The Role of University Energy Efficient Cyberinfrastructure in Slowing Climate Change Talk to MGT166 Class Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility Otterson Hall, Rady School of Management University of California, San Diego June 1, 2010 Dr. Larry Smarr Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology Harry E. Gruber Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD Twitter: lsmarr

Rapid Increase in the Greenhouse Gas CO 2 Since Industrial Era Began Little Ice Age Medieval Warm Period 388 ppm in 2010 Source: David JC MacKay, Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air (2009)

Global Average Temperature Per Decade Over the Last 160 Years

Climate Models Match Past Temperature Variations, Combining Both Natural and Anthropogenic Effects

Atmospheric CO 2 Levels for 800,000 Years and Projections for the 21 st Century /us-impacts/download-the-report Source: U.S. Global Change Research Program Report (2009) (MIT Study) (Shell Study)

The Planet is Already Committed to a Dangerous Level of Warming Temperature Threshold Range that Initiates the Climate-Tipping V. Ramanathan and Y. Feng, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD September 23, Additional Warming over 1750 Level Earth Has Only Realized 1/3 of the Committed Warming - Future Emissions of Greenhouse Gases Move Peak to the Right

Summer Arctic Sea Ice Volume Shows Even More Extreme Melting—Ice Free by 2015? Source: Wieslaw Maslowski Naval Postgraduate School, AAAS Talk 2010

CO 2 Emissions are an Impulse to Earth Climate System—Equilibrium Response will Take Centuries Sea Level Rise Will Impact 150 Million People by 2100 —The Vast Majority in Asia IPCC 2007 Estimates 1 Meter Sea Level Rise “Global sea level linked to global temperature,” Martin Vermeer and Stefan Rahmstorf, PNAS, v. 106, 21527–21532 (2009)

Atmospheric Aerosols Cool Climate— Cleaning Air Pollution will Accelerate Warming! NASA satellite image Ramananthan & Feng Outside Beijing 11/9/2008

Urgent Actions Required to Limit Global Warming to Less Than 2 Degrees Centigrade Three Simultaneous Actions –Reduce Annual CO 2 Emissions 50% by 2050—Keep CO 2 Concentration Below 441 ppm –Balance Removing Cooling Aersols by Removing Warming Black Carbon and Ozone –Greatly Reduce Emissions of Short-Lived GHGs-Methane and Hydrofluorocarbons Alternative Energy Must Scale Up Very Quickly Carbon Sequestration Must be Widely Used for Coal “The Copenhagen Accord for limiting global warming: Criteria, constraints, and available avenues,” PNAS, v. 107, (May 4, 2010) V. Ramanathan and Y. Xu, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD

To Cut Energy Related CO 2 Emissions 50% by 2050 Requires a Radically Different Energy System Focus on Negawatts, Renewables, CCS IEA “Blue” Scenario

Global Electricity Production Power Generation Mix – Comparing Business as Usual with IEA Blue Scenario 46% Renewables Eliminate Coal Use Without CCS, Scale Up Renewables

Climate Change Will Pose Major Challenges to California in Water and Wildfires “It is likely that the changes in climate that San Diego is experiencing due to the warming of the region will increase the frequency and intensity of fires even more, making the region more vulnerable to devastating fires like the ones seen in 2003 and 2007.” California Applications Program (CAP) & The California Climate Change Center (CCCC) CAP/CCCC is directed from the Climate Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

ICT Could be a Key Factor in Reducing the Rate of Climate Change Applications of ICT could enable emissions reductions of 15% of business-as-usual emissions. But it must keep its own growing footprint in check and overcome a number of hurdles if it expects to deliver on this potential.

ICT is a Critical Element in Achieving Countries Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Targets GeSI member companies: Bell Canada, British Telecomm., Plc, Cisco Systems, Deutsche Telekom AG, Ericsson, France Telecom, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Microsoft, Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks, Sun Microsystems, T-Mobile, Telefónica S.A., Telenor, Verizon, Vodafone Plc. Additional support: Dell, LG.

The Global ICT Carbon Footprint is Significant and Growing at 6% Annually! the assumptions behind the growth in emissions expected in 2020: takes into account likely efficient technology developments that affect the power consumption of products and services and their expected penetration in the market in 2020 Most of Growth is in Developing Countries

Reduction of ICT Emissions is a Global Challenge – U.S. and Canada are Small Sources U.S. plus Canada Percentage Falls From 25% to 14% of Global ICT Emissions by

The Global ICT Carbon Footprint by Subsector The Number of PCs (Desktops and Laptops) Globally is Expected to Increase from 592 Million in 2002 to More Than Four Billion in 2020 PCs Are Biggest Problem Data Centers Are Rapidly Improving

