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 2018 workshop is to study innovative methods to improve efficiency and sustainability of data centres - important and ever growing source of energy consumption.

7th International Workshop on Energy Efficient Data Centres
Importantly, E2DC concentrates on a broader context of data centre ecosystem by investigation of interactions with other data centres, 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. This year, in addition to these general workshop topics, we would like to discuss the future trends of data centre development, especially their architectures and location. We would like to discuss whether a majority of data centres will be concentrated in large colocation data centres and public clouds or if (and how) smaller systems can be integrated with existing infrastructure (e.g. buildings, homes, wind power plants, etc.).
Important Dates
March 21st , 2018
Paper submission
April 11th , 2018
Notification of acceptance
May 7th , 2018
Submission of camera-ready papers
Call for Papers
The workshop invites original papers of up to 6 pages that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics include, but are not limited to:
- 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)
- 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
- Methods to improve uptake of energy efficient solutions in data centers,
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 centers
Submission and publication of the work
The workshop will be co-located with ACM eEnergy 2018 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) or Björn Postema (b.f.postema at utwente.nl).

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Title: The 4 Es of Edge Data Centers
Speaker: Jon Summers (Scientific Leader in Data Centres, Research Institutes of Sweden, Swedish Institute of Computer Science (RISE SICS) North)
Abstract: For more than 10 years the data center sector has been improving its End use Energy demand in the face of unprecedented growth by using metrics that focus not on Efficiency, but Effectiveness. The trend to centralise processing and data into the cloud, which does offer most the Economy of scale, is developing a data center ecosystem that is centralised around megascale core data centers. However, the elements (humans and machines) that interact with these large scale data centers are distributed and more and more require data to be everywhere and in particular nearby. In a parody of the Vs of Big Data, this presentation will make use of as many technical and scientific facts as possible to reflect on the potential Es of Edge of network data centers, which may become the Effective Economic Energy-Efficient Exergetic infrastructure of the future.
Title: Sustainability and innovative settlements of future data centers
Speaker: Gunnar Schomaker (SICP - Software Innovation Campus Paderborn, Vice Managing Director)
E2DC WORKSHOP PROGRAM 2018
Registration: FZI House of Living Labs (HoLL) (Haid-und-Neu-Straße 5a, Karlsruhe) - Event Hall (Upper Floor)
Workshop: FZI Main Building (Haid-und-Neu-Straße 10-14, Karlsruhe) – Room Tokyo (Ground Floor)
9:00 - 9:15
Registration & welcome
9:15 - 10:00
Keynote
Title: The 4 Es of Edge Data CentersSpeaker: Jon Summers (Scientific Leader in Data Centres, Research Institutes of Sweden, Swedish Institute of Computer Science (RISE SICS) North)
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
10:30 - 12:30
Session 1
Session Chair: Boudewijn R. Haverkort
- Demand-Response Power Management Strategy Using Time Shifting Capabilities
Christian Tipantuña, Xavier Hesselbach (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) - Fitting Realistic Data Centre Workloads
Björn F. Postema, Niels J. Geuze, Boudewijn R. Haverkort (University of Twente) -
Minimising energy costs of data centers using high density heterogeneous systems and intelligent
resource management
Ariel Oleksiak, Tomasz Ciesielczyk, Michal Kierzynka, Wojciech Piatek (Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center) -
A demonstration of monitoring and measuring data centers for energy efficiency using opensource
tools
Jonas Gustafsson, Sebastian Fredriksson, Magnus Nilsson-Maki, Daniel Olsson, Jeffrey Sarkinen (RISE SICS North); Henrik Niska (Lition AB); Nicolas Seyvet (OP5); Tor Bjorn Minde, Jon Summers (RISE SICS North) - Mapping Data Centre Business Types with Power Management Strategies to Identify Demand Response
Candidates
Sonja Klingert (University of Mannheim)
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 14:30
Keynote
Title: Sustainability and innovative settlements of future data centersSpeaker: Gunnar Schomaker (SICP - Software Innovation Campus Paderborn, Vice Managing Director)
14:30 - 15:20
Session 2
Session Chair: Xavier Hesselbach
- Modelling and Analysing Conservative Governor of DVFS-enabled Processors
Robert Basmadjian, Hermann de Meer (University of Passau) - SeDuCe: Toward a testbed for research on thermal and power management in datacenters
Jonathan Pastor, Jean Marc Menaud (IMT Atlantique)
15:20-15:30
Workshop wrap-up
15:30-16:00
Coffee break
16:00 - 18:00
Visit at the Steinbuch Center for Computing
(Registration for the HPC tour will be on-site at the registration desk. Please remember to bring your ID/Passport)Workshop Chairs
Ariel Oleksiak
Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland
Gunnar Schomaker
Software Innovation Campus Paderborn, Germany
Björn Postema
University of Twente, Netherlands
Technical Programme Committee
Hermann de Meer
University of Passau, Germany
Sonja Klingert
University of Mannheim, Germany
Boudewijn Haverkort
University of Twente, the Netherlands
Nigel Thomas
Newcastle University, United Kingdom
Evgenia Smirni
College of William and Mary, United States of America
Chuan Wu
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Hongyang Sun
Vanderbilt University, United States of America
Jean-Marc Pierson
University of Toulouse,
France
Georges Da Costa
University of Toulouse, France
Xavier Hesselbach-Serra
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Barbara Pernici
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Monica Vitali
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Contact
Ariel Oleksiak (ariel at man.poznan.pl)
Gunnar Schomaker (schomaker at sicp.de)
Björn Postema (b.f.postema at utwente.nl)