Project GreenLight: Optimizing Cyberinfrastructure for a Carbon Constrained World
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The document discusses Project Greenlight, which aims to optimize cyberinfrastructure in light of climate change challenges by using innovative ICT applications to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It highlights the ICT sector's carbon footprint, the potential for emissions reductions through smarter technologies, and the role of various testbed campuses in exploring energy-efficient strategies. Key opportunities include developing smart electrical grids, transportation systems, and buildings to drive down emissions beyond the sector's own interactions.
Project GreenLight: Optimizing Cyberinfrastructure for a Carbon Constrained World
- 1. Project GreenLight: Optimizing Cyberinfrastructure for a Carbon Constrained World Keynote Talk for the Joint 33rd IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference COMPSAC 2009 and the 9th Annual International Symposium on Applications and the Internet SAINT 2009 Seattle, WA July 21, 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
- 2. Abstract This year marks a turning point in the debate on global climate change in which the focus is rapidly moving from a scientific analysis of how human activity effects climate change to a political process on how best to regulate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. 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 two campus testbeds for exploring these complex tradeoffs. The NSF-funded GreenLight Project (http://greenlight.calit2.net), deployed at UCSD, creates an instrumented data center which allows 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 testbeds are the UCSD and UCI 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 testbeds. Calit2 is working with campus administration, faculty and staff to instrument these campuses as Living Laboratories of the Green Future.
- 3. ICT is a Key Sector in the Fight Against Climate Change Applications of ICT could enable emissions reductions of 7.8 Gt CO2e in 2020, or 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 Planet is Already Committed to a Dangerous Level of Warming Temperature Threshold Range Earth Has Only Realized that Initiates the Climate-Tipping 1/3 of the Committed Warming - Future Emissions of Greenhouse Gases Move Peak to the Right Additional Warming over 1750 Level V. Ramanathan and Y. Feng, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD September 23, 2008 www.pnas.orgcgidoi10.1073pnas.0803838105
- 5. Arctic Summer Ice is Rapidly Decreasing “The Arctic Ocean will be effectively ice free sometime between 2020 and 2040, although it is possible it could happen as early as 2013.” --Walt Meier, Research Scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Centre at the University of Colorado http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10213891-54.html
- 6. The Hindu Kush/Himalayan Plateau Has the Most Snow and Ice Outside of the Polar Regions “Water Towers of Asia” Impact 40% of the World’s Population
- 7. Antarctic Ice Cores Show CO2 and Temperature Oscillations Over Last 800,000 Years Vertical Range 170 to 300 ppm Luthi, et al. Nature may 15, 2008 v. 453 pp379-82
- 8. The Earth is Warming 200 Times Faster Today Than During the Last Ice Age Warming! http://scrippsco2.ucsd.edu/program_history/keeling_curve_lessons.html CO2 Rose From CO2 Has Risen From 185 to 265ppm (80ppm) 335 to 385ppm (50ppm) in 6000 years or in 20 years or 1.33 ppm per Century 2.5 ppm per Year
- 9. CO2 Emissions From Energy in an Aggressive CO2 Emission Reduction Scenario www-static.shell.com/static/public/downloads/brochures/corporate_pkg/scenarios/shell_energy_scenarios_2050.pdf China and India resisted signing up for a global goal of halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.—Reuters July 8, 2009 China India Estimated CO2 Level in 2100 is 550ppm
- 10. Ice Core Record Has Been Extended Using Plankton: Today’s CO2 is Higher Than in Last 2 Million Years! Hönisch, et al. Science Science 19 June 2009 Vol. 324. pp. 1551 - 1554 550 Possible Level by 2100 500 450 400 Today’s CO2 Level 350
- 11. 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 Persists for Over 1000 Years Warming During the Industrial Age -- Last 200 Years
- 12. “It Will Be the Biggest Single Peacetime Project Humankind Will Have Ever Undertaken”
- 13. ICT is a Critical Element in Achieving Countries Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Targets 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, www.smart2020.org • Verizon, • Vodafone Plc. Additional support: • Dell, LG.
