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Enhanced Telepresence and Green IT—
The Next Evolution in the Internet
Distinguished Research Lecture
Cisco Research Center
San Jose, CA
September 24, 2009
Dr. Larry Smarr
Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and
Information Technology
Harry E. Gruber Professor,
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD
Twitter: lsmarr
The global Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industry produces GHGs
equivalent to that produced by the aviation industry (~2-3 %). Furthermore, the ICT
sector's emissions will nearly triple, in a business as usual scenario, from 2002 to 2020.
On the other hand, the Climate Group estimates that transformative application of ICT to
electricity grids, logistic chains, intelligent transportation and building infrastructure,
and other social systems can reduce global GHG emissions by ~15%, five times ICT's
own footprint! I will discuss three campus testbeds for exploring these complex
tradeoffs. The first testbed is the NSF-funded GreenLight Project deployed at UCSD,
which creates an instrumented data center allowing for detailed real time data
measurements of the critical subcomponents and then making that data publically
available on the web, so that the results can guide users who wish to lower the energy
cost of computation and storage. The second testbed is the use of dedicated optical
networks (operating at 10,000 Mbps) coupled to large tiled walls (with fractions of a
billion pixels) and high definition (2 Mpixel/frame) or digital cinema (8Mpixel/frame) as
"telepresence" systems for "sewing remote rooms together" as a way to reduce the need
for transportation for national or global collaboration. Finally, I will analyze the use of
campuses themselves, which are functionally small towns with their own power grids,
commuter transportation systems, hospitals, and populations in the tens of thousands
and so are at-scale Green IT Living Laboratories of the Greener Future.
ICT Could be a Key Factor
in Reducing the Rate of Climate Change
Applications of ICT
could enable emissions reductions
of 15% of business-as-usual emissions.
But it must keep its own growing footprint in check
and overcome a number of hurdles
if it expects to deliver on this potential.
www.smart2020.org
The Earth is Warming Over 100 Times Faster Today
Than During the Last Ice Age Warming!
CO2 Rose From
185 to 265ppm (80ppm)
in 6000 years or
1.33 ppm per Century
CO2 Has Risen From
335 to 385ppm (50ppm)
in 30 years or
1.6 ppm per Year
http://scrippsco2.ucsd.edu/program_history/keeling_curve_lessons.html
Monnin, et al., Science v. 291 pp. 112-114, Jan. 5, 2001.
Antarctic Ice Cores Show CO2 and Temperature
Have Oscillated For 800,000 Years in a Narrow Range
Vertical
Range
170 to
300 ppm
Ice Cores: Luthi, et al. Nature may 15, 2008 v. 453 pp379-82
Today 386-
Homonid Images: The Last Human, G.J. Sawyer and V. Deak
Ice Core Record Has Been Extended Using Plankton:
Today’s CO2 is Higher Than in Last 2 Million Years!
350
400
450
500
550
Today’s CO2 Level
Possible Level by 2100, Shell “Blueprints” Scenario
CO2: Hönisch, et al. Science 19 June 2009 Vol. 324. pp. 1551 - 1554
Homonid Images: The Last Human, G.J. Sawyer and V. Deak
We Are Transitioning to a New Climate State --
Unlike the Rapid Recovery with Acid Rain or Ozone Hole
Susan Solomon, et al., PNAS 2/10/2009 v. 106 pp1704-9
Assumes
CO2 Increases
to a Maximum
and Then Emissions
Abruptly Stop
Warming During
the Industrial Age --
Last 200 Years
Warming
Persists for
Over 1000
Years
The IPCC Recommends
a 25-40% Reduction Below 1990 Levels by 2020
• On September 27, 2006, Governor Schwarzenegger signed
California the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006
– Assembly Bill 32 (AB32)
– Requires Reduction of GHG by 2020 Only to 1990 Levels
– 10% Reduction from 2008 Levels; 30% from BAU 2020 Levels
– 4 Tons of CO2-equiv. Reduction for Every Person in California!
• The European Union Requires Reduction of GHG by 2020 to
20% Below 1990 Levels (12/12/2008)
• Neither the U.S. or Canada has an Official Target Yet
– President Obama Has Endorsed the AB32 2020 Goal
ICT is a Critical Element in Achieving Countries
Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Targets
www.smart2020.org
GeSI member companies:
• Bell Canada,
• British Telecomm.,
• Plc,
• Cisco Systems,
• Deutsche Telekom AG,
• Ericsson,
• France Telecom,
• Hewlett-Packard,
• Intel,
• Microsoft,
• Nokia,
• Nokia Siemens Networks,
• Sun Microsystems,
• T-Mobile,
• Telefónica S.A.,
• Telenor,
• Verizon,
• Vodafone Plc.
Additional support:
• Dell, LG.
Application of ICT Can Lead to a 5-Fold Greater
Decrease in GHGs Than its Own Carbon Footprint
Major Opportunities for the United States*
– Smart Electrical Grids
– Smart Transportation Systems
– Smart Buildings
– Virtual Meetings
* Smart 2020 United States Report Addendum
www.smart2020.org
While the sector plans to significantly step up
the energy efficiency of its products and services,
ICT’s largest influence will be by enabling
energy efficiencies in other sectors, an opportunity
that could deliver carbon savings five times larger than
the total emissions from the entire ICT sector in 2020.
