Collaboration initiative – Dolfin

EU Takes Aim at Datacentre Power Hogs

admin — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 08:45:00 +0000

What will the datacentre look like in the future? Will the ever-increasing demand for IT resources mean that power consumption will rise to dizzying heights? Will server-room design change? More importantly – a challenge that is faced by all datacentre operators – what measures can we put in place now to ensure that they operate as efficiently as possible? The short answer is that measures will focus on two areas in particular: making equipment more energy-efficient and making better use of renewable energy.

According to the recent Data Center 2025 survey from Emerson Power Networks, while most industry observers think that datacentres will became more efficient, nearly 30% of respondents thought that they would use more energy. This is rather surprising when you consider that 84% of respondents believe that infrastructure equipment will become more efficient, while 67% of them believe IT equipment will become more efficient.
There’s a bit of a disconnect there: one that’s even more surprising given the acceptance that renewable energy will start playing a bigger part. Respondents think that 21% of datacentres power will be solar-derived, a big leap from the one per cent that is currently powered by solar energy. Respondents see similar big rises for wind, thermal and hydro power, all indications that renewable energy is set to have a big impact on datacentres.
There’s certainly been a global drive to ensure that datacentres are designed to work more efficiently. The European Union is working particularly hard to improve the way datacentres operate and has instigated no fewer than six separate projects aimed at optimising the performance of datacentres: DOLFIN, GENiC, GEYSER, Green Data Net, DC4Cities and RenewIT.

Article by Max Cooter on November 27 2014.

DOLFIN @ second workshop of the DC Cluster Collaboration initiative

admin — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 08:35:06 +0000

On September 10, 2014, Artemis Voulkidis (Synelixis) and Alex Galis (UCL) participated at the second workshop of the DC Cluster Collaboration initiative.

Dolfin (Synelixis) acts as a leading project in the Task 4 activities of the DC Cluster Collaboration and presented a strategy to design and implement effective, IPMVP®-compatible [1] measurement and verification plans for the Data Center metrics identified in the previous tasks of the Collaboration.

Refer this link to download the presentation: Cluster – 20140910 – Task 4 – Overall

Green Data Centres workshop report

admin — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 13:20:03 +0000

On 1 April 2014 a technical workshop on “Green Data Centres: policy measures, methodologies and metrics” was hosted by the European Commission premises in Brussels. The interest of the Commission in Green Data Centres was triggered by the substantial increase in energy consumption and the general environmental impact during use, production and end-of-life of the data centres, and the forecast that their energy consumption will largely outpace the general growth in energy consumption and production.

Visit the link https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/17261 for more details

DC-cluster collaboration initiative in Green DCs context

admin — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 14:08:39 +0000

In the last meeting of the Coordination Group for Green DCs (composed by members of CEN, CENELEC, ETSI and The Green Grid), it was proposed that all 6 EC “smart-city” projects that deal with Green DCs (DC4Cities, DOLFIN, GENIC, RenewIT, GreenDataNet, GEYSER, All4Green and CoolEmAll) .

The goal is to come up with a clear definition of common metrics and methodologies.
The main objectives are:

define common metrics and methodologies
define a common terminology for the above
check whether these metrics/methodologies are applicable to all/several of these projects