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4nd CANARIE GSN Assessment Visit January 17th, 2012 Mohamed Cheriet, GSN PL École de technologie supérieure, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Laboratory for Multimedia Communication in Telepresence The GreenStar Network Map 2 (1) Resources Human Resources, Equipment & Finance all have been completed: Budget: At the 8/8 (100%) periods way from the project start, 99.45% of money has been spent, which is an excellent ratio. 3 3 Budget Status 4 4 (2) Project Timeline The project schedule is on track: Period P8 5 5 (3) Deliverables Phase I: Statement of Work Deliverables (SoW) Deliverable P I: Shipped initial node assemblies P I: Software tools Installed P I: Datacenter renewable energy powered nodes operational Extent completed (%) Comments 100% 100% 100% P I: Backyard renewable energy powered nodes operational 100% P I: Protocol committee trained 100% 6 6 (3) Deliverables, Cont’d Phase II: Statement of Work Deliverables (SoW) Deliverable P II: Provider pages on V-Infrastructures for each domain P II: Virtual Infrastructure spanning across the domains Extent completed (%) Comments 100% 100% 100% 5/5 = (Cybera+CRC+ETS+RF+HEAnet)/ (Cybera+CRC+ETS+RF+HEAnet) P II: Protocol draft 100% Protocol Draft provided. Excellent progress. P II: Protocol reviewed by community 100% P II: GeoChronos relocated 100% P II: Installed PDU and Power Meters GeoChronos was running Uptime more than 90%. at RackForce. 7 7 (3) Deliverables, Cont’d Phase III: Statement of Work Deliverables (SoW) Deliverable P III: OCCI Service Implementation 100% P III: NSI Service Implementation 100% P III: Follow the renewable energy management tool 100% P III: OpenSource plugin for remote measurements P III: Validated protocol on CSA CleanProjects Registry P III: Collected data from GHG reduction project P III: Certified VERR P III: Sellable Carbon Credit P III: Guide for creating GHG reduction projects Comments Extent completed (%) - The controller is ready. Its optimization is the next step. 100% - It was completed when we released version GSN v1.0.0. 100% - Protocol tool 100% 100% 0% - Dr. M Gell’s verification. - Not in this project because of carbon market. 100% 8 8 (3) Deliverables, Cont’d Phase IV: Statement of Work Deliverables (SoW) Deliverable Extent completed (%) Comments P IV: Predictive Model for VM migrations (Performance and analysis of operation/migration of virtual machines) 100% - One paper published: F. Farrahi Moghaddam and M. Cheriet (ICNSC’10). P IV: Moving Virtual Routers Performance Analysis (Network and routing performance analysis) 100% P IV: Quality of service model for moving services (Optimizing cost/energy usage in scheduling/migrating virtual machines) P IV: Guide for design & operation of green nodes in GSN - Several papers have been submitted. 100% - One paper published: F. Farrahi Moghaddam and M. Cheriet (CLOUD’11). - Two other papers from ETS: SmartGrid’10 and GRES’10. - Two papers from GRC: ISSST’11 and Sustalnet’11. 100% 9 9 (3) Deliverables, Cont’d GSN Website VM http://www.greenstarnetwork.com GSN VMs are running over GSN OpenFlow-based Network. 10 10 (4) Opensource Licensing of GSN Opensource licensing: On behalf of CANARIE and GSN, ETS has moved forward with the Apache 2.0 licence for the GSN Software: Simple and efficient. ETS formal internal processes: • A standard invention disclosure form. • Listing all individual contributors and obtaining their signatures. Formal Approval of all contributors: ETS, CRC, Inocybe and iDeal Middleware is now public and available at: http://www.github.com/synchromedia/OpenGSN 11 11 (5) Communications & Dissemination Invited Talks and Medias M. Cheriet. 12 (5mn) spots on Radio Canada : ICT Pollution, January 13, 2012. M. Cheriet. Greening ICT and Greening through ICT, Innovation 2011, Canada’s R&D Partnership Conference, Montreal, November 20-22, 2011. M. Cheriet. Green Sustainable Cloud & IT Service Network, PIMRC 2011 PANEL, September 14th, 2011. M. Cheriet. Testbed Collaborations, Green Star Network, CANADA-EU THEMATIC MEETING, JSTCC ICT, October 3-4, 2011. 12 12 (5) Communications, Cont’d Published and accepted Journal papers M. Lemay, K.