--Smart 2020 Report
Developing Greener Smart Campuses
as Societal Prototypes: Calit2 (UCSD & UCI)
• Travel Substitution
– Commercial Teleconferencing
– Polycom PC Client
– LifeSize HD
– Cisco Telepresence
– Next Generation Global Telepresence
• Coupling the Internet and the Electrical Grid
– Choosing non-GHG Emitting Electricity Sources
– Measuring Demand at Sub-Building Levels
– Reducing Local Energy Usage via User Access Thru Web
Student Video -- UCSD Living Laboratory for Real-World Solutions
www.gogreentube.com/watch.php?v=NDc4OTQ1 on UCSD
UCI Named ‘Best Overall' in Flex Your Power Awards
www.today.uci.edu/news/release_detail.asp?key=1859
Cisco on
Cisco TelePresence Deployment
 533 Cisco TelePresence
major cities globally
 US/Canada: 108 CTS 3000, 109 CTS
1000, 6 CTS 3200, 90 CTS 500, 3
CTS1300
 APAC: 29 CTS 3000, 34 CTS 1000, 14
CTS 500, 3 CTS 3200, 1 CTS1300
 Japan: 7 CTS 3000, 2 CTS 1000, 1
CTS 500, 1 CTS 3200, 1 CTS1300
 Europe: 31 CTS 3000, 35 CTS 1000, 5
CTS3200, 27CTS500, 2 CTS1300
 Emerging: 14 CTS 3000, 3 CTS1000,
1 CTS3200, 7 CTS 500
163 Major Cities in 45
countries
 355K TelePresence
meetings scheduled to
date. (Weekly average
utilization in the past
30 days is 21,522
meetings)
 473K hours (average meeting is
1.25 hrs)
 27K+ meetings with customers to
discuss Cisco Technology over
TelePresence
 68K+ meetings avoided
travel
 Conservative estimate of cost
savings and productivity
improvement
~$296M to date
 Metric tons of emissions saved::
149,018
 Equal to >25,000+ cars off the road
•Overall average utilization
49%
Changing the Way We Work, Live, Play and Learn
Updated Aug 2,2009….145 weeks after launch
•30K Multipoint mtgs
•Average 3,919 in past 30
days
Calit2 Will Have
CTS 1000s at
UCSD and UCI
I Link Into Commercial H.323 Videoconfernces
From My Laptop at Home
UCSD Calit2 Director
& Chief of Staff UCI Calit2 Director
The Weekly Calit2 Director’s Meeting
Work at Home is the Same
As at the Office
Virtual Kristen
Kristen
Prints Here
For Amy
Real Amy
We Run Video Sykpe Continuously
During Office Hours
Kristen
Reads My Email,
Sets My Calendar.
Works With Amy
on My Trips
Linking the Calit2 Auditoriums at UCSD and UCI
with LifeSize HD for Shared Seminars
September 8, 2009
Photo by Erik Jepsen, UC San Diego
Sept. 8, 2009
Global Innovation Centers are Being Connected
with 10,000 Megabits/sec Clear Channel Lightpaths
Source: Maxine Brown, UIC and Robert Patterson, NCSA
Research on 100 Gbps and 1 Tbps
Launch of the 100 Megapixel OzIPortal Kicked Off
a Rapid Build Out of Australian OptIPortals
Covise, Phil Weber, Jurgen Schulze, Calit2
CGLX, Kai-Uwe Doerr , Calit2
http://www.calit2.net/newsroom/release.php?id=1421
January 15, 2008
No Calit2 Person Physically Flew to Australia to Bring This Up!
January 15, 2008
Victoria Premier, Senator Conroy, and
Australian Deputy Prime Minister Asking Questions
www.calit2.net/newsroom/release.php?id=1219
Using Qvidium Compressed HD ~ 140 Mbps
University of Melbourne Vice Chancellor Glyn Davis
in Calit2 Replies to Question from Australia
HD Talk to Australia’s Monash University from Calit2:
Reducing International Travel
July 31, 2008
Source: David Abramson, Monash Univ
Qvidium Compressed HD ~140 mbps
Today Dedicated 10Gbps Lightpaths Tie Together
State and Regional Fiber Infrastructure
NLR 40 x 10Gb Wavelengths
Expanding with Darkstrand to 80
Interconnects
Two Dozen
State and Regional
Optical Networks
Internet2 Dynamic
Circuit Network
Under Development
OptIPlanet Collaboratory Persistent Infrastructure
Between Calit2 and U Washington
Ginger
Armbrust’s
Diatoms:
Micrographs,
Chromosomes,
Genetic
Assembly
Photo Credit: Alan Decker Feb. 29, 2008
iHDTV: 1500 Mbits/sec Calit2 to
UW Research Channel
Over 10,000 Mbps
Pacific Wave/CENIC
Dedicated Optical Fiber
Advanced Telepresence Meeting
Using Digital Cinema 4k Streams
Keio University
President Anzai
UCSD
Chancellor Fox
Lays
Technical
Basis for
Global
Digital
Cinema
Sony
NTT
SGI
Streaming 4k
with JPEG
2000
Compression
½ Gbit/sec
100 Times
the Resolution
of YouTube!
Calit2@UCSD Auditorium
4k = 4000x2000 Pixels = 4xHD
CWave core PoP
10GE waves on NLR and CENIC (LA to SD)
Equinix
818 W. 7th St.
Los Angeles
PacificWave
1000 Denny Way
(Westin Bldg.)
