NSF Workshop on Sustainable Data Centers

NSF 可持续数据中心研讨会

• 批准号: 1523304
• 负责人: Thomas Wenisch
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-04-01 至 2016-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1523304&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Workshop; Sustainable; Data; Centers; NSF; Workshop; Sustainable; Data; Centers

Data centers are the core of modern business environments as computation has been rapidly moving into the cloud in the last decade. Data centers are among the fastest growing users of electricity in the U.S. consuming an estimated 91 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in 2013, about 2% of the total electricity consumed by the US. It is essential that data centers be operated effectively to improve energy efficiency and environmental sustainability. Due to aggressive adoption of cloud-based computing, the demands on data centers are growing rapidly, and both academia and industry will need to rethink how data centers are designed, built, and operated to be sustainable. This award will support the organization of a workshop to bring together industry practitioners, academic researchers, and government stakeholders to discuss the vision, challenges, and opportunities for sustainable data center research for the next 5-10 years. The research agenda of the workshop has the potential for broad and transformative impact on the US and beyond by finding new ways to make better use of energy and natural resources in the nation's computing infrastructure. Furthermore, the workshop will engage early career scholars and those from diverse backgrounds and underrepresented groups to connect them with a broad community of academic and industrial researchers interested in data center sustainability.

数据中心是现代业务环境的核心，因为在过去的十年中，计算一直迅速进入云。数据中心是美国增长最快的电力用户之一，估计在2013年消耗了910亿千瓦时的电力，约占美国消耗的总电量的2％。重要的是，必须有效地操作数据中心，以提高能源效率和环境可持续性。由于对基于云的计算的积极采用，对数据中心的需求正在迅速增长，学术界和行业都需要重新考虑如何设计，构建和操作数据中心以实现可持续性。该奖项将支持一个研讨会的组织，以召集行业从业人员，学术研究人员和政府利益相关者，讨论未来5 - 10年可持续数据中心研究的愿景，挑战和机会。研讨会的研究议程有可能通过寻找新的方法来更好地利用国家计算基础设施中的能源和自然资源来对美国及其他地区产生广泛和变革的影响。此外，该研讨会将与早期的职业学者以及来自不同背景和代表性不足的团体的学者与他们与对数据中心可持续性感兴趣的广泛学术和工业研究人员建立联系。