-K. Nguyen, B. St. Arnaud and M. Cheriet. Convergence of Cloud Computing and Network Virtualization: Towards a Neutral Carbon Network. IEEE Internet Computing, 2011. J. Wu, J. Y. Zhang and M. Savoie, Lightpath Scheduling and Routing for Green Data Centres, In Telecommunication Systems - Special Issue on Green Telecommunications (In press), 2011. K.-K Nguyen, M. Lemay and M. Cheriet. Enabling Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) on IP Networks. From Distributed to Virtualized Control Plane, IEEE Communications Magazine (In press), 2011. 13 13 (5) Communications, Cont’d Published and accepted Journal papers, Cont’d W. Van Heddeghem, W. Vereecken, D. Colle, M. Pickavet and P. Demeester, Distributed Computing for Footprint Reduction by Exploiting Low-Footprint Energy Availability, Future Generation Computer Systems, Green Computing special issue, Volume 28, Issue 2, Pages 405-414, February 2012. C. Despins, F. Labeau, R. Labelle, M. Cheriet, C. Thibeault, F. Gagnon, A. Leon-Garcia, O. Cherkaoui, B. St. Arnaud, J. McNeill, Y. Lemieux, M. Lemay, Leveraging Green Communications for Carbon Emission Reductions: Techniques, Testbeds and Emerging Carbon Footprint Standards, IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 49, no. 8, August 2011, pp. 101-109. 14 14 (5) Communications, Cont’d Published and accepted Journal papers, Cont’d P. Steenhof, C. Weber, M. Brooks, J. Spence, R. Robinson, B. Fry, R. Simmonds, C. Kiddle, D. Aikema, M. Savoie, B. Ho, M. Lemay, M. Cheriet and J. Fung. A Protocol for Quantifying the Carbon Reductions Achieved Through the Provision of Low or Zero Carbon ICT Services. Accepted in Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems, 2011. Submitted Journal papers K.-K. Nguyen, M. Cheriet, M. Lemay, V. Reijs, A. Mackarel and A. Pastrama. Environmental-Aware Virtual Data Center Network. Submitted to Journal of Computer Networks, 2011. Nguyen K.-K, Cheriet M., Lemay M., Kiddle C., Optimizing Outsourced Green Data Center Network, Submitted to ACM Computer 15 Communication Review. 15 (5) Communications, Cont’d Submitted Journal papers, Cont’d P. Steenhof, C. Weber, D. Aikema, R. Robinson, R. Simmonds and C. Kiddle. Estimating Emission Reductions from Low Carbon Information Technology: The GeoChronos Relocation Project. Submitted to Energy Policy, 2011. Published and accepted Chapters K.-K. Nguyen, A. Daouadji, M. Cheriet and M. Lemay. Resource Discovery and Allocation in Low Carbon Grid Networks. Book chapter: Communication and Security in Smart Grids, Auerbach Publications (In press), Taylor & Francis Group, CRC, 2011. 16 16 (5) Communications, Cont’d Conference Papers Piet Demeester, a keynote speech at DRCN 2011 (October 10-12, Krakow, Poland) with some slides about the follow the wind/follow the sun concept. Submitted Conference Papers J. Wu, J. Zhang and M. Savoie. Scheduling Data Centre Connectivity for a Better Use of Green Energy. Submitted to the IEEE International Conference on Communications, Optical Networks and Systems Symposium, 2012. 17 17 Carbon Protocol & GeoChronos Relocation Reporting 18 The ICT GHG Reduction Project Protocol Purpose of Protocol: Establish a credible procedure for quantifying energy and emission reductions from Green ICT “projects”, with outcomes verifiable by third party Development Process Developed using core group of experts from industry, government, academia Solicited input from an external committee of technical experts Tested according to a “real world” case study “Operationalized” through development of online documentation tool 19 19 Protocol Applicability The protocol is applicable to the following project activities: • Type 1: Project activities involving improvements to ICT facilities Two use cases – increasing energy efficiency and use of low/zero carbon source energy • Type 2: Project activities involving improvements to ICT services Six use cases related to different aspects of using BAT, virtualization, consolidation, or cloud computing 20 20 Quantifying energy and emission reductions Energy and emission reductions are simply the difference between the project (P) and the baseline May seem simple, but some key challenges….! • Ensuring “functional equivalence” between the project and the baseline • Establishing what the baseline scenario is • For the possibility of obtaining carbon credits, demonstrating the additionality of the project 21 21 GHG Project Guide Readers: ICT corporate decision makers Purpose: facilitate decision