4° International Workshop on Energy-Efficient Data Centres
E²DC 2015 July 14th Bangalore (India)

Co-located with the ACM e-Energy 2015, the Sixth International Conference on Future Energy Systems (e-Energy 2015)

KEYNOTE: Amod Ranade, General Manager Data Center Business Development at Schneider Electric.

Title: The Pervasive Data Center and the Elusive Negawatt

Amod Ranade is General Manager – Data Center Business Development at Schneider Electric. He focuses on business development of the Data Center portfolio from Schneider Electric.

He comes with a rich experience in Data Center offerings having held Product/Program management positions for Site and Facilities Services at IBM India. He was involved in driving various Programs for Data Center infrastructure services offerings; in different stages of the Data Center infrastructure lifecycle (Design, Build, Assessment & Audits).

Amod also comes with a strong background with respect to Data Center technologies with respect to Power, Cooling and Management software having held Product Management positions in APC by Schneider Electric for Data Center Solutions. He has also managed Data Center related product lines (Racks and Power distribution systems, High Density cooling systems, etc).

Amod is an MBA and an Engineering graduate from University of Pune.

One challenge of society is to reach the United Nation’s max 2°C-climate change goal, which means to reduce at least 80% of anthropogenic CO2 emissions. With an increasing share of global industry’s carbon footprint data centres have a high responsibility towards this goal. Innovations like new efficient and energy proportional server generations, energy-aware workload management, or highly responsive data center designs have contributed to slowing down the formerly sharp increase of data centres’ energy demand. However, the ongoing global digitization is counteracting this development. E2DC offers the opportunity for researchers of all data centre domains to commonly advance the potential of yet unknown innovations in order to continue the race for sustainability in and by data centers.

Call for Paper

Program

April 20, 2015

Notification of acceptance

May 15, 2015

Submission of camera-ready papers

Workshop July 14th, 2015

in Bangalore (India)

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E2DC Workshop Program 2015

4° INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON ENERGY-EFFICIENT DATA CENTRES

E2DC 2015 JULY 14TH BANGALORE (INDIA)

Program schedule (preliminary)

9:00 – 9:15
Registration

9:15 – 9:45
Opening Address and Introduction
Titel: DC4Cities – ADAPT BEING ADAPTED
Speaker: Sonja Klingert (University of Mannheim)

9:45 – 10:45
Keynote
Titel: The Pervasive Data Center and the Elusive Negawatt.
Speaker: Amod Ranade, General Manager Data Center Business Development at Schneider Electric

10:45 – 11:00
Coffee Break

11:00 – 13:00
Session 1 – Environmental and Innovative Perspectives for Data Centers

Session Chair: Sonja Klingert
- 11:00 – 11:10 Environmental and Innovative Perspectives for Data Centers
Research Talks
- 11:10 – 11:40 Data Center Energy Efficiency Standards in India: Preliminary Findings from a Global Review; Sanyukta Raje et al.
- 11:40 – 12:10 Increasing Data Centre Renewable Power Share via Intelligent Smart City Power Control; Florian Niedermeier et al.
- 12:10 – 12:40 Next Generation Data Centers Business Models Enabling Multi Resource Integration for Smart City Optimized Energy Efficiency; Massimo Bertoncini et al.
- 12:40 – 13:00 Sum Up and Joint Discussion

13:00 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 16:00
Session 2 – Modeling of Data Centers, Infrastructure and System Behavior
Session Chair: Prof. Dr. Hermann de Meer

14:00 – 14:10 Modeling of Data Centers, Infrastructure and System Behavior

Research Talk
- 14:10 – 14:40 Modeling impact of power- and thermal-aware fans management on data center energy consumption; Wojciech Piątek et al.
- 14:40 – 15:10 GEYSER – A Data Centre Energy Simulation Prototype enabling future Hardware in the Loop Testing; Marco Cupelli et al.
- 15:10 – 15:40 Energy-Minimal Scheduling of Divisible Loads; Agrawal Pragati and
- 15:40 – 16:00 Sum Up and Joint Discussion

16:00 – 16:15
Coffee Break

16:15 – 17:15
Panel chair: Gunnar Schomaker

Topic: What drives the Data Centre Community?
From Business to Research and Back – Is there a place left for sustainability?

Participants: Hermann de Meer (University Passau), Oche Ejembi (University of St Andrews), Amod Ranade (Schneider Electric), Shivkumar Kalyanaraman (IBM Research), Anand Sivasubramaniam (Tata Consultancy Services), Tridib Mukherjee (Xerox)

17:15 – 17:30
Closing of the Workshop

Download the Program: 20150701_E2DCProgram 2015_06

Registration and Organization

The workshop will be co-located with ACM e-Energy 2015 in Bangalore, India. Therefore the registration will be done by the conference – please register here: Registration. You will find more local information here: Local Information. The organizers reserve the right to exclude a paper from publication if it is not presented. For more information please contact klingert@informatik.uni-mannheim.de.