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High performance, low carbon: ICT and the environment

High performance, low carbon: ICT and the environment. many people, including Mike Norris. Agenda. The challenge The ICT sector GN3-NA3.5 Preliminary results Conclusion. The Challenge. Climate change – some trends Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report, IPCC.

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High performance, low carbon: ICT and the environment

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  1. High performance, low carbon: ICT and the environment many people, including Mike Norris

  2. Agenda • The challenge • The ICT sector • GN3-NA3.5 • Preliminary results • Conclusion

  3. The Challenge

  4. Climate change – some trendsClimate Change 2007: Synthesis Report, IPCC

  5. Global & ContinentalTemperature Change

  6. Changes in GHG emissions(source: UNFCCC)

  7. The ICT Sector

  8. Trends in ICT sector

  9. Data centres • 120 x 109 Kwh/year= ~2% of global CO2 emission= emission from aviation industry

  10. … we have to be SMART

  11. Routers: a power law for power consumption

  12. IT mitigation • Videoconference2-day trip to a meeting 1000km away, VC can save €1000 and 500kg of CO2 per person • TeleworkingEvery teleworker can save ~ 1 ton of CO2 a year • Dematerialisation & substitutione.g. E-books, e-banking etc

  13. GN3-NA3.5

  14. Structure of GN3 • Joint research activities- JRA1: future network- JRA2: multi-domain resources & services- JRA3: enabling communities • Network activities- NA1: management- NA2: joint dissemination & outreach- NA3: status & trends- NA4: liaison & support • Service activities- SA1: GÉANT network architecture design & planning, procuring, building & operating- SA2: multi-domain service operation- SA3: end-user services in a federated environment- SA4: software governance

  15. GN3-NA3.5: work programme • Baseline audits...... of GÉANT and partner NRENs, using standards, such as ISO 14064 • Best current practice... ... and practical policies • Final results... ... and recommendations Throughout, liaison with other GN3 tasks, with NRENs and with projects such as Canarie’s Green IT pilot

  16. GHG audit

  17. Preliminary results

  18. HEAnet GHG emissions Provisional – to be checked

  19. GHG emission from schools network

  20. HEAnet staff commute

  21. Conclusion

  22. Further work • Wasteful redundancy – dual PSU and equipment resilience ? • Does equipment need to be powered on if it’s not in service or likely to be? Some questions that need to be addressed, without impinging on the level of service

  23. Investigating RE sources

  24. Caution “Green struck my head open, and freed me from all thinking!” From “Bus” by Marina Tsvetaeva, 1934-36

  25. Thank you

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