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Oricane AB Josefine Åhl, Algorithm Designer

Oricane AB Josefine Åhl, Algorithm Designer. Strengths of the university Leading-edge research Applied research Multidisciplinary Focus areas and development areas Geographical location - climate Warm and welcoming. Scandinavia’s northernmost university of technology - ambition

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Oricane AB Josefine Åhl, Algorithm Designer

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  1. Oricane AB Josefine Åhl, Algorithm Designer

  2. Strengths of the university • Leading-edge research • Applied research • Multidisciplinary • Focus areas and development areas • Geographical location - climate • Warm and welcoming

  3. Scandinavia’s northernmost university of technology - ambition • A forerunner in thought and action • World-class education and research • Cross-disciplinary collaboration and interaction

  4. 53%Research • Facts about the university • Founded 1971 • Turnover 130 million euro • 12,000 students • 1,400 employees • 150 professors • 500 teachers & researchers • 641 doctoral students* • 69 research subjects in 12 departments • Conducts research in the Faculty of engineering and the Faculty of arts and social sciences 47%Education Source: annual report 2007 *Including doctoral students in industry, not counted in total employees at LTU

  5. Faculty of engineering • Turnover 56 million euro • 53 research subjects • 6 departments

  6. Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering • One of the university’s engineering education departments • Providing education and conducting research in the field of ”Computers in Physical Systems” • Co-operation • ProcessIT Innovations • The Centre for Distance-Spanning Technology

  7. ProcessIT Innovations • Collaboration centre for processing and engineering industries, universities and IT companies • Run R&D projects and activities based on identified needs of the basic industry • Leads to new products and services with large IT content • Owned and delivered by new or existing companies in an international market Contact: Anders OE Johansson anders.oe.johansson@ltu.se www.processitinnovations.se

  8. Centre for Distance-Spanning Technology (CDT) • Centre for IT research, development and innovation • Creative environment for prosperous collaboration between academy, IT companies, public authorities and users • Integrates research, prototyping and business development • Extending Human Capabilities with advanced information, interaction and communication technology • Offsprings • Effnet • Marratech • Operax • Oricane Contact: Mikael Börjeson Mikael.Borjeson@cdt.ltu.se www.cdt.ltu.se

  9. New Programs at Luleå University of Technology • Behind the start-up is the need of academically trained workforce from basic industry and community • Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering • Mobile Systems • Sustainable IT Systems

  10. Mobile Systems • A new Master Program, September 2009 • Academic areas targeted are services, applications and network solutions in mobile computing environments • Multidisciplinary academic program that focuses on future systems • Attract new students • Contribute to the creation of new companies within the mobile industry Contact: Prof. Arkady Zaslavsky arkady.zaslavsky@ltu.se

  11. Sustainable IT Systems • A new green Master Program, September 2009 • Focus on the global environment • New sustainable and energy efficient technologies can help to improve • Hot and important topic • Attract new students • Contribute to the creation of new environmental friendly companies Contact: Prof. Per Lindgren Per.Lindgren@ltu.se

  12. Successful companies originated from the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering • Effnet AB (1997) • Operax (1999) • Rockstorm Technology AB (2000) • Nordnav (2002) • Oricane AB (2006) • … • Total VC: • Total Market Cap: 1 million euro/employee 70 million euro 19 million euro/employee 1.3 billion euro

  13. 1997 Oct - 2006 April - 2006 2006 ”Mikael Sundström” ”CDT” ”Entrepreneurail University” ”Vinnova” Oricane AB Josefine Åhl, Algorithm Designer • Center for Distance Spanning Technology (CDT) • Organization within Luleå University of Technology • VITAL – Objective 1 Norra Norrland EU structural fund programme (MÅL 1) • EEU – sponsored by Nutek and by MÅL 1 (2006) • Funding for most of the work since 2003 • Green Software Technology • My journey with Oricane began • Launch Goto-Market Strategy • Package Green Software Product Portfolio • Dr. Craig Partridge joins as technical advisor 8 years of research in energy efficient software 8(+5) patent applications and 13 trademarks filed in 18 months • Oricane AB - Founded • Continued research • Build Patent Portfolio • PhD Defense • Opponent Dr. Craig Partridge, BBN Technologies • Mikael Sundström • Degree of Licentiate of Technology - Luleå University of Technology (LTU) • Joined start-up company Effnet AB - Chief Technology Officer • Founded Rockstorm Technology AB • Vint Cerf • Research presented at seminar • Chief Internet evangelist, Google • Academic Research • Luleå University of Technology (LTU) • ”Time and Space Efficient Algorithms for Packet Classification and Forwarding” • Algorithmic Engineering • Supervisor Svante Carlsson, founder of Effnet AB • An Entrepreneurial University project • Luleå University of Technology (LTU) • Nils Svanljung • Financed the first round of patent applications • Seed Funding • Equity: 10,5 % • Funding: 800 000 Euro • Vinnova • Project ”Classification of IPv6 Traffic” • Continue until 2009 2000 Nov - 2006 June - 2005 Sep - 2007 Oct - 2007 ”Company founded” ”Green Software” ”Academic Research” ”Vint Cerf” ”Seed funding” www.oricane.com