Seattle
Level3
1360 Kifer Rd.
Sunnyvale
StarLight
Northwestern Univ
Chicago
Calit2
San Diego
McLean
CENIC Wave
Cisco Has Built 10 GigE Waves on CENIC, PW,
& NLR and Installed Large 6506 Switches for
Access Points in San Diego, Los Angeles,
Sunnyvale, Seattle, Chicago and McLean
for CineGrid Members
Some of These Points are also GLIF GOLEs
Source: John (JJ) Jamison, Cisco
Cisco CWave for CineGrid: A New Cyberinfrastructure
for High Resolution Media Streaming*
May 2007
*
2007
CineGrid @ Holland Festival 2007
As Seen in the Calit2@UCSD Auditorium Live!
Era la Notte, June 2007
First Tri-Continental Premier of
a Streamed 4K Feature Film With Global HD Discussion
San Paulo, Brazil Auditorium
Keio Univ., Japan Calit2@UCSD
4K Transmission Over 10Gbps--
4 HD Projections from One 4K Projector
4K Film Director,
Beto Souza
Source:
Sheldon Brown,
CRCA, Calit2
Toward a Data and Visualization Intensive
Working Environment Across Remote Sites
Calit2@ UCSD wall
Calit2@ UCI wall
NASA Ames Visit Feb. 29, 2008
HiPerVerse:
First ½ Gigapixel
Distributed
OptIPortal-
124 Tiles
Sept. 15, 2008
UCSD cluster: 15 x Quad core Dell XPS with Dual nVIDIA 5600s
UCI cluster: 25 x Dual Core Apple G5
Building a Mixed Virtual/Physical Working Space:
NASA Ames Adopts OptIPuter Collaboratory
Source: Falko Kuester, Calit2; Michael Sims, NASA
View from NASA Ames
Lunar Science Institute
Mountain View, CA
Virtual Handshake
LifeSize High Defn. Video
Integrated With
OptIPortal and
Spatialized Audio
From Start to
This Image in
Less Than 2 Weeks!
Feb 19, 2009
NASA Interest
in Supporting
Virtual Institutes
NASA
Astrobiology Institute
Is Next
Multi-User Global Workspace:
San Diego, Chicago, Saudi Arabia
Source: Tom DeFanti, KAUST Project, Calit2
EVL’s SAGE OptIPortal VisualCasting
Multi-Site OptIPuter Collaboratory
CENIC CalREN-XD Workshop Sept. 15, 2008
EVL-UI Chicago
U Michigan
Streaming 4k
Source: Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, EVL, UI Chicago
At Supercomputing 2008 Austin, Texas
November, 2008
SC08 Bandwidth Challenge Entry
Requires 10 Gbps Lightpath to Each Site
Total Aggregate VisualCasting Bandwidth for Nov. 18, 2008
Sustained 10,000-20,000 Mbps!
Academic Research “OptIPlatform” Cyberinfrastructure:
A 10Gbps Lightpath Cloud
National LambdaRail
Campus
Optical
Switch
Data
Repositories
& Clusters
HPC
HD/4k Video Images
HD/4k Video Cams
End User
OptIPortal
10G
Lightpaths
HD/4k Telepresence
Instruments
Cisco Vision: Mediating the Smart Building
Energy Dashboards, Demand Response, Fault Detection, Event Reporting, SmartGrid, etc.
Network as a Platform to Connect, Aggregate and Normalize
Open XML Interface
Source: Dave Clute, Cisco Connected Real Estate
Mediator
Switch
Router
Occupancy
Detectors
VAV
FCU
Heat
Pump
Chilled
Beam
Boilers
RTU
HVAC
Meters
Sub Meters
Refrigeration
Solar PV Trash
Compactor
Sprinkler
Fire Alarm
System
Smoke
Sensor
Sounder
Break
Glass
Lighting
Control
General
Lighting
DSI/DALI
Interface
Electrical EnergyWise
Filer
UPS
PDU
PFU
Sensor
CDU
Smart UPS
CRAC
Counter
DCC
Wireless
Meter
Real-Time Monitoring of Building Energy Usage:
UCSD Has 34 Buildings On-Line
http://mscada01.ucsd.edu/ion/
Comparision Between UCSD Buildings:
kW/sqFt Year Since 1/1/09
Calit2 and
CSE are
Very Energy
Intensive
Buildings
Power Management in Mixed Use Buildings:
The UCSD CSE Building is Energy Instrumented
• 500 Occupants, 750 Computers
• Detailed Instrumentation to Measure Macro and Micro-Scale Power Use
– 39 Sensor Pods, 156 Radios, 70 Circuits
– Subsystems: Air Conditioning & Lighting
• Conclusions:
– Peak Load is Twice Base Load
– 70% of Base Load is PCs
and Servers
– 90% of That Could Be Avoided!