- 14. The Global ICT Carbon Footprint is Roughly the Same as the Aviation Industry Today But ICT Emissions are Growing at 6% Annually! Most of Growth is in Developing Countries 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 www.smart2020.org
- 15. 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
- 16. The Global ICT Carbon Footprint by Subsector 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 Data Centers Are Problem Rapidly Improving www.smart2020.org
- 17. Can We Make Laptops More Energy Efficient? This is a System Level Concern • Requires Coordinated Strategies Across Processing, Communications and Networking • 6-10X Variation in Power from Sleep to Various Active Modes – Even Larger Variation in Radio Power, TX/RX Ratio Peripherals Processing Display Programmable ASICs Disk µPs & DSPs (apps, protocols etc.) Memory DC-DC Converter Battery Radio RF Modem Transceiver Power Supply Communication Source: Rajesh Gupta, UCSD CSE; Calit2
- 18. Resource Coordination Can Lead to Energy Efficiencies • Coordinated Processing Can Improve Efficiency – Use Secondary Processor to Shutdown Main Processor • Coordinating Radios Can: – Improve Efficiency (Spectral, Energy) – Use Radios to Page Other Radios, – Coordinate Radio Duty Cycles – Dynamically Match Radios to Range &Traffic – Use for Improving Performance, Reliability, Security Bluetooth Wi-Fi Driven by Accurate and Timely Sensor Data WiFi BT Active WiFi BT Active WiFi WiFi Active WiFi That Push Sniff Active PSM Active the Available Slack to Thermal Limits 5.8 mW 81 mW 264 mW 990 mW Source: Rajesh Gupta, UCSD CSE; Calit2
- 19. Algorithmically, Two Ways to Save Power Through Choice of Right System & Device States • Shutdown – Multiple Sleep States – Also Known as Dynamic Power Management (DPM) • Slowdown – Multiple Active States – Also Known as Dynamic Voltage/Frequency Scaling (DVS) • DPM + DVS – Choice Between Amount of Slowdown and Shutdown Source: Rajesh Gupta, UCSD CSE; Calit2
- 20. Increasing Laptop Energy Efficiency: Putting Machines To Sleep Transparently Rajesh Gupta, UCSD CSE; Calit2 Network interface Secondary Network processor interface Management software Low power domain Main processor, Peripheral RAM, etc IBM X60 Power Consumption Laptop Power Consumption (Watts) 20 16W 18 (4.1 Hrs) Somniloquy 16 11.05W Enables Servers 14 (5.9 Hrs) to Enter and Exit Sleep 12 10 While Maintaining 8 Their Network and 6 Application Level 0.74W 1.04W 4 (88 Hrs) (63 Hrs) Presence 2 0 Sleep (S3) Somniloquy Baseline (Low 20 Normal Power)
- 21. ICT Industry is Already Acting to Reduce Carbon Footprint
- 22. Electricity Usage by U.S. Data Centers: Emission Reductions are Underway Source: Silicon Valley Leadership Group Report July 29, 2008 https://microsite.accenture.com/svlgreport/Documents/pdf/S
- 23. The NSF-Funded GreenLight Project Giving Users Greener Compute and Storage Options UCSD Structural Engineering Dept. Conducted Sun MD Tests May 2007 • Measure and Control Energy Usage: – Sun Has Shown up to 40% Reduction in Energy – Active Management of Disks, CPUs, etc. – Measures Temperature at 5 Levels in 8 Racks – Power Utilization in Each of the 8 Racks – Chilled Water Cooling Systems UCSD (Calit2 & SOM) Source: Tom DeFanti, Calit2; Bought Two Sun MDs GreenLight PI May 2008
- 24. The GreenLight Project: Instrumenting the Energy Cost of Computational Science • Focus on 5 Communities with At-Scale Computing Needs: – Metagenomics – Ocean Observing – Microscopy – Bioinformatics – Digital Media • Measure, Monitor, & Web Publish Real-Time Sensor Outputs – Via Service-oriented Architectures – Allow Researchers Anywhere To Study Computing Energy Cost – Enable Scientists To Explore Tactics For Maximizing Work/Watt • Develop Middleware that Automates Optimal Choice of Compute/RAM Power Strategies for Desired Greenness • Partnering With Minority-Serving Institutions Cyberinfrastructure Empowerment Coalition Source: Tom DeFanti, Calit2; GreenLight PI
- 25. Research Needed on How to Deploy a Green CI MRI • Computer Architecture – Rajesh Gupta/CSE • Software Architecture – 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
- 26. Virtualization at Cluster Level for Consolidation and Energy Efficiency Source: Amin Vadhat, CSE, UCSD • Fault Isolation and Software Heterogeneity, Need to Provision for Peak Leads to: – Severe Under-Utilization – Inflexible Configuration – High Energy Utilization Original Service • Usher / DieCast enable: Usher – Consolidation onto Smaller Footprint of Physical Machines – Factor of 10+ Reduction in Machine Resources and Energy Consumption Virtualized Service
