Updating IT Infrastructure: Reducing Energy Consumption and Enhancing Data Flow to Researchers

更新 IT 基础设施：减少能源消耗并增强研究人员的数据流

• 批准号: 0963204
• 负责人: Mark Serreze
• 金额: $ 52.5万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-07-15 至 2013-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0963204&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Updating; Infrastructure; Reducing; Energy; Consumption

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).While cryospheric research at National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) documents evidence of climate change, it is ironic that the carbon footprint of its computing systems is large. NSIDC is installing an energy-efficient, carbon footprint reduction upgrade to its research computing facility that includes reconfiguring the layout of its computer equipment; replacing conventional air conditioners with indirect evaporative cooling systems; installing a roof mounted solar power array; and upgrading connectivity to the Internet.The upgraded facility positively impacts NSIDC's scientists conducting cryospheric research; assures the flow of critical data to hundreds of off-site scientists; expands NSIDC's IT systems reliability and ability to provide internet web services such as rapid data browse and online data analysis. It also illustrates several ways how similar data centers can reduce carbon footprints and sustain the cyberinfrastructure critical to future scientific activities.NSIDC's scientists are working on NSF, NASA, and NOAA funded research addressing the Earth's cryosphere - its snow and sea ice cover, permafrost, glaciers and ice sheets - both as a key indicator and as a driver of climate change. Science questions include: why is the Arctic's sea ice cover shrinking at a faster rate than expected; how will Arctic warming affect the permafrost and could warming lead to release of carbon presently stored in these frozen soils; and how is the Antarctic ice sheet changing?Several local partners join NSIDC in this effort. An undergraduate engineering research project is evaluating this energy conservation project and will develop a website to make monitoring and design support data available to the public. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is co-authoring a technical report, to distribute the concept to other data centers across the country.

该奖项是根据2009年《美国回收与再投资法》（公法111-5）进行的，而国家雪与冰数据中心（NSIDC）的Cryosperic研究证明了气候变化的证据，具有讽刺意味的是，其计算系统的碳足迹很大。 NSIDC正在为其研究计算设施安装节能的碳足迹升级，其中包括重新配置其计算机设备的布局；用间接蒸发冷却系统代替常规空调；安装屋顶安装的太阳能阵列；并将连通性升级到互联网。升级的设施对NSIDC的科学家进行了严格的研究。确保数百名非现场科学家的关键数据流动；扩展NSIDC的IT系统可靠性和提供Internet Web服务的能力，例如快速数据浏览和在线数据分析。 It also illustrates several ways how similar data centers can reduce carbon footprints and sustain the cyberinfrastructure critical to future scientific activities.NSIDC's scientists are working on NSF, NASA, and NOAA funded research addressing the Earth's cryosphere - its snow and sea ice cover, permafrost, glaciers and ice sheets - both as a key indicator and as a driver of climate change. 科学问题包括：为什么北极的海冰覆盖速度比预期的要快地缩小；北极变暖将如何影响多年冻土，并可能导致目前存储在这些冷冻土壤中的碳的释放；南极冰盖如何变化？几个当地合作伙伴加入了NSIDC。 一个本科工程研究项目正在评估该节能项目，并将开发一个网站，以使监视和设计支持数据可向公众使用。 国家可再生能源实验室（NREL）正在共同撰写一份技术报告，以将该概念分发给全国其他数据中心。