Green cloud computing

Editor's Notes

• #3 Contents of the Presentation: The reason I have called it as E-Journey(Environmental-Journey) is because we will come full cycle at the end of this presentation.
• #4 Definition of Green Computing as given by San Murugesan The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development(OECD) has published a survey of over 90 government and industry initiatives on "Green ICTs", i.e. information and communication technologies, the environment and climate change. The report concludes that initiatives tend to concentrate on the greening ICTs themselves rather than on their actual implementation to tackle global warming and environmental degradation APM-Advanced Power Management ACPI-Advanced configuration Power Interface-Predecessor to APM SpeedStep-Intel’s Technology
• #5 Cloud Computing- When talking about a cloud computing system, it's helpful to divide it into two sections: the front end and the back end. They connect to each other through a network, usually the Internet. The front end is the side the computer user, or client, sees. The back end is the "cloud" section of the system.
• #6 Transition from: Capital Based Expenditure(CapEx) to Operation Based Expenditure(OpEx)
• #7 Steps mentioned here are according to the IBM’s “Big Green” Approach to Data Centre Energy Energy Efficiency Virtualization continues to be one of the hottest green data center topics. Many current server CPU utilization rates typically hover between 5% and 15%. Direct-attached storage utilization sits between 20% and 40%, with network storage between 60% and 80%. Virtualization can increase hardware utilization by five to 20 times and allows organizations to reduce the number of power-consuming servers. Cloud computing is the “ultimate” in virtualization
• #8 Moving processing and data closer to the user in the developing region plays an import role on three fronts; Keeps needed jobs and systems ICT people in region, 2. Sidesteps high telecommunication bandwidth costs and network latency issues in and out of the region and 3. Quality of service: in region computing can remove a major points of network failure and potential bandwidth bottlenecks PPP-Public Private Partnerships Germany Example : Germany serves as an excellent example, as the country has become the world leader in solar power, with half the world’s installations within its borders, thanks to policies including aggressive renewable energy subsidies and large sums of money devoted to research.
• #9 The power consumption data for each server was obtained by first calculating the maximum power using HP’s power calculator , then following the convention that average power use for midrange/high-end servers is 66% of maximum power. Hard disk arrays include supporting functionality such as cache memories, disk array controllers, disk enclosures, and redundant power supplies. In a cloud computing data center, all the storage space in the data center is consolidated and hard disk usage is centrally coordinated. Through server virtualization/consolidation, a very large number of users can share a single server, which increases utilization and in turn reduces the total number of servers required. Users do not have or need any knowledge of the tasks being performed by other users and utilize the server as though they are the only user on the server. During periods of low demand, some of the servers enter a sleep mode which reduces energy consumption.
• #10 OLPC-One Laptop Per Child Project Examples such as 100$ laptop in US or Aakash Tablet PC launched in India These signify the innovations under adverse conditions. The first technological innovation highlighted herein focuses on the viability of small cloud computing farms deployed in small-scale data centers using low power processors like the Intel Atom, Arm Cortex and Via Nano. These central processing units (CPUs), originally designed for use in netbooks, require only 2 to 10 watts versus 80 to 160 watts for the processors typically used in data center servers. These low-power processors also have quiescent states that consume little energy, unlike the standard data center CPU that consumes 50% of its peak energy even while in idle mode. Microsoft Research has an organizational division called Cloud Computing Futures (CCF), focused on reducing the operational costs of data centers and increasing their adaptability and resilience to failure. Among their findings: “these processors offer substantial fractions (33 percent to 50 percent) of the performance of the high-performance processors used in Microsoft data centers but consume a disproportionally smaller amount of power (5 percent to 10 percent)” Comparable studies have been performed, obtaining similar results, at Carnegie Mellon University’s “FAWN: A Fast Array of Wimpy Nodes,” the Greenscale Center for Energy-Efficient Computing at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Prioritization: If we prioritize energy-savings instead of operate on a smaller, more cost effective solar PV system. Using energy aware cloud computing allows us also to manage the computing load during extreme weather conditions, by shutting off nonessential Activities. This leads to Energy Aware Cloud Computing. The Green Grid Consortium estimates that even in an efficient data center, 42 percent of the total power delivered to a traditional data center is consumed by chiller cooling and computer room air conditioners. One innovative approach is twofold: eliminating the majority of the heat to allow the use of ambient cooling (augmented with spot rack cooling), and running the data center at higher temperatures. The use of ambient cooling can be traced back for centuries in the Middle East and across Africa, as people from these regions, now considered part of the “developing world,” harnessed the cooler temperatures found underground to provide cooler air to vent above-ground built structures, as in a thermal chimney. Same can be applied to Data Centers.
• #11 PUE Definition Overall Power Drawn by the facility divided by the Power Delivered to the Data Centers. PUE relates the total consumption of the installation with that considered essential to the service: the computer servers(IT Load). It is the responsibility of the IT manager to reduce the consumption of IT load (renewing servers, virtualizing, etc.), and the responsibility of the infrastructure manager to reduce the auxiliary consumption (more efficient equipment, free-cooling, etc.) CUE –Carbon Usage Effectiveness CUE defines CO2 emissions associated with the DC losses.
• #12 Energy-Use Dashboards at Montpelier, France The demo data center in Montpelier, France is called the PSSC (Products and Solutions Support Center) Green Data Center of the Future. The main idea was to create a customer friendly real-time green showcase production data center that will demonstrate a large percentage of the currently available best practices in IT and facilities energy conservation, integrating at least one bleeding-edge major conservation technology. The information on the use of a live camera, thermal camera, and green IT energy use real-time dashboards available to IT personnel through a portal are interesting innovations that can help communicate the energy efficiency of the data center to all interested employees. The Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) is the metric used to measure the energy efficiency of a data center. Both IT and non-IT resources’ energy consumption are gathered. Two PUEs are measured: overall and high-density zone.
• #13 Workload diversification: Because many different sorts of users will be availing themselves of diverse cloud resources – different applications, different feature set preferences and different usage volumes – this will improve hardware utilization and therefore make better use of power that is being used anyway to keep a server up and running. 2. Power-management flexibility: It is easier to manage virtual servers than physical servers from a power perspective. If hardware fails, the load can automatically be deployed elsewhere. Likewise, in theory, all virtual loads could be moved to certain servers when loads are light and power-down or idle those that are not being used. Recent implementation of cloud computing - virtualization at a Canadian non-profit, Earth Rangers, demonstrated their ability to replace 4 racks of servers with ½ rack of servers and ½ rack of storage for their entire IT Operation.
• #17 This case study is for a large cell phone company in South Africa. The cell phone company was experiencing very typical concerns for large companies with their test and development environments. There was significant amounts of test server waste due to lack of governance and management – for example every project gets servers for testing and the servers were often not released when testing is completed A private cloud was proposed to manage the company’s virtualized test environments. The private cloud was designed to provide tight governance around automated provisioning and de-commissioning of environments allocated to projects.
• #18 1100+ Server Instances – The number of instances has grown exponentially over the past 5 years.
• #19 This case study for a bank in Johannesburg, South Africa provided much of the incentive for the cell phone company described above.
• #21 These are some of the facets of research concerning the Indian Scenario. IPTV-IP Television VOIP- Voice Over Internet Protocol
• #22 Refer Conclusions & Future Scope
• #23 Some References mentioned