grc - canarie green it 2009
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Cameron Kiddle's presentation at the CANARIE Green IT Workshop (2009) regarding future plans of the Grid Research Centre relating to Green IT.TRANSCRIPT
Data Centre Automation and Sustainability
Cameron KiddleResearch Fellow
Grid Research Centre (GRC)University of Calgary
March 4, 2009 CANARIE Green IT Workshop - 2
Automated Service Provisioning ENvironment (ASPEN) Developed by the GRC (in
collaboration with HP Labs) to enable dynamic allocation and management of virtual machines/cloud services in a data centre
Similar to Eucalyptus, Nimbus and OpenNebula but has greater focus on scheduling capabilities and efficient image management
March 4, 2009 CANARIE Green IT Workshop - 3
Applications Running in ASPEN GeoChronos
CANARIE NEP project a collaborative cloud-based
computing environment for earth observation scientists
Rendering Cloud Cybera industry pilot project
with EDM Studio Inc A collaborative cloud-based
rendering service
March 4, 2009 CANARIE Green IT Workshop - 4
Proposed Plans of the GRC Continue to explore automation and sustainability of data
centres Improve efficiency, reduce operating costs, minimize ecological
impact Extend ASPEN to support migration of virtual machines/
cloud services between data centres Automate migrations based on economic and ecological impact Enable migration to zero carbon data centres Enable follow the sun/follow the wind grids
Deploy GeoChronos platform, cloud-based rendering service, and/or other real world applications in extended ASPEN environment