Στο πλαίσιο της Σειράς Σεμιναρίων του Τμήματος Πληροφορικής του ΟΠΑ, θα
διεξαχθεί την Τετάρτη 12/1 στις 12:00, ομιλία του Ανδρέα Τερζή, καθηγητή
στο τμήμα Πληροφορικής του πανεπιστημίου Johns Hopkins, με τίτλο:

Active Cyber-Thermal Management of Data Centers for Energy Efficiency

Περίληψη:
The IT industry is the one of the fastest growing sectors of the U.S.
economy in terms of its energy consumption. According to a 2007 EPA report,
U.S. data centers alone consumed 61 billion kWh in 2006 — enough energy to
power 5.8 million average households. Even under conservative estimates, IT
energy consumption is projected to double by 2011.
Reducing data center energy consumption is a pressing issue for the entire
IT industry now and into the future. In this talk I will argue that dense
and real-time environmental monitoring systems are needed to improve the
energy efficiency of IT facilities and describe RACNet, a sensor network for
monitoring a data center’s environmental conditions.
RACNet overcomes the network’s large scale and density and the data center’s
harsh RF environment to achieve data yields of 99% or higher over a wide
range of network sizes and sampling frequencies. In the second part of the
talk I will describe how data collected by RACnet can be used to predict
temperature distributions and trends in data centers.
Such accurate predictions inform scheduling algorithms that place workload
in ways to improve energy efficiency by reducing the duty cycle of the data
center’s air conditioning system and thus its energy consumption.

Βιογραφικό σημείωμα:
Andreas Terzis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer
Science at Johns Hopkins University, where he heads the Hopkins
InterNetworking Research (HiNRG) Group. His research interests are in the
broad area of wireless sensor networks, including protocol design, system
support, and data management. Dr. Terzis is a recipient of the NSF CAREER
award.

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Η ομιλία θα διεξαχθεί στην αίθουσα Α41 (Πατησίων 76 πτέρυγα Αντωνιάδου, 4ος
όροφος).

hi, glad to be part of this