to use Protocol Co-written by CSA & iDeal Publicly available at www.ghgregistries.ca and GSN website Two levels of detail: introductory intermediate 22 GHG Project Guide Summary, Cont’d Your carbon reduction activities consist of changing the implementation of your ICT service or facility. Carbon emitted by ICT services and facilities is primarily due to consumed power. Multiplying the consumed power by the carbon intensity of the power source gives the carbon emissions. You will formalize your carbon reduction activities into a GHG reduction project. Your project covers a period of operation of your new ICT implementation – typically measured in years. The project does not include the carbon emitted during the construction of your improved ICT implementation; it covers only the carbon saved during its operation. You will create one, and possibly two, documents: The GHG Report will be prepared at the end of your project; it presents calculation of the carbon reduction. When required, the Project Validation Report will be ready at the beginning of your project; it describes how the measurements and estimations will be carried out. The carbon reduction achieved by your project may be sold in a carbon market (if verified), or used in corporate sustainability reporting. In either case the calculated reduction is considered bona fide. In the case you are intending to sell you carbon reductions, your GHG report will be audited by an independent external verifier. Verification may also be desirable for corporate sustainability reporting. If you are selling the reductions, then your new ICT implementation must be additional, meaning that you go beyond typical business as usual solutions for carbon reduction. 23 GHG Project Guide Summary, Cont’d Your calculated carbon reduction does not reflect any carbon-producing deficiencies of your old (i.e. pre-project) ICT implementation. Instead, it compares carbon emissions of your new implementation to a hypothetical baseline implementation. The baseline describes what your old implementation would have been like if the equipment and were upgraded to standard industry solutions at the time of project start. The product produced by ICT is characterized as workload. Measurement units of workload will depend on the details of your project. Your project activities will include measurement of critical quantities, including the power consumed and perhaps the workload experienced by your new implementation. Based on these measurements, perhaps as well as manufacturers’ information, industry publications, and additional measurements, you will estimate the carbon emissions of your new implementation during the project’s duration, and you will estimate the carbon emissions that the hypothetical baseline would have produced during this same time period under the same workload. The difference between these two is your project’s carbon reduction. Your measurements and estimations will be conservative, meaning that you err on the low side for the baseline and on the high side for the project. This results in a conservative estimate of your carbon reduction, erring on the low side. 24 The GeoChronos Relocation Project Case Study At the University of Calgary datacenter, GeoChronos used (as of December 2010) the following hardware systems: • A set of compute nodes that run VM’s performing different tasks • A file server to serve VM images • A file server to serve data via NFS. Project involved moving applications virtually to servers at a new efficient datacenter with near zero carbon source energy Results of implementation: 2.412 tonnes (2,412.63 kg) of CO2e over the 13 week project. 25 25 The ICT GHG Reduction Project Calculator and Documentation Tool Tool purpose: • 1) Generating a report on potentially verifiable emission reductions that can be registered, verified, serialized and brought to market • 2) Generating a report suitable for use in Corporate Sustainability Reporting Tool includes the following; • Online project documentation and calculation tool based on the requirements of the Protocol • A process for project reports to be submitted to CSA CleanProjects registry • Provision of necessary key guidance documents Online at http://icttool.ghgregistries.ca/index.cfm 26 26 Potential commercial impact of protocol/tool Provides foundational guidance on