Source: Rajesh Gupta,
CSE, Calit2
International Symposia on Green ICT:
Greening ICT and Applying ICT to Green Infrastructures
Calit2@UCSD
Webcasts Available at:
www.calit2.net/newsroom/article.php?id=1456
The Global ICT Carbon Footprint is
Roughly the Same as the Aviation Industry Today
www.smart2020.org
But ICT Emissions are Growing at 6% Annually!
the assumptions behind the growth in emissions expected in 2020:
• takes into account likely efficient technology developments
that affect the power consumption of products and services
• and their expected penetration in the market in 2020
Most of Growth is in
Developing Countries
Reduction of ICT Emissions is a Global Challenge –
U.S. and Canada are Small Sources
U.S. and Canada Together Fall From 25% to 14%
of Global ICT Emissions by 2020
www.smart2020.org
The Global ICT Carbon Footprint
by Subsector
www.smart2020.org
The Number of PCs (Desktops and Laptops)
Globally is Expected to Increase
from 592 Million in 2002
to More Than Four Billion in 2020
PCs Are Biggest
Problem
Data Centers Are
Rapidly Improving
Can We Reduce the Energy Used By PCs Via
Putting Machines To Sleep Transparently?
40
Peripheral
Laptop
Low power domain
Network
interface
Secondary
processor
Network
interface
Management
software
Main processor,
RAM, etc
IBM X60 Power Consumption
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
20
Sleep (S3) Somniloquy Baseline (Low
Power)
Normal
Power
Consumption
(Watts)
0.74W
(88 Hrs)
1.04W
(63 Hrs)
16W
(4.1 Hrs)
11.05W
(5.9 Hrs)
Somniloquy
Enables Servers
to Enter and Exit Sleep
While Maintaining
Their Network and
Application Level
Presence
Rajesh Gupta, UCSD CSE; Calit2
ICT Industry is Already Acting
to Reduce Carbon Footprint
Research Needed
on How to Deploy a Green CI
• Computer Architecture
– Rajesh Gupta/CSE
• Software Architecture, Clouds
– Amin Vahdat, Ingolf Kruger/CSE
• CineGrid Exchange
– Tom DeFanti/Calit2
• Visualization
– Falko Kuster/Structural Engineering
• Power and Thermal Management
– Tajana Rosing/CSE
• Analyzing Power Consumption
Data
– Jim Hollan/Cog Sci
• Direct DC Datacenters
– Tom Defanti, Greg Hidley
http://greenlight.calit2.net
MRI
The UCSD Center for Networked Systems:
A Calit2 Affiliated Center
Diverse Research
Projects
-Multiple Faculty
-Multiple Students
-Multidisciplinary
-CNS Research Theme
Research
Interests
Project
Proposals
Center Faculty
Member Companies
http://cns.ucsd.edu/
CNS and Cisco:
A History of Collaboration
• Cisco Acquires NetSift Corporation in 2006
– Co-founders: George Varghese and Sumeet Singh
• Exploring Technology Transfers Around Data Center
Networking and Cloud Computing (Vahdat)
• Ongoing Research Interactions with Varghese
• Cisco/IronPort Collaboration with Savage/Voelker
• Recent UCSD Cisco Hires:
– Varun Almaula
– Vina Ermagan
– Nelson Huang
– Alexander Loukissas
Source: Amin Vahdat, CNS UCSD
New Techniques for Dynamic Power and Thermal
Management to Reduce Energy Requirements
Dynamic Thermal Management (DTM)
• Workload Scheduling:
• Machine learning for Dynamic
Adaptation to get Best Temporal and
Spatial Profiles with Closed-Loop
Sensing
• Proactive Thermal Management
• Reduces Thermal Hot Spots by Average
60% with No Performance Overhead
Dynamic Power Management (DPM)
•Optimal DPM for a Class of Workloads
•Machine Learning to Adapt
• Select Among Specialized Policies
• Use Sensors and
Performance Counters to Monitor
• Multitasking/Within Task Adaptation
of Voltage and Frequency
• Measured Energy Savings of
Up to 70% per Device
NSF Project Greenlight
• Green Cyberinfrastructure in
Energy-Efficient Modular Facilities
• Closed-Loop Power &Thermal
Management
System Energy Efficiency Lab (seelab.ucsd.edu)
Prof. Tajana Šimunić Rosing, CSE, UCSD
CNS
Zero Carbon GreenLight Experiment:
DC-Powered Modular Data Center
• Concept—Avoid DC to AC to DC Conversion Losses
– Computers Use DC Power Internally
– Solar and Fuel Cells Produce DC
– Both Plug into the AC Power Grid
– Can We Use DC Directly (With or Without the AC Grid)?
• DC Generation Can Be Intermittent
– Depends on Source
– Solar, Wind, Fuel Cell, Hydro
– Can Use Sensors to Shut Down or Sleep Computers
– Can Use Virtualization to Halt/Shift Jobs
• Experiment Planning Just Starting
– Collaboration with Sun and LBNL
– NSF GreenLight Year 2 and Year 3 Funds
Source: Tom DeFanti, Calit2; GreenLight PI
Sun Box <200kWatt
UCSD is Installing Zero Carbon Emission
Solar and Fuel Cell DC Electricity Generators
San Diego’s Point Loma Wastewater
Treatment Plant Produces Waste Methane
UCSD 2.8 Megawatt
Fuel Cell Power Plant
Uses Methane
2 Megawatts of
Solar Power Cells
Being Installed
Available Late 2009
Use to Power
Local Data
Centers
Australia—the Zero Carbon Energy Future
Source: Geodynamics, Limited
Temperatures at 5 km.
After Budd et al. Australian
Geothermal Energy
Conference 2008
Placing a data centre at the zero
carbon energy source -- the cost of
fibre optic cable is ~5-10% the cost of
electricity transmission.
