Energy efficient data centres

Data centres are the core of future industrial and customer services, especially taking into account a fast development of clouds, mobile applications, Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques. Consequently data centres energy efficiency and sustainability has becone a major research, business and societal problem. To address this problem the main goal of the E²DC 2020 workshop is to study innovative methods to improve efficiency and sustainability of data centres - important and ever growing source of energy consumption.

8^th International Workshop on Energy Efficient Data Centres (E²DC 2020)

The main goal of the E²DC workshop is to study innovative methods to improve efficiency and sustainability of data centres - important and ever growing group of energy consumers. Importantly, E²DC concentrates on a broader context of data centre ecosystem by investigation of interactions with smart cities and smart grids. Hence, the workshop discusses topics such as the use of renewable energy, optimisation of cooling and heat re-use, demand response techniques, federation of distributed data centres and many more. At E²DC 2020, we would like to discuss how emerging AI technologies can help in improvements of DCs efficiency, reliability, and their interaction with external dynamically growing systems such as smart cities, smart grids, heat re-use networks, renewable energy sources, and edge computing systems.

Call for Papers

The workshop invites original papers of up to 8 pages that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics include, but are not limited to:

1. New architectures of the whole data centre ecosystems to cope with dynamic demands and requirements of large data processing:
   • New architectures and management methods for distributed data centres, edge data centres, fog computing
   • Novel approaches for data centric processing (computations closer to data)
   • Integration of data centres into existing infrastructure and facilities (e.g. buildings, wind plants and other novel locations)
   • Data centre integration with smart cities, smart grids and renewable energy sources
2. Achieving energy efficiency by the innovative use of new hardware and software technologies, e.g.:
   • Microservers, low power CPUs, embedded SoCs, modular DCs
   • Methods to facilitate the use of hardware accelerators at large scale, the use and integration of heterogeneous systems
   • Virtualization and service architectures, containers, lightweight virtualization, microservices
   • Novel cooling approaches, direct liquid cooling, heat re-use, thermal storage
3. Methods to improve uptake of energy efficient solutions in data centres, incentives that increase focus on energy efficiency and reduction of emissions:
   • New business models and programs to make the use of energy efficient technologies profitable
   • Metrics beyond PUE
   • Green and energy-related SLAs
   • Engaging end users in limiting energy consumption and carbon footprint
   • Other incentives leading to increased adoption of energy efficient technologies in data centres
4. Applications of AI:
   • Prediction of load in data centers
   • The use of AI techniques for prediction of temperatures and energy consumption of DCs
   • Automated anomaly detection and predictive maintenance
   • Optimization of flexibility offers for demand response programs
   • Multi-criteria selection of configuration for trade-off between performance, efficiency, and gains from interaction with other stakeholders (e.g. smart grids, heat operators, consumers of heat, etc.)

Submission and publication of the work

Important notice!
In light of the Covid-19 outbreak, the organising committee of the ACM e-Energy 2020 conference, in conjunction with the steering committee and ACM has decided to run the entire conference virtually. All the connection details will be provided soon.

The workshop will be co-located with ACM eEnergy 2020 Please submit your manuscript via submission portal. Manuscripts will be published in the ACM proceedings and must adhere to ACM format. Submission implies the willingness of at least one author to register and present the paper at E²DC. The organizers reserve the right to exclude a paper from publication if it is not presented. For more information please contact Ariel Oleksiak (ariel at man.poznan.pl), Gunnar Schomaker (schomaker at sicp.de)

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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E²DC WORKSHOP PROGRAM 2020

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Contact

Ariel Oleksiak (ariel at man.poznan.pl)
Gunnar Schomaker (schomaker at sicp.de)