estimating and reporting the emission impacts of low or zero carbon ICT services Provides important knowledge base for future research and development: • Development of standards and/or certification system specific to quantifying energy savings (useable for incentives programs, for example) • Preparation of additional guidance on application of the protocol in specific ICT subsectors and case studies • Carbon neutral program developed specific to datacenters • Certification of a carbon neutral ICT service • Bringing the Protocol to ISO 27 27 Final GSN Infrastructure deployment 28 GSN infrastructure update Core GSN Nodes • Firmware update was applied to the Raritan PDUs at the Calgary and RF GSN Nodes to deal with accessibility issues • GeoChronos relocation activity was successfully completed and the application is now running again at the GRC as of the 20th of October Extended GSN Nodes • Reconfiguration of the network architecture in Ireland to implement the European GSN Hub and support the GSN Federated Cloud Use Case • GbE connection established between the Arista switch at ETS and the CANARIE Montreal Juniper MX480 router to enable access to a logical router by Mantychore in support of the GSN Federated Cloud Use Case CRC VMware Cluster • The CRC VMware cluster in the BADLAB is now hosting IaaS Containers as a means to reduce the loading on the ets3 server. A VM image for the CRC Middleware Container was successfully converted and has been assigned IP address <10.20.99.157> 29 GSN Infrastructure WG Update Challenges Asymmetrical throughput on LP between RF and the GRC • Problem isolated to leg between Kelowna and Vancouver (TCP retransmits causing periodic sawtooth pattern throughput) • Tests carried out by Shaw cleared their fibre plant • RF to replace transceivers in Kelowna and Vancouver however this can’t be completed until after the 31st of December due to one particular customer requesting no interruption of service before that date Outdoor Enclosure Operational Issues • The Switch, Server and PDU were relocated from the CRC Enclosure to the BADLAB . The CRC GSN Node is fully operational again using green power from the CRC SPS when available. Connectivity to International GSN Nodes • The three VLANs from HEAnet that were mapped to three STS circuits across CANARIE have been reconfigured into one VLAN mapping to one STS circuit across CANARIE using VLAN ID 158 • LP-5 to HEAnet and LP-8 to NORDUnet connecting nodes from HEAnet and NORDUnet to the GSN Hub in Montreal will be re-arranged to terminate on the CANARIE Montréal Juniper MX480 Router 30 GSN Infrastructure – Network Link and servers to be decommissioned 31 GSN Infrastructure – Hardware deployed Link and servers to be decommissioned 32 GSN Federated Cloud L3 Network Architecture Canadian GSN Hub European GSN Hub 33 GSN Node Document Readers: Green ICT researchers Purpose: design rationale & lessons learned Co-authored by CRC & iDeal 34 Middleware WG 35 Middleware Highlights Five Resources • PDU (Raritan and Servertech), Climate (Raritan), Host(Libvirt), Power Source (Outback Mate) and Facility Resources Three Managers • Cloud, Facility and Network Managers One Controller GSN Cloud Features: • • • • Manage complete VM lifecycle Monitor facility power use, power generation and environment VM live migration over geographically distributed datacenters Follow the Sun/Follow the Wind – Optimize distribution of VMs according to availability of intermittently available green power • VM High Availability • Export VM images between GSN Clouds • GSN Resource Management Center User Interface 36 Architecture 37 Final Deployment Two GSN Clouds deployed 1. Canadian GSN Cloud 2. European GSN Cloud Only one node deployed in EU Cloud at HEAnet – GD5 • This is the European Hub node Using a Virtual Facility to use simulated power data Everything is in place for a complete handoff to European Partners to complete the full deployment 38 Canadian GSN Deployment 39 European GSN Deployment 40 Future Deployment (logical deployment) 41 Towards GSN 2.0 GSN 2.0 will be the 2nd major release of the GSN middleware which is implemented using IaaS 2.0 – Minimizes the amount of information needed to keep in memory and thus will allow the middleware container to run longer with less resource constraints – Solve connectivity/reconnect issues to