- 27. New Techniques for Dynamic Power and Thermal Management to Reduce Energy Requirements NSF Project Greenlight • Green Cyberinfrastructure in Energy-Efficient Modular Facilities • Closed-Loop Power &Thermal Management Dynamic Power Management (DPM) Dynamic Thermal Management (DTM) • Optimal DPM for a Class of Workloads • Workload Scheduling: • Machine Learning to Adapt • Machine learning for Dynamic • Select Among Specialized Policies Adaptation to get Best Temporal and • Use Sensors and Spatial Profiles with Closed-Loop Performance Counters to Monitor Sensing • Multitasking/Within Task Adaptation • Proactive Thermal Management of Voltage and Frequency • Reduces Thermal Hot Spots by Average • Measured Energy Savings of 60% with No Performance Overhead Up to 70% per Device System Energy Efficiency Lab (seelab.ucsd.edu) Prof. Tajana Šimunić Rosing, CSE, UCSD
- 28. Energy Efficiency by Exploiting Parallelism at the Processor Level • Multiprocessing as in Multiple Cores that can be Shutdown or Slowdown Based on Workloads • Co-Processing that uses Specialized Functional Units for a Given Application • The Challenge in Co-Processing is the Hand-Crafting that is Needed in Building such Machines – Application-Specific Co-Processor Constructed from Work-Load Analysis – The Co-Processor is Able to Keep up with the Host Processor in Exploiting Fine-Grain Parallel Execution Opportunities Source: Rajesh Gupta, UCSD CSE; Calit2
- 29. Improve Mass Spectrometry’s Green Efficiency By Matching Algorithms to Specialized Processors • Inspect Implements the Very Computationally Intense MS-Alignment Algorithm for Discovery of Unanticipated Rare or Uncharacterized Post- Translational Modifications • Solution: Hardware Acceleration with a FPGA-Based Co-Processor – Identification and Characterization of Key Kernel for MS-Alignment Algorithm – Hardware Implementation of Kernel on Novel FPGA-based Co-Processor (Convey Architecture) • Results: – 300x Speedup & Increased Computational Efficiency Large Savings in Energy Per Application Task
- 30. GreenLight Provides a Environment for Innovative “Greener” Products to be Tested Quadrics Was Designed to Use 20% and 80% Less Power per Port Than Other Products in the 10 GigE Market www.calit2.net/newsroom/article.php?id=1482
- 31. UCSD is Installing Zero Carbon Emission Solar and Fuel Cell DC Electricity Generators San Diego’s Point Loma Wastewater UCSD 2.8 Megawatt Available Late 2009 Treatment Plant Produces Waste Methane Fuel Cell Power Plant Uses Methane 2 Megawatts of Solar Power Cells Being Installed
- 32. 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 Sun Box <200kWatt – 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
- 33. Toward “Zero Carbon” ICT Green Cloud Computing and Storage • Purchasing Green Power Locally is Expensive with Significant Transmission Line Losses – Demand for Green Power Within Cities is Growing Dramatically – ICT Facilities Don’t Need To Be Located In Cities • But Most Renewable Energy Sites are Very Remote and Impractical to Connect to Electrical Grid – Can be Easily Reached by an Optical Network – Provide Independence from Electrical Utility – Savings in Transmission Line Losses (Up To 15% Alone) – Plus Carbon Offsets Can Pay for Moving ICT Facilities to Renewable Energy Site • Calit2 is Discussing Partnering with Canada – Move a GreenLight Facility to Hydro Site in British Columbia – Link by 10Gbps Optical Fiber to Calit2—Offer to Remote Users Source: Bill St. Arnaud, CANARIE, Canada
- 34. Application of ICT Can Lead to a 5-Fold Greater Decrease in GHGs Than its Own Carbon Footprint 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 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
- 35. Applying ICT – The Smart 2020 Opportunity for Reducing GHG Emissions by 7.8 GtCO2e www.smart2020.org Smart Buildings Smart Electrical Grid Recall Total ICT 2020 Emissions are 1.43 GtCO2e
- 36. Next Stage: Developing Greener Smart Campuses Calit2 (UCSD & UCI) Prototypes • 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 • Transportation System – Campus Wireless GPS Low Carbon Fleet – Green Software Automobile Innovations – Driver Level Cell Phone Traffic Awareness • Travel Substitution – Commercial Teleconferencing – Next Generation Global Telepresence 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
- 37. International Symposia on Green ICT: Greening ICT and Applying ICT to Green Infrastructures Webcasts Available at: www.calit2.net/newsroom/article.php?id=1456 Calit2@UCSD