A Fiber/HVDC Smart Grid Flows
Both Bits and Electrons!
Coupling AARNet - CENIC/PW - CANARIE Optical Nets:
An Australian-U.S.-Canada Green Cloud Testbed
Toward Zero Carbon ICT
“It Will Be the Biggest Single Peacetime Project
Humankind Will Have Ever Undertaken”

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Introduction to Information and Communication Technology

Enhanced Telepresence and Green IT — The Next Evolution in the Internet

  • 1. Enhanced Telepresence and Green IT— The Next Evolution in the Internet Distinguished Research Lecture Cisco Research Center San Jose, CA September 24, 2009 Dr. Larry Smarr Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology Harry E. Gruber Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD Twitter: lsmarr
  • 2. The global Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industry produces GHGs equivalent to that produced by the aviation industry (~2-3 %). Furthermore, the ICT sector's emissions will nearly triple, in a business as usual scenario, from 2002 to 2020. On the other hand, the Climate Group estimates that transformative application of ICT to electricity grids, logistic chains, intelligent transportation and building infrastructure, and other social systems can reduce global GHG emissions by ~15%, five times ICT's own footprint! I will discuss three campus testbeds for exploring these complex tradeoffs. The first testbed is the NSF-funded GreenLight Project deployed at UCSD, which creates an instrumented data center allowing for detailed real time data measurements of the critical subcomponents and then making that data publically available on the web, so that the results can guide users who wish to lower the energy cost of computation and storage. The second testbed is the use of dedicated optical networks (operating at 10,000 Mbps) coupled to large tiled walls (with fractions of a billion pixels) and high definition (2 Mpixel/frame) or digital cinema (8Mpixel/frame) as "telepresence" systems for "sewing remote rooms together" as a way to reduce the need for transportation for national or global collaboration. Finally, I will analyze the use of campuses themselves, which are functionally small towns with their own power grids, commuter transportation systems, hospitals, and populations in the tens of thousands and so are at-scale Green IT Living Laboratories of the Greener Future.
  • 3. ICT Could be a Key Factor in Reducing the Rate of Climate Change Applications of ICT could enable emissions reductions of 15% of business-as-usual emissions. But it must keep its own growing footprint in check and overcome a number of hurdles if it expects to deliver on this potential. www.smart2020.org
  • 4. The Earth is Warming Over 100 Times Faster Today Than During the Last Ice Age Warming! CO2 Rose From 185 to 265ppm (80ppm) in 6000 years or 1.33 ppm per Century CO2 Has Risen From 335 to 385ppm (50ppm) in 30 years or 1.6 ppm per Year http://scrippsco2.ucsd.edu/program_history/keeling_curve_lessons.html Monnin, et al., Science v. 291 pp. 112-114, Jan. 5, 2001.
  • 5. Antarctic Ice Cores Show CO2 and Temperature Have Oscillated For 800,000 Years in a Narrow Range Vertical Range 170 to 300 ppm Ice Cores: Luthi, et al. Nature may 15, 2008 v. 453 pp379-82 Today 386- Homonid Images: The Last Human, G.J. Sawyer and V. Deak
  • 6. Ice Core Record Has Been Extended Using Plankton: Today’s CO2 is Higher Than in Last 2 Million Years! 350 400 450 500 550 Today’s CO2 Level Possible Level by 2100, Shell “Blueprints” Scenario CO2: Hönisch, et al. Science 19 June 2009 Vol. 324. pp. 1551 - 1554 Homonid Images: The Last Human, G.J. Sawyer and V. Deak
  • 7. We Are Transitioning to a New Climate State -- Unlike the Rapid Recovery with Acid Rain or Ozone Hole Susan Solomon, et al., PNAS 2/10/2009 v. 106 pp1704-9 Assumes CO2 Increases to a Maximum and Then Emissions Abruptly Stop Warming During the Industrial Age -- Last 200 Years Warming Persists for Over 1000 Years
  • 8. The IPCC Recommends a 25-40% Reduction Below 1990 Levels by 2020 • On September 27, 2006, Governor Schwarzenegger signed California the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 – Assembly Bill 32 (AB32) – Requires Reduction of GHG by 2020 Only to 1990 Levels – 10% Reduction from 2008 Levels; 30% from BAU 2020 Levels – 4 Tons of CO2-equiv. Reduction for Every Person in California! • The European Union Requires Reduction of GHG by 2020 to 20% Below 1990 Levels (12/12/2008) • Neither the U.S. or Canada has an Official Target Yet – President Obama Has Endorsed the AB32 2020 Goal
  • 9. ICT is a Critical Element in Achieving Countries Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Targets www.smart2020.org GeSI member companies: • Bell Canada, • British Telecomm., • Plc, • Cisco Systems, • Deutsche Telekom AG, • Ericsson, • France Telecom, • Hewlett-Packard, • Intel, • Microsoft, • Nokia, • Nokia Siemens Networks, • Sun Microsystems, • T-Mobile, • Telefónica S.A., • Telenor, • Verizon, • Vodafone Plc. Additional support: • Dell, LG.