Increasing Laptop Energy Efficiency: Putting Machines To Sleep Transparently 19 Peripheral Laptop Low power domain Network interface Secondary processor Network interface Management software Management software Main processor, RAM, etc Main processor, RAM, etc Somniloquy Enables Servers to Enter and Exit Sleep While Maintaining Their Network and Application Level Presence Rajesh Gupta, UCSD CSE; Calit2

PC: 68% Energy Saving Since SSR Deployment kW-Hours: kW-H Averge Watts:55.80 W Energy costs:$63.54 Estimated Energy Savings with Sleep Server: 32.62% Estimated Cost Savings with Sleep Server: $28.4 kW-Hours: kW-H Averge Watts:55.80 W Energy costs:$63.54 Estimated Energy Savings with Sleep Server: 32.62% Estimated Cost Savings with Sleep Server: $28.4 energy.ucsd.edu

The GreenLight Project: Instrumenting the Energy Cost of Computational Science Focus on 5 Communities with At-Scale Computing Needs: –Metagenomics –Ocean Observing –Microscopy –Bioinformatics –Digital Media Measure, Monitor, & Web Publish Real-Time Sensor Outputs –Via Service-oriented Architectures –Allow Researchers Anywhere To Study Computing Energy Cost –Enable Scientists To Explore Tactics For Maximizing Work/Watt Develop Middleware that Automates Optimal Choice of Compute/RAM Power Strategies for Desired Greenness Partnering With Minority-Serving Institutions Cyberinfrastructure Empowerment Coalition Source: Tom DeFanti, Calit2; GreenLight PI

New Techniques for Dynamic Power and Thermal Management to Reduce Energy Requirements Dynamic Thermal Management (DTM) Workload Scheduling: Machine learning for Dynamic Adaptation to get Best Temporal and Spatial Profiles with Closed-Loop Sensing Proactive Thermal Management Reduces Thermal Hot Spots by Average 60% with No Performance Overhead Dynamic Power Management (DPM) Optimal DPM for a Class of Workloads Machine Learning to Adapt Select Among Specialized Policies Use Sensors and Performance Counters to Monitor Multitasking/Within Task Adaptation of Voltage and Frequency Measured Energy Savings of Up to 70% per Device NSF Project Greenlight Green Cyberinfrastructure in Energy-Efficient Modular Facilities Closed-Loop Power &Thermal Management System Energy Efficiency Lab (seelab.ucsd.edu) Prof. Tajana Šimunić Rosing, CSE, UCSD CNS

Application of ICT Can Lead to a 5-Fold Greater Decrease in GHGs Than its Own Carbon Footprint Major Opportunities for the United States* –Smart Electrical Grids –Smart Transportation Systems –Smart Buildings –Virtual Meetings * Smart 2020 United States Report Addendum While the sector plans to significantly step up the energy efficiency of its products and services, ICT’s largest influence will be by enabling energy efficiencies in other sectors, an opportunity that could deliver carbon savings five times larger than the total emissions from the entire ICT sector in Smart 2020 Report

Making University Campuses Living Laboratories for the Greener Future

Using High Definition to Link the Calit2 Buildings: Living Greener June 2, 2008 LifeSize System

HD Talk to Australia’s Monash University from Calit2: Reducing International Travel July 31, 2008 Source: David Abramson, Monash Univ Qvidium Compressed HD ~140 mbps

Linking the Calit2 Auditoriums at UCSD and UCI with LifeSize HD for Shared Seminars September 8, 2009 Photo by Erik Jepsen, UC San Diego Sept. 8, 2009

High Definition Video Connected OptIPortals: Virtual Working Spaces for Data Intensive Research Source: Falko Kuester, Kai Doerr Calit2; Michael Sims, NASA NASA Ames Lunar Science Institute Mountain View, CA NASA Interest in Supporting Virtual Institutes LifeSize HD

Real-Time Monitoring of Building Energy Usage: UCSD Has 34 Buildings On-Line

Power Management in Mixed Use Buildings: The UCSD CSE Building is Energy Instrumented 500 Occupants, 750 Computers Detailed Instrumentation to Measure Macro and Micro-Scale Power Use –39 Sensor Pods, 156 Radios, 70 Circuits –Subsystems: Air Conditioning & Lighting Conclusions: –Peak Load is Twice Base Load –70% of Base Load is PCs and Servers –90% of That Could Be Avoided! Source: Rajesh Gupta, CSE, Calit2

Contributors to the CSE Base Load IT loads account for 50% (peak) to 80% (off-peak)! –Includes machine room + plug loads IT equipment, even when idle, not put to sleep Duty-Cycling IT loads essential to reduce baseline 31 Source: Rajesh Gupta, UCSD CSE, Calit2

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