devices • If the connection to the device times out or fails, the middleware won’t hang • Maintains better state of resources and can disseminate this information if needed by other components • Better messaging for communication between components (Rabbit MQ) • Potential for redundancy and higher failure tolerance – IaaS 2.0 uses the Akka Framework and Erlang Migration ~95% complete and along with testing and verification will be the main focus of the GSN Extension 42 OpenFlow Deployment 43 OpenFlow Value Add Enables dynamic control of network resource allocation With OpenFlow, the cloud control software can set the network policies on the switch(es) to match the policies/SLA for the VMs without human intervention • This allows us to build a combined server/storage/network scheduler that can optimize the VM placement based on configured policies Tenant isolation using flow spaces Optimization of network flows between applications Ability to develop/enhance network protocols for Green IT 44 GSN Topology in the Nox Controller 45 OpenStack Moving towards inter cloud federation Use Delta cloud API to federation the GSN cloud with many commercial and open clouds Deployed at ETS @ http://207.162.8.40:8000 This work will be continued in the project extension period 46 OpenStack Dashboard at ETS 47 Demos 1. Export a VM image to the European GSN Cloud • Export will cross IP domains 2. High Availability • Trigger a failure on a server and watch how the cloud recovers 48 Demo 1 – Export to EU GSN (animation) Export VM Canadian GSN Domain European GSN Domain Cloud Manager Cloud Manager Host Resource Network Manager • Shudown VM • Copy Image VM Notify EU Cloud Manager Dynamically Configure IP Tunnel Host Resource • Update VM Context • Start VM Mantychore2 VM 49 Demo 2 – High Availability (HA) Hosts continually report back to their Libvirt resource by renewing a lease This tells the Libvirt resource that the Host is healthy and reachable If the lease expires, the Libvirt resource will trigger an HA Event to the Cloud Manager The Cloud Manager will then start the VMs from the troubled host on another stable host The restart is equivalent to a cold reboot of your computer 50 Associate Partners WG 51 GSN Associate Partners WG Follow the wind/follow the sun: Mantychore collaboration - Development and implementation GSN infrastructure and middleware towards cross-domain integration of the Canadian and EU GSN hubs and nodes. - Provision of solar & wind renewal power metrics for GSN simulation research Note: Mantychore has made a request for continued access to CANARIE infrastructure and Canadian GSN nodes for the duration of 2012, for execution of additional EU GSN test case demonstrations using a robust version of IaaS GSN v.2.O software. 52 52 GSN Associate Partners WG GeoChronos relocation: GreenLight Collaboration - Under the leadership of GRC and GSN Research WG a series of power measurements of VM migration experiments were conducted with GSN corporate partner Rack Force and Cybera and associate partner calit2 geenlight project. (http://greenlight.calit2.net). GSN Protocol Final External Critical Review: “ICT GHG Reduction Protocol: Quantification and Reporting.” - Members of the GSN Technical Advisory Group, Yeves Lemieux (Ericsson), Dr. David Wright (University of Ottawa), Stephan Wehr (The Delphi Group) Jerry Sheehan (University of Southern California) and John Smiciklas (Research in Motion) provided their final critical review of ICT GHG Reduction Protocol: Quantification and Reporting. 53 53 GSN Associate Partners WG: Acknowledgment GSN's significance was greatly enhanced by a large group of national and international associate partners, each of whom measurably enhanced the project. Ericsson Canada Inc.: Location: Montreal, Quebec Participant: Yves Lemieux Contribution: Member of the Protocol Technical Advisory Group, Netvirt research project. Research In Motion: Location: Waterloo, Ontario Participant: John Smiciklas Contribution: Member of the GSN Protocol Technical Advisory Group University Of Ottawa Location: Ottawa, Ontario Participant: Prof David Wright. Telfer School Of Management Contribution: Member of the Protocol Technical Advisory Group The Delphi Group Location: Ottawa, Ontario Participant: Stephan Wehr Contribution: Member of the GSN Protocol Technical Advisory Group 54 54 