  14. The Challenge • Internet uses 5% of the total • electric power production in the world • Internet growth is 50-60% per year × 60,000,000 × 90 × 135,000,000,000 × 900,000,000 www.oricane.com

  15. Current efforts • Google ”Recharge the Planet” The worlds largest corporate campus solar power installation • Sun ”Eco Innovation Initiative”$2 billion per year to improve hardware power consumption • IBM ”Project Big Green”$1 billion per year to improve server utilization in data centers • ”Climate Savers Computing Initiative”Google and Intel have invited the largest hardware vendors to work together on the problem • Focus: Energy efficient hardware www.oricane.com

  16. Oricane’s focus • Energy efficient software • Oricane’s mission • Reduce the power consumption of the Internet • Oricane’s edge • 8 years of research • 8 (+ 5) patent applications • 13 trademarks Focus: Energy efficient software www.oricane.com

  17. x 18 x 2 Moore’s Law • Implications on Software Industry • No need to engineer efficient software • Moore’s law “takes care” of performance Software IS NOT energy efficient www.oricane.com

  18. Digital signal processing • Graphics rendering • Weather simulations • Packet forwarding (i.e., routing lookups) • Packet classification (i.e., firewall filtering) • Data storage, searching and indexing (i.e., data centers) www.oricane.com

  19. Oricane improves the efficiency of decision processes in software This is how it works… • Packet forwarding (i.e., routing lookups) • Packet classification (i.e., firewall filtering) • Data storage, searching and indexing (i.e., data centers) www.oricane.com

  20. ENERGY=PROCESSOR×MEMORY www.oricane.com

  21. Traditional software technology Optimizing PROCESSING PROCESSOR cost is reduced MEMORY cost blows up Optimizing MEMORY MEMORY cost is reduced PROCESSOR cost blows up HIGH POWER CONSUMPTION www.oricane.com www.oricane.com

  22. Oricane’s green software technology Optimizing MEMORY and PROCESSOR MEMORY cost is reduced PROCESSOR cost is reduced LOW POWER CONSUMPTION www.oricane.com

  23. Decision processes • How to reduce power • Optimize and mold all decision processes • Schedule to create idle intervals • Shut down the processor during idle intervals Power consumption www.oricane.com

  24. Internet Storage Case Study: Data CentersHow to unleash the full potential of virtualization www.oricane.com

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  26. BioCAM™ Software based extended ternary content addressable memory featuring low deterministic memory usage with high deterministic lookup speed independent of the number of cells. Packet classification and packet forwarding Packet classification (firewall filtering) for mobile phones Routing and firewalling Mobile phones 99% energy savings for IPv6 packet forwarding 6.4 kB memory (IPv6) 75% energy savings for IPv6 packet classification 2.4 kB memory (IPv4) www.oricane.com

  27. BioDEX mobile™ Solution for compressing, storing and searching information in mobile phones and other small devices • Euro Phone Book • Over 134 million contacts • Name, Phone Number • In your mobile phone • 50-70 milliseconds search time The Golden Mobile Award ”Mobile Technology Development of the year” • Contact database application • For comparison and demonstration • Same information as in the mobile phone • Computer is at least 10 times more powerful • Similar or better search time on mobile phone www.oricane.com

  28. Josefine Åhl Algorithm Designer E-mail: josefine@oricane.com Internet: www.oricane.com Org no: 556716-6805 Office: +46 920 753 72 Mobile: +46 70 294 92 95 Oricane AB Aurorum 1 C 977 75 Luleå Sweden 1% × 12,000,000 × 18 × 27,000,000,000 × 198,000,000 www.oricane.com

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