Monday, October 13, 2003
MONDAY MORNING (09:00 – 12:45)
- Welcome speech, Robert Cramer, Conseiller d'Etat - Département
de l'intérieur, de l'agriculture et de l'environnement,
Genève (to be confirmed);
1 Energy efficiency in data centers
- Energy- and Eco-Efficiency in Data Centers, The Geneva-Study,
Bernard Aebischer, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich;
- Energy Use in Data Centers in the USA (including Roadmapping
Project), William Tschudi, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
Berkeley;
- Over ten years successfully energy-benchmarking in Swiss data
centers, Martin Baenninger, Telekurs Services AG, Zurich;
- First results of a research project on energy efficient planning
of new data centers, Adrian Altenburger, Amstein+Walthert AG,
Zurich;
- Energy savings by raising the temperature in telephone exchanges
and computing centers, Dominique Singy, Swisscom, Berne;
- France Telecom, Didier Marquet (to be confirmed).
2 Energy efficiency in ICT equipment
- Summary of recent research projects in Switzerland, Alois Huser,
Competence Centre Energy and Information Technology;
- Research activities in France, Alain Anglade (to be confirmed);
- Blade servers, Christopher Hipp, RLX Technologies, Redwood City,
CA
- Highlights of EEDAL'03 - conference in Turin, October 1-3,
Paolo Bertoldi, European Commission - DG JRC, Ispra.
3 An integrated view of the problem
- Design Recommendations for Low-Power Data Centers, Huston Eubank,
Rocky Mountain Institute, Snowmass, COA
LUNCH BREAK (12:45 – 14:00)
MONDAY AFTERNOON (14:00 – 18:30)
4 Computing performance and costs
- The CERN computing Centre Today and Tomorrow, Tony Cass, CERN,
Geneva;
- Rationale for Technology Choice in the CERN Computing Centre,
Bernd Panzer, CERN, Geneva;
- SIG OPTIMA: une démarche structurée, méthodique,
par étapes, Philippe Mayer, Services industriels de Genève,
Genève ;
- Le centre d'hébergement: partager pour plus d'efficacité,
Eric Bachman, Services industriels de Genève, Genève
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5 Energy Policy: objectives, strategies and measures
- Policy measures in the canton of Geneva: construction permission,
voluntary target agreement, monitoring, Olivier Ouzilou, Director,
Energy Service of the Canton of Geneva;
- Applying the Swiss Energy Model to Data Centers Thomas Bürki,
Thomas Bürki GmbH and Swiss Energy Agency ;
- Purchasing criteria for ICT equipment in the Swiss Federal Administration,
Alois Huser, Encontrol GmbH, Niederrohrdorf;
- Using purchasing power in the US and elsewhere to foster energy
efficiency of ICT equipment, Jeffrey Harris, Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory, Berkeley;
- The EU Energy Star Programme, Paolo Bertholdi, European Commission
- DG JRC, Ispra.
6, Equipment manufacturers and users working together
to realize the needs and make voluntary performance improvements
- as competitive advantages!
- Panel discussion with participation of manufacturers, users,
facilitators and observers.
Tuesday, October 14, 2003
Workshops with invited participants (speakers at the Monday-Conference,
data centre operators, consultants and planners of data centres,
important buyers of ICT-equipment, manufacturers, energy agencies,
policy makers, NGOs, others)
Topics discussed:
- Similarities, differences, complementarities in the outcomes
of two studies on potentials, opportunities and approaches to
foster energy efficiency in data centres
- Performance metrics, benchmarking, and target value of energy
efficiency in data centres
- Policy design and policy measures regarding energy efficiency
in data centres in Geneva, in Switzerland and elsewhere
- Energy declaration and labelling of (small) UPS
- Switching off servers
- Energy efficiency of power supply for ICT-equipment
- Purchasing criteria for ICT-equipment and strategies (public
purchasing/procurement and purchasing by large buyers)
- Vision of a resource-optimised server
- Value of a watt of power delivered to a server
Inquiries should be sent to the scientific committee: bernard.aebischer@cepe.mavt.ethz.ch
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