure made available by the AARNet/CENIC testbed. ------------------------------------- To subscribe or unsubscribe send e-mail to [email protected] These news items and comments are mine alone and do not necessarily reflect those of the CANARIE board or management. ------ [email protected] [email protected] http://billstarnaud.blogspot.com/ _____ [i] www.gogreentube.com/watch.php?v=NDc4OTQ1 [ii] www.today.uci.edu/news/release_detail.asp?key=1859 UCI's progressive energy and water efficiency programs were highlighted for reducing campus electrical demand by up to 15,000 kW and saving nearly four million gallons of water annually. [iii] Prompt, Inc. 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Some excerpts from the paper = below – BSA]<o:p></o:p></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><a href=3D"http://www.calit2.net/newsroom/presentations/lsmarr/2008/ppt/AALD= _ICT_and_Climate_011509.ppt">http://www.calit2.net/newsroom/presentations= /lsmarr/2008/ppt/AALD_ICT_and_Climate_011509.ppt</a><o:p></o:p></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span = style=3D'font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) presents a uniquely double-edge sword regarding climate change—simultaneously requiring substantial = efforts to slow down the growth of its own climate impact, while increasing the use = of ICT in other sectors to greatly lower their impact. This white paper = provides an overview of these challenges and opportunities, provides some examples = of on-going research, and lays out an agenda for American, Australian, and Canadian collaboration.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'margin-bottom:10.0pt'><b><span = style=3D'font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"'>Proposed Australian, American, Canadian Green ICT = Testbed<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span = style=3D'font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>UCSD and UCI are among the Greenest U.S. campuses. UCSD has undertaken a large = number of initiatives to move it rapidly toward a carbon neutral campus<a style=3D'mso-endnote-id:edn1' href=3D"#_edn1" name=3D"_ednref1" = title=3D""><span class=3DMsoEndnoteReference><span class=3DMsoEndnoteReference><span style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>[i]</span></s= pan></span></a>. UCI recently won the Best Overall category award in the annual Flex Your = Power program<a style=3D'mso-endnote-id:edn2' href=3D"#_edn2" = name=3D"_ednref2" title=3D""><span class=3DMsoEndnoteReference><span class=3DMsoEndnoteReference><span style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>[ii]</span></= span></span></a>, California’s statewide energy efficiency campaign. Among the = several hundred applicants, UCI was among just five winners of this level of recognition. This means that Calit2 has a strong foundation on its two = home campuses to undertake a wide range of Green = initiatives.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span = style=3D'font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span = style=3D'font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Since a key thematic element of Calit2 projects is international engagements, we = sought out both Canada and Australia to be partners in establishing an = international Green IT testbed. As a first step, on October 27, 2008 a MoU was signed = between UC San Diego, University of British Columbia, and Prompt Inc.<a style=3D'mso-endnote-id:edn3' href=3D"#_edn3" name=3D"_ednref3" = title=3D""><span class=3DMsoEndnoteReference><span class=3DMsoEndnoteReference><span style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>[iii]</span><= /span></span></a> during the third Summit of the Canada-California Strategic Innovation Partnership in Montreal, Canada. In one of the first efforts of its = kind, these universities in Canada and California are pledging to work together to = reduce GHG emissions on their campuses while developing a 'green = cyberinfrastructure' – information technology that improves energy efficiency and = reduces the impact of emissions on climate change.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span = style=3D'font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span style=3D'font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In = the near term, the institutions agreed to develop methods to share GHG emission = data in connection with International Organization for Standardization (ISO) = standards for information computer and telecommunications equipment (ISO 14062), = as well as baseline emission data for cyberinfrastructure and networks (ISO = 14064). These protocols will become much more widely used as those reducing ICT = GHG emissions wish to obtain energy credits in “cap and trade” = systems. The Calit2 GreenLight data center will be connected to Canadian end = users over the CENIC<a style=3D'mso-endnote-id:edn4' href=3D"#_edn4" = name=3D"_ednref4" title=3D""><span class=3DMsoEndnoteReference><span class=3DMsoEndnoteReference><span style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>[iv]</span></= span></span></a>/Pacific Wave<a style=3D'mso-endnote-id:edn5' href=3D"#_edn5" name=3D"_ednref5" = title=3D""><span class=3DMsoEndnoteReference><span class=3DMsoEndnoteReference><span style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>[v]</span></s= pan></span></a>/CANARIE<a style=3D'mso-endnote-id:edn6' href=3D"#_edn6" name=3D"_ednref6" = title=3D""><span class=3DMsoEndnoteReference><span class=3DMsoEndnoteReference><span style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>[vi]</span></= span></span></a> dedicated optical fiber networks. CANARIE in Canada is studying = establishing several research data centers near hydro, wind, and solar powered energy sources, so that a variety of Green Cloud alternatives can be = experimented with. Meanwhile, efforts are underway at Calit2 to use DC fuel cell technologies to experiment with feeding modular data centers locally = with zero carbon emission energy sources.