  • 10. Application of ICT Can Lead to a 5-Fold Greater Decrease in GHGs Than its Own Carbon Footprint Major Opportunities for the United States* – Smart Electrical Grids – Smart Transportation Systems – Smart Buildings – Virtual Meetings * Smart 2020 United States Report Addendum www.smart2020.org While the sector plans to significantly step up the energy efficiency of its products and services, ICT’s largest influence will be by enabling energy efficiencies in other sectors, an opportunity that could deliver carbon savings five times larger than the total emissions from the entire ICT sector in 2020. --Smart 2020 Report
  • 11. Developing Greener Smart Campuses as Societal Prototypes: Calit2 (UCSD & UCI) • Travel Substitution – Commercial Teleconferencing – Polycom PC Client – LifeSize HD – Cisco Telepresence – Next Generation Global Telepresence • Coupling the Internet and the Electrical Grid – Choosing non-GHG Emitting Electricity Sources – Measuring Demand at Sub-Building Levels – Reducing Local Energy Usage via User Access Thru Web Student Video -- UCSD Living Laboratory for Real-World Solutions www.gogreentube.com/watch.php?v=NDc4OTQ1 on UCSD UCI Named ‘Best Overall' in Flex Your Power Awards www.today.uci.edu/news/release_detail.asp?key=1859
  • 12. Cisco on Cisco TelePresence Deployment  533 Cisco TelePresence major cities globally  US/Canada: 108 CTS 3000, 109 CTS 1000, 6 CTS 3200, 90 CTS 500, 3 CTS1300  APAC: 29 CTS 3000, 34 CTS 1000, 14 CTS 500, 3 CTS 3200, 1 CTS1300  Japan: 7 CTS 3000, 2 CTS 1000, 1 CTS 500, 1 CTS 3200, 1 CTS1300  Europe: 31 CTS 3000, 35 CTS 1000, 5 CTS3200, 27CTS500, 2 CTS1300  Emerging: 14 CTS 3000, 3 CTS1000, 1 CTS3200, 7 CTS 500 163 Major Cities in 45 countries  355K TelePresence meetings scheduled to date. (Weekly average utilization in the past 30 days is 21,522 meetings)  473K hours (average meeting is 1.25 hrs)  27K+ meetings with customers to discuss Cisco Technology over TelePresence  68K+ meetings avoided travel  Conservative estimate of cost savings and productivity improvement ~$296M to date  Metric tons of emissions saved:: 149,018  Equal to >25,000+ cars off the road •Overall average utilization 49% Changing the Way We Work, Live, Play and Learn Updated Aug 2,2009….145 weeks after launch •30K Multipoint mtgs •Average 3,919 in past 30 days Calit2 Will Have CTS 1000s at UCSD and UCI
  • 13. I Link Into Commercial H.323 Videoconfernces From My Laptop at Home UCSD Calit2 Director & Chief of Staff UCI Calit2 Director The Weekly Calit2 Director’s Meeting
  • 14. Work at Home is the Same As at the Office Virtual Kristen Kristen Prints Here For Amy Real Amy We Run Video Sykpe Continuously During Office Hours Kristen Reads My Email, Sets My Calendar. Works With Amy on My Trips
  • 15. Linking the Calit2 Auditoriums at UCSD and UCI with LifeSize HD for Shared Seminars September 8, 2009 Photo by Erik Jepsen, UC San Diego Sept. 8, 2009
  • 16. Global Innovation Centers are Being Connected with 10,000 Megabits/sec Clear Channel Lightpaths Source: Maxine Brown, UIC and Robert Patterson, NCSA Research on 100 Gbps and 1 Tbps
  • 17. Launch of the 100 Megapixel OzIPortal Kicked Off a Rapid Build Out of Australian OptIPortals Covise, Phil Weber, Jurgen Schulze, Calit2 CGLX, Kai-Uwe Doerr , Calit2 http://www.calit2.net/newsroom/release.php?id=1421 January 15, 2008 No Calit2 Person Physically Flew to Australia to Bring This Up! January 15, 2008
  • 18. Victoria Premier, Senator Conroy, and Australian Deputy Prime Minister Asking Questions www.calit2.net/newsroom/release.php?id=1219 Using Qvidium Compressed HD ~ 140 Mbps
  • 19. University of Melbourne Vice Chancellor Glyn Davis in Calit2 Replies to Question from Australia
  • 20. HD Talk to Australia’s Monash University from Calit2: Reducing International Travel July 31, 2008 Source: David Abramson, Monash Univ Qvidium Compressed HD ~140 mbps
  • 21. Today Dedicated 10Gbps Lightpaths Tie Together State and Regional Fiber Infrastructure NLR 40 x 10Gb Wavelengths Expanding with Darkstrand to 80 Interconnects Two Dozen State and Regional Optical Networks Internet2 Dynamic Circuit Network Under Development
  • 22. OptIPlanet Collaboratory Persistent Infrastructure Between Calit2 and U Washington Ginger Armbrust’s Diatoms: Micrographs, Chromosomes, Genetic Assembly Photo Credit: Alan Decker Feb. 29, 2008 iHDTV: 1500 Mbits/sec Calit2 to UW Research Channel Over 10,000 Mbps Pacific Wave/CENIC Dedicated Optical Fiber
  • 23. Advanced Telepresence Meeting Using Digital Cinema 4k Streams Keio University President Anzai UCSD Chancellor Fox Lays Technical Basis for Global Digital Cinema Sony NTT SGI Streaming 4k with JPEG 2000 Compression ½ Gbit/sec 100 Times the Resolution of YouTube! Calit2@UCSD Auditorium 4k = 4000x2000 Pixels = 4xHD