GSN Associate Partners WG: Acknowledgment European Union Mantychore Project HEAnet: Location: Dublin Ireland Participants: Victor Reijs, Andrew Mackarel Contribution: GSN Associate Partner WG, GSN EU hub, one wind node and two solar powered nodes, and provision of solar and wind renewal power metrics for GSN simulation research ONLINE VC CONNECTION to HEAnet (Andrew Mackarel) NORDUnet: Location: Kastrup, Denmark Participant: Alin Pastrama Contribution: Associate Partner WG, geothermal GSN node located in Reykjavik, Iceland i2cat: Location: Barcelona Spain Participants: Sergi Figuerola, Pau Minoves Contribution: Associate Partner WG, solar powered GSN node 55 55 GSN Associate Partners WG: Acknowledgment Xanfeon Ltd: Location: Suffolk United Kingdom Participant: Dr. Michael Gell Contribution: Independent and expert analysis and validation of GSN’s “ICT Greenhouse Gas Reduction Project Protocol: Quantification and Reporting”. Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology (IBBT ) Location: Ghent-Ledeberg , Belgium Participants: Ward Van Heddeghem , Brecht Vermeulen, Didier Colle Contribution: research publications on green networks including GSN 56 56 GSN Associate Partners WG: Acknowledgment USA: California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (calit2) Location: San Diago, California Participants: Larry Smarr, Jerry Sheehan, Tom Defanti, Greg Hidley, Claudiu Farcas, Chris Misleh, Brian Dunne. Contribution: 2 GSN nodes, member of the GSN Protocol Technical Advisory Group, GSN/GreenLight (http://greenlight.calit2.net) collaborative research with GSN on power measurements of VM migration. Northwestern University NUIT: Location: Chicago Illinois Participant: Joe Mambretti, Director Contribution: Member of Associate Partner Working Group China: Shanghai Research Center for Wireless Communications (WiCO) Location: Shanghai China Participants: Gary Wang, Ge Xiao Guang, Yves WANG, Yang Yang, Kun Wei Contribution: GSN solar powered node, VIP presentation of GSN network between Canada and China demonstration. 57 57 Research WG 58 GSN Research WG Update Publications over course of whole project (Jan 2010 to Dec 2011) - 13 publications accepted and/or published including 4 journal papers, 7 conference papers and 2 book chapters (status change to accepted and/or published for 3 papers since Sept 2011) - 5 publications currently in submission including 4 journal papers and 1 conference paper (4 papers submitted since Sept 2011) - paper topics range from resource discovery to cost aware scheduling to migration performance to the carbon protocol and GeoChronos relocation and more Research highlights since September 2011 Continuation of research project with international partner - collaboration between GRC, RackForce, Cybera and UCalIT/GreenLight - aimed at examining energy consumed in migrating virtual machines under different conditions - many experiments have been run between GreenLight, Rackforce and Cybera GSN nodes - aim to publish a paper on results early this year Continued development of GSN controller and simulator - work being carried out by CRC, ETS and ideal Consulting - follow the sun/wind controller makes decisions on how/when to best migrate virtual machines - simulator is aimed at evaluating the controller under various scenarios and parameters - initial Web-based front end for simulator has now been developed - currently working on GSN controller publication with plans to submit early this year 59 59 The GSN Simulator • Objective: to overcome the size and stability limitations of physical GSN network; study the relationships between many GSN dynamics and the implications on node sizing, node placement, etc. • Virtual solar facilities are modeled closely after physical nodes; virtual facilities get loaded from file system when simulation starts • It is easy to tweak the virtual GSN network’s topology, size, time zone offset between nodes, nodes’ battery capacity, op-hour values, and even swap controller algorithms, and compare results from different simulation setups, for example: America/Edmonton CyberaA, Cfull, [2, 4] CyberaB, Cfull, [2,4] America/NewYork America/Vancouver CRC, 200, [2,4] VancouverA, Cfull, [2, 4] vs. ETS VancouverB, Cfull, [2,4] America/Halifax Halifax, 200, [2,4] ETS ( Cfull is battery full capacity, and [2,4] represents op-hours ) 60 GSN Simulator Webapp • • • • To provide researchers with a Google map view of simulation setups, and allow them to tweak virtual facilities and overall setup via GUI Simulations are run on the web server; when finished the researcher will get an email, with simulation results in the main body and the detailed virtual GSN system log as an attachment Being built towards a social site, where researchers can share simulation templates, view other people’s activities and results, and study follow the sun/wind concept as a community Please visit sun-wind.badlab.crc.ca for the latest development! 