SENODs
Sustainable ENergy-Optimized Datacenters
| FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-012988 CMU-PT/SIA/0045/2009 39 months (Oct 2010 to Dec 2013) | |
| Summary: | Data centers increasingly constitute a critical backbone of the worldwide information technology (IT) infrastructure, forming the server infrastructure for search engines, mail servers, e-commerce, data warehousing and other cloud computing functions. Thousands of data centers operate across the world occupying various millions of square meters. While such data centers generally target large-scale virtual IT services, the design, construction and operation of data centers (i) depend on cyber-physical infrastructure with major power and cooling requirements, (ii) incur significant energy costs, and (iii) can lead to significant economic and societal impact from the failures of physical subsystems. In fact, power and cooling in a data center cost more than the IT equipment supported. As a result, data centers face an emerging crisis. The SENODs (Sustainable ENergy-Optimized Datacenters) project will rectify that by: (i) using ultimate distributed sensing technologies to provide fine-grained monitoring of power consumption, cooling and data center environmental variables to identify, model, analyze and optimize energy costs; (ii) developing intelligent layout optimization algorithms that offer recommendations regarding placement of new servers so as to minimize local hotspots and improve energy efficiency; (iii) providing support for alerts and notifications of actual or pending failures in cooling and other infrastructure equipment to gracefully shut down some or all of center operations; (iv) online capacity and workload management that allows dynamic reallocation of computing loads driven by energy and cost minimization. |
| Funding: | Global: 292KEUR, CISTER: 219KEUR |
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| Contact Person at CISTER: | Eduardo Tovar |
| CISTER Project Information: | http://www.cister.isep.ipp.pt/activities/SENODs/ |
20, Oct, 2017
Portuguese Aeronautics, Space and Defence Cluster visits CISTER
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Journal Papers
Message-oriented middleware for smart grids CISTER-TR-140803
Michele Albano, Luis Lino Ferreira, Luis Miguel Pinho, Abdel Rahman AlkhawajaComputer Standards and Interfaces, Elsevier. Feb 2015, Volume 38, pp 133-143.
Michele Albano, Luis Lino Ferreira, Luis Miguel Pinho, Abdel Rahman AlkhawajaComputer Standards and Interfaces, Elsevier. Feb 2015, Volume 38, pp 133-143.
A Microscope for the Data Center CISTER-TR-130501
Nuno Pereira, Stefano Tennina, João Loureiro, Ricardo Severino, Bruno Saraiva, Manuel Santos, Filipe Pacheco, Eduardo TovarInternational Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNet), Inderscience. 2015, Volume 18, Issue 3/4, pp 193-203.An extended version of a conference publication titled "Building a Microscope for the Data Center" (ref. HURRAY-TR-120704)
Nuno Pereira, Stefano Tennina, João Loureiro, Ricardo Severino, Bruno Saraiva, Manuel Santos, Filipe Pacheco, Eduardo TovarInternational Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNet), Inderscience. 2015, Volume 18, Issue 3/4, pp 193-203.An extended version of a conference publication titled "Building a Microscope for the Data Center" (ref. HURRAY-TR-120704)