  • 24. CWave core PoP 10GE waves on NLR and CENIC (LA to SD) Equinix 818 W. 7th St. Los Angeles PacificWave 1000 Denny Way (Westin Bldg.) Seattle Level3 1360 Kifer Rd. Sunnyvale StarLight Northwestern Univ Chicago Calit2 San Diego McLean CENIC Wave Cisco Has Built 10 GigE Waves on CENIC, PW, & NLR and Installed Large 6506 Switches for Access Points in San Diego, Los Angeles, Sunnyvale, Seattle, Chicago and McLean for CineGrid Members Some of These Points are also GLIF GOLEs Source: John (JJ) Jamison, Cisco Cisco CWave for CineGrid: A New Cyberinfrastructure for High Resolution Media Streaming* May 2007 * 2007
  • 25. CineGrid @ Holland Festival 2007 As Seen in the Calit2@UCSD Auditorium Live! Era la Notte, June 2007
  • 26. First Tri-Continental Premier of a Streamed 4K Feature Film With Global HD Discussion San Paulo, Brazil Auditorium Keio Univ., Japan Calit2@UCSD 4K Transmission Over 10Gbps-- 4 HD Projections from One 4K Projector 4K Film Director, Beto Souza Source: Sheldon Brown, CRCA, Calit2
  • 27. Toward a Data and Visualization Intensive Working Environment Across Remote Sites Calit2@ UCSD wall Calit2@ UCI wall NASA Ames Visit Feb. 29, 2008 HiPerVerse: First ½ Gigapixel Distributed OptIPortal- 124 Tiles Sept. 15, 2008 UCSD cluster: 15 x Quad core Dell XPS with Dual nVIDIA 5600s UCI cluster: 25 x Dual Core Apple G5
  • 28. Building a Mixed Virtual/Physical Working Space: NASA Ames Adopts OptIPuter Collaboratory Source: Falko Kuester, Calit2; Michael Sims, NASA View from NASA Ames Lunar Science Institute Mountain View, CA Virtual Handshake LifeSize High Defn. Video Integrated With OptIPortal and Spatialized Audio From Start to This Image in Less Than 2 Weeks! Feb 19, 2009 NASA Interest in Supporting Virtual Institutes NASA Astrobiology Institute Is Next
  • 29. Multi-User Global Workspace: San Diego, Chicago, Saudi Arabia Source: Tom DeFanti, KAUST Project, Calit2
  • 30. EVL’s SAGE OptIPortal VisualCasting Multi-Site OptIPuter Collaboratory CENIC CalREN-XD Workshop Sept. 15, 2008 EVL-UI Chicago U Michigan Streaming 4k Source: Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, EVL, UI Chicago At Supercomputing 2008 Austin, Texas November, 2008 SC08 Bandwidth Challenge Entry Requires 10 Gbps Lightpath to Each Site Total Aggregate VisualCasting Bandwidth for Nov. 18, 2008 Sustained 10,000-20,000 Mbps!
  • 31. Academic Research “OptIPlatform” Cyberinfrastructure: A 10Gbps Lightpath Cloud National LambdaRail Campus Optical Switch Data Repositories & Clusters HPC HD/4k Video Images HD/4k Video Cams End User OptIPortal 10G Lightpaths HD/4k Telepresence Instruments
  • 32. Cisco Vision: Mediating the Smart Building Energy Dashboards, Demand Response, Fault Detection, Event Reporting, SmartGrid, etc. Network as a Platform to Connect, Aggregate and Normalize Open XML Interface Source: Dave Clute, Cisco Connected Real Estate Mediator Switch Router Occupancy Detectors VAV FCU Heat Pump Chilled Beam Boilers RTU HVAC Meters Sub Meters Refrigeration Solar PV Trash Compactor Sprinkler Fire Alarm System Smoke Sensor Sounder Break Glass Lighting Control General Lighting DSI/DALI Interface Electrical EnergyWise Filer UPS PDU PFU Sensor CDU Smart UPS CRAC Counter DCC Wireless Meter
  • 33. Real-Time Monitoring of Building Energy Usage: UCSD Has 34 Buildings On-Line http://mscada01.ucsd.edu/ion/
  • 34. Comparision Between UCSD Buildings: kW/sqFt Year Since 1/1/09 Calit2 and CSE are Very Energy Intensive Buildings
  • 35. Power Management in Mixed Use Buildings: The UCSD CSE Building is Energy Instrumented • 500 Occupants, 750 Computers • Detailed Instrumentation to Measure Macro and Micro-Scale Power Use – 39 Sensor Pods, 156 Radios, 70 Circuits – Subsystems: Air Conditioning & Lighting • Conclusions: – Peak Load is Twice Base Load – 70% of Base Load is PCs and Servers – 90% of That Could Be Avoided! Source: Rajesh Gupta, CSE, Calit2
  • 36. International Symposia on Green ICT: Greening ICT and Applying ICT to Green Infrastructures Calit2@UCSD Webcasts Available at: www.calit2.net/newsroom/article.php?id=1456
  • 37. The Global ICT Carbon Footprint is Roughly the Same as the Aviation Industry Today www.smart2020.org But ICT Emissions are Growing at 6% Annually! the assumptions behind the growth in emissions expected in 2020: • takes into account likely efficient technology developments that affect the power consumption of products and services • and their expected penetration in the market in 2020 Most of Growth is in Developing Countries