61 Current: Real-Time “Green Inter-Cloud” Simulator Cloud reader Real-time Cloud map World map maker Power reader Video maker Home page updater GUI tools Wind simulator User VPC reader Database Real-time Map Data collector [Farrahi2011] Carbon Model optimizer Controller [Farrahi2011] Archived Video Simulated VPC (CloudNet [Wood2011]) [Farrahi2011] VPN VPN DC #1 DC #3 Power simulator DC #2 Power simulator Power simulator 62 Future: Real-Time “Green Inter-Cloud” Implementation Cloud reader Real-time Cloud map World map maker Power reader Video maker Home page updater GUI tools Wind reader GICloud reader User Database Real-time wind data Real-time Map Data collector [Farrahi2011] Machine Learning module Cost Model Carbon Model optimizer Controller [Farrahi2011] Archived Video GICloud implementaion (Enhanced with [Farrahi2010]) VPN VPN DC #1 DC #3 DC #2 63 GSN Project Continuation 64 GSN Maintenance Extension • • Partners – ETS – CRC – Inocybe – Cybera Key Deliverables – Evolve GSN Middleware from Version 2.0.0.A to 2.0.0.RC1 by testing and improving documentation. (No new features) – Long Term Usage Profiling (1 Month Data) – Limitations Profiling (Latency, Size, etc.) – Joint collaborative space with International partners 65 EcoloTIC Project • • • Description – Provincially funded project on GreenICT led by Ericsson, providing a fully populated Telco Blade System (24 nodes) to build a cloud for production use in R&D. Partners – ETS, CIRAIG, Inocybe, Ericsson Canada, Canarie (?) Themes – – – – Virtualization and Resource Management Network as a Service over WAN Optimization and Intelligence Carbon Lifecycle Assessment 66 Future Directions • • North Plan – Part of Quebec Digital Economy Plan – Upcoming Discussions with HydroQuebec – Already was shown and mentioned to Quebec Ministers. Additional Future Themes – – – – Cognitive Management High Scalability (Thousands of managed nodes) Lowest latency via non blocking switch fabric Dynamic Flow Optimizations using OpenFlow 67 GSN version 2.0.0 Alpha Sneak-Peak Lunch 68 GSN Leverage Impact (PROMPT) Partnership between GSN and WiCO, announced by Minister C. Gignac of MDEIE: GSN as a strong economic driver for regional development; Foundation for the digital economy strategy; Ingredient for Quebec's 'Plan Nord’, Premier’s project to develop Northern Quebec. GSN project submitted to Prompt’s MDDEP financing for Green ICT projects that will reduce GHG: Professor M. Cheriet and Mathieu Lemay are contributing valuable GSN expertise to CIRAIG; 1st Green Standards Week held in September in Rome, Italy organized by ITU and the Ministry of Economic Development of Italy and hosted by Telecom Italia; Participation in the NYSERDA/GSN workshop on September 8th; Presentation to the ‘Entretiens Jacques-Cartier’ in the session on ‘Are Green ICT Technologies really Green?’ on September 3 and 4th at Concordia University and at ETS; Presentation of GSN by Charles Despins as Co-Chair of the ‘Low Carbon IT Industry’ of the Low Carbon Earth Summit – 2011 that was held in Dacian in China, in October; Launch of ‘EcoloTIC’, Quebec’s major Green ICT initiative: $30 million contribution from the Government and $40 million from six major industry players. Future activity that will include GSN Prompt will host the Seventh ITU Symposium on ICTs, the Environment and Climate Change on 29-31 May 2012 in Montreal. 69 69 The GreenStar Network Partners Academia Not-for-Profit Corporations Industry iDeal inc. SIGMACO Government International Partners USA Belgium Ireland Spain China 70 Thank you! http://www.greenstarnetwork.com Contact : Prof. Mohamed Cheriet, Eng., Ph.D., SMIEEE Director / Synchromedia Consortium [email protected] Website: http://www.synchromedia.ca/ ©Synchromedia 2012 71