HEAnet – Green IT - MANTICORE

Dublin, March 4th, 2008

Victor Reijs, HEAnetvictor.reijs@heanet.ie

• ICT– ICT uses around 2 to 2.5% GHG (and growing)

http://www.itu.int/osg/blog/2008/11/07/ITUMembersAgreeToReduceGHGEmissionsFromICTUse.aspx

– ICT can be used to monitor climate parameters– ICT can stimulate a major indirect savings on the…

• Rest– Rest uses around 98% GHG– ICT can help reduce these GHG– ITU Focus Group on ICTs and Climate Change (FG ICT&CC)

http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/focusgroups/climate/

• But Mighty oaks from little acorns grow– So lets look at managing the direct savings of ICT…

Greenhouse Gases

• User needs functionalitylocation/application/network/energy preferences

• Functionality needs resourcesapplication servers, network related resources (switches/routers/links), energy

• Energy resource has energy properties like ISO14064, and more IMHO, like ‘nuclear’: YES/NO

• Location/application/network have their properties part of the evaluation/optimisation

• Opportunity based ‘routing’ determines functionality (application) network

• Dynamics of above around several hours

Follow Sun and Moon

• Resources based networks– MANTICORE-II project (IaaS) partners: Cisco, HEAnet, i2CAT,

Juniper, NORDUNET, RedIRIS, Uni. of Essex– Combining MANTICORE (layer 3) with other IaaS instantiations

like ARGIA (layer 1) and ETHER (layer 2)• Resources based applications:

– Looking for partners, like NDRC• Measurement infrastructure

– Gather energy and other properties – might be based on IaaS/GN2 perfSONAR– Study of Environmental Impact in GN3 NA3.5

• Rules/policies – eg ISO14064 and GN3 NA3.5

• Combining/stitching resources– IaaS does not really do that– Stitching Framework

• Renewable energy resources…

Some renewals

• HEAnet PoPs– At clients (Universities or IoTs)– At commercial co-location sites incl. ESB Telecoms– Network and application servers centralized&virtualized– Decide on using AC or DC power– Small/large scale– Remove myths and replace with knowledge

• Possible Sun/Moon/Earth source in Ireland– Tidal (Moon)– Wind (Sun)– Geothermal (Earth)– Hydro electric (Sun)– Outside temperature (Sun)

• We are investigating renewable energy resources at HEAnet or new PoPs

Renewable energy