  • 38. Reduction of ICT Emissions is a Global Challenge – U.S. and Canada are Small Sources U.S. and Canada Together Fall From 25% to 14% of Global ICT Emissions by 2020 www.smart2020.org
  • 39. The Global ICT Carbon Footprint by Subsector www.smart2020.org The Number of PCs (Desktops and Laptops) Globally is Expected to Increase from 592 Million in 2002 to More Than Four Billion in 2020 PCs Are Biggest Problem Data Centers Are Rapidly Improving
  • 40. Can We Reduce the Energy Used By PCs Via Putting Machines To Sleep Transparently? 40 Peripheral Laptop Low power domain Network interface Secondary processor Network interface Management software Main processor, RAM, etc IBM X60 Power Consumption 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 Sleep (S3) Somniloquy Baseline (Low Power) Normal Power Consumption (Watts) 0.74W (88 Hrs) 1.04W (63 Hrs) 16W (4.1 Hrs) 11.05W (5.9 Hrs) Somniloquy Enables Servers to Enter and Exit Sleep While Maintaining Their Network and Application Level Presence Rajesh Gupta, UCSD CSE; Calit2
  • 41. ICT Industry is Already Acting to Reduce Carbon Footprint
  • 42. Research Needed on How to Deploy a Green CI • Computer Architecture – Rajesh Gupta/CSE • Software Architecture, Clouds – Amin Vahdat, Ingolf Kruger/CSE • CineGrid Exchange – Tom DeFanti/Calit2 • Visualization – Falko Kuster/Structural Engineering • Power and Thermal Management – Tajana Rosing/CSE • Analyzing Power Consumption Data – Jim Hollan/Cog Sci • Direct DC Datacenters – Tom Defanti, Greg Hidley http://greenlight.calit2.net MRI
  • 43. The UCSD Center for Networked Systems: A Calit2 Affiliated Center Diverse Research Projects -Multiple Faculty -Multiple Students -Multidisciplinary -CNS Research Theme Research Interests Project Proposals Center Faculty Member Companies http://cns.ucsd.edu/
  • 44. CNS and Cisco: A History of Collaboration • Cisco Acquires NetSift Corporation in 2006 – Co-founders: George Varghese and Sumeet Singh • Exploring Technology Transfers Around Data Center Networking and Cloud Computing (Vahdat) • Ongoing Research Interactions with Varghese • Cisco/IronPort Collaboration with Savage/Voelker • Recent UCSD Cisco Hires: – Varun Almaula – Vina Ermagan – Nelson Huang – Alexander Loukissas Source: Amin Vahdat, CNS UCSD
  • 45. New Techniques for Dynamic Power and Thermal Management to Reduce Energy Requirements Dynamic Thermal Management (DTM) • Workload Scheduling: • Machine learning for Dynamic Adaptation to get Best Temporal and Spatial Profiles with Closed-Loop Sensing • Proactive Thermal Management • Reduces Thermal Hot Spots by Average 60% with No Performance Overhead Dynamic Power Management (DPM) •Optimal DPM for a Class of Workloads •Machine Learning to Adapt • Select Among Specialized Policies • Use Sensors and Performance Counters to Monitor • Multitasking/Within Task Adaptation of Voltage and Frequency • Measured Energy Savings of Up to 70% per Device NSF Project Greenlight • Green Cyberinfrastructure in Energy-Efficient Modular Facilities • Closed-Loop Power &Thermal Management System Energy Efficiency Lab (seelab.ucsd.edu) Prof. Tajana Šimunić Rosing, CSE, UCSD CNS
  • 46. Zero Carbon GreenLight Experiment: DC-Powered Modular Data Center • Concept—Avoid DC to AC to DC Conversion Losses – Computers Use DC Power Internally – Solar and Fuel Cells Produce DC – Both Plug into the AC Power Grid – Can We Use DC Directly (With or Without the AC Grid)? • DC Generation Can Be Intermittent – Depends on Source – Solar, Wind, Fuel Cell, Hydro – Can Use Sensors to Shut Down or Sleep Computers – Can Use Virtualization to Halt/Shift Jobs • Experiment Planning Just Starting – Collaboration with Sun and LBNL – NSF GreenLight Year 2 and Year 3 Funds Source: Tom DeFanti, Calit2; GreenLight PI Sun Box <200kWatt
  • 47. UCSD is Installing Zero Carbon Emission Solar and Fuel Cell DC Electricity Generators San Diego’s Point Loma Wastewater Treatment Plant Produces Waste Methane UCSD 2.8 Megawatt Fuel Cell Power Plant Uses Methane 2 Megawatts of Solar Power Cells Being Installed Available Late 2009 Use to Power Local Data Centers
  • 48. Australia—the Zero Carbon Energy Future Source: Geodynamics, Limited Temperatures at 5 km. After Budd et al. Australian Geothermal Energy Conference 2008 Placing a data centre at the zero carbon energy source -- the cost of fibre optic cable is ~5-10% the cost of electricity transmission. A Fiber/HVDC Smart Grid Flows Both Bits and Electrons!
  • 49. Coupling AARNet - CENIC/PW - CANARIE Optical Nets: An Australian-U.S.-Canada Green Cloud Testbed Toward Zero Carbon ICT
  • 50. “It Will Be the Biggest Single Peacetime Project Humankind Will Have Ever Undertaken”