{"47396":{"#nid":"47396","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Launches Experimental Green IT Initiative","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe biggest challenge in computing today, some experts say, is\nnot processing power, but power consumption. In 2007,\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003Ethe Environmental Protection Agency forecasted that as of 2011,\ndata centers will be responsible for 2 percent of all power consumption in the\nU.S., and some predictions foresee those levels rising to almost 6 percent by\n2020. Finally, there are numerous anecdotes about power demands caused by data\ncenters, including partial brownouts when supercomputers are switched on and\nnew data centers having to be moved to where cheap hydro-power is available,\nsuch as the Columbia River Gorge.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EClearly, power consumption is not only an environmental concern,\nbut also a productivity and security issue. If high-performance computing (HPC)\ncenters are going to be able to run larger simulations and process more and\nmore data, they must find a way to decrease their facilities\u0027 drain on the\npower grid.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ETo help understand and reduce power consumption, the Georgia\nInstitute of Technology has launched Green IT. The effort considers power\nconsumption across the entire \u0022energy stack,\u0022 ranging from the power consumed\nby modern multi-core platforms, to the board and rack levels, to the entire\ndata center. Corralling expertise from Georgia Tech\u0027s College of Computing,\nCollege of Engineering and Office of Information Technology, the consortium is\na multidisciplinary effort that looks at how to build large-scale systems that\nuse less power. The goal is to better understand where and how power is used,\nand to make it possible to coordinate power usage across different data center\ncomponents, such as the cooling and the IT infrastructure.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022With experts from computer science looking at systems\nmanagement, cloud computing and virtualization, and electrical engineers\ninvestigating chip design along with mechanical engineers working on cooling technologies,\nGeorgia Tech is in a great position to help solve the power consumption\nproblem,\u0022 said Karsten Schwan, a professor in Georgia Tech\u0027s College of\nComputing.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EOften, research efforts like these must use simulated machines,\nwith heaters substituting for computers; but the Green IT group will be using a\nlarge-scale commodity system, a 1,000-node IBM BladeCenter, to conduct its\ninvestigations.\u0026nbsp; The system was\npreviously used by the Center for the Study of Systems Biology.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Rather than junking the old machine, Georgia Tech decided that\nwe could recycle it and use it for energy-efficient IT research along with a\nhost of other uses,\u0022 said Schwan.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe GreenIT effort is led by Sudhakar Yalamanchili in Electrical\nand Computer Engineering and includes the following faculty members: Ada\nGavrilovska, Ron Hutchins, Yogendra Joshi,\u0026nbsp; Hyesoon Kim,\u0026nbsp;\nHsien-Hsin Lee,\u0026nbsp; Saibal\nMukhopadhyay,\u0026nbsp; Santosh Pande,\nCalton Pu, Karsten Schwan,\u0026nbsp;\nMadhavan Swaminathan, Yorai Wardi, Marilyn Wolf and Jun Xu.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThis week, Georgia Tech is showcasing research activities in\nhigh-performance computing and the computational sciences at SC09. The\nconference takes place at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon,\nNov. 14-20. Researchers and staff will be on hand at Booth 132 to demonstrate\nand discuss Georgia Tech\u0027s latest research and activities in the field.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Recycled HPC System to be Used To Develop Sustainable Power Consumption"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGreen IT Initiative looks at power consumption from the microchip to the data center.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Effort looks at power consumption from the microchip to the data center."}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2009-11-18 09:27:41","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:49","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-11-18T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2009-11-18T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"46038":{"id":"46038","type":"image","title":"Klaus building","body":null,"created":"1449174347","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:25:47","changed":"1475894409","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:09","alt":"Klaus building","file":{"fid":"190089","name":"tuv62996.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tuv62996_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tuv62996_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":40752,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tuv62996_0.jpg?itok=UK4jSwpw"}}},"media_ids":["46038"],"groups":[{"id":"1183","name":"Home"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"}],"keywords":[{"id":"439","name":"computer"},{"id":"7804","name":"HSC Schwan"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EStefany Wilson\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Tech College of Computing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cstrong\u003E404.894.7253\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:stefany@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Estefany@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}