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span = style=3D'font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span = style=3D'font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>With Australia, Calit2 will build on its now extensive relations<a = style=3D'mso-endnote-id: edn7' href=3D"#_edn7" name=3D"_ednref7" title=3D""><span = class=3DMsoEndnoteReference><span class=3DMsoEndnoteReference><span = style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>[vii]</span><= /span></span></a> with Australian universities, CSIRO, and AARNet to extend in 2009 the UCSD/Canadian Green IT testbed to sites in Australia. = Approximately half of the energy consumed by the Internet goes into the core network = routers in the core nodes. Therefore, large improvements in network energy efficiency can be obtained if each packet travelling through the = Internet passes through as few routers as possible. The primary method to = minimize router hops is to employ optical bypass, by which traffic is groomed = into wavelengths and/or wavebands which can be diverted around certain = routers, avoiding the need for full electronic processing and every router. CUBIN proposes to study this using the dedicated optical infrastructure made available by the AARNet/CENIC testbed. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class=3DMsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class=3DMsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class=3DMsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p> <p = class=3DMsoPlainText>-------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></p>= <p class=3DMsoPlainText>To subscribe or unsubscribe send e-mail to <a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a><o= :p></o:p></p> <p class=3DMsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class=3DMsoPlainText>These news items and comments are mine alone and = do not necessarily reflect those of the CANARIE board or = management.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class=3DMsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal>------<o:p></o:p></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><a = href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a><o:p= ></o:p></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><a = href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a><o:p></o:p></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><a = href=3D"http://billstarnaud.blogspot.com/">http://billstarnaud.blogspot.c= om/</a><o:p></o:p></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> <div style=3D'mso-element:endnote-list'><br clear=3Dall> <hr align=3Dleft size=3D1 width=3D"33%"> <div style=3D'mso-element:endnote' id=3Dedn1> <p class=3DMsoEndnoteText><a style=3D'mso-endnote-id:edn1' = href=3D"#_ednref1" name=3D"_edn1" title=3D""><span class=3DMsoEndnoteReference><span class=3DMsoEndnoteReference><span = style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>[i]</span></span= ></span></a> www.gogreentube.com/watch.php?v=3DNDc4OTQ1<o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div style=3D'mso-element:endnote' id=3Dedn2> <p class=3DMsoEndnoteText><a style=3D'mso-endnote-id:edn2' = href=3D"#_ednref2" name=3D"_edn2" title=3D""><span class=3DMsoEndnoteReference><span class=3DMsoEndnoteReference><span = style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>[ii]</span></spa= n></span></a> <a = href=3D"http://www.today.uci.edu/news/release_detail.asp?key=3D1859">www.= today.uci.edu/news/release_detail.asp?key=3D1859</a> UCI’s progressive energy and water efficiency programs were = highlighted for reducing campus electrical demand by up to 15,000 kW and saving = nearly four million gallons of water annually.<o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div style=3D'mso-element:endnote' id=3Dedn3> <p class=3DMsoEndnoteText><a style=3D'mso-endnote-id:edn3' = href=3D"#_ednref3" name=3D"_edn3" title=3D""><span class=3DMsoEndnoteReference><span class=3DMsoEndnoteReference><span = style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>[iii]</span></sp= an></span></a> Prompt, Inc. (www.promptinc.org) is a non-profit corporation that = fosters research and development, building university-industry partnerships to = increase the competitiveness of Quebec ’s information and communications technology (ICT) sector<o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div style=3D'mso-element:endnote' id=3Dedn4> <p class=3DMsoEndnoteText><a style=3D'mso-endnote-id:edn4' = href=3D"#_ednref4" name=3D"_edn4" title=3D""><span class=3DMsoEndnoteReference><span class=3DMsoEndnoteReference><span = style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>[iv]</span></spa= n></span></a> Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California = (www.cenic.org)<o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div style=3D'mso-element:endnote' id=3Dedn5> <p class=3DMsoEndnoteText><a style=3D'mso-endnote-id:edn5' = href=3D"#_ednref5" name=3D"_edn5" title=3D""><span class=3DMsoEndnoteReference><span class=3DMsoEndnoteReference><span = style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>[v]</span></span= ></span></a> Pacific Wave (www.pacificwave.net)<o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div style=3D'mso-element:endnote' id=3Dedn6> <p class=3DMsoEndnoteText><a style=3D'mso-endnote-id:edn6' = href=3D"#_ednref6" name=3D"_edn6" title=3D""><span class=3DMsoEndnoteReference><span class=3DMsoEndnoteReference><span = style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>[vi]</span></spa= n></span></a> Canada’s advanced network (www.canarie.ca)<o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div style=3D'mso-element:endnote' id=3Dedn7> <p class=3DMsoEndnoteText><a style=3D'mso-endnote-id:edn7' = href=3D"#_ednref7" name=3D"_edn7" title=3D""><span class=3DMsoEndnoteReference><span class=3DMsoEndnoteReference><span = style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>[vii]</span></sp= an></span></a> www.calit2.net/newsroom/release.php?id=3D1421<o:p></o:p></p> </div> </div> </body> </html> ------=_NextPart_000_00E6_01C97A52.DAD26BE0-- --===============1237148650== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ news mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canarie.ca/mailman/listinfo/news --===============1237148650==--