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| == Speaker/Presentation == | | == Speaker/Presentation == |
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− | Name: Timo Mechler | + | Name: TBA |
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− | James R. Swartz Entrepreneurial Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business 2010 Graduated 2010 MBA. Master’s degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University in 2008.
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− | Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Physics from Luther College in 2006.
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− | Improving the Energy Efficiency of IT Data Center Server Farms
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− | IT data centers are one of the largest and fastest
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− | growing power consumers in the world today. With energy costs continuing to rise, data centers faced
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− | with making difficult tradeoffs between power and performance. In fact, in a recent EPA report, it was
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− | estimated that power costs for U.S. data centers would total $7.4 billion in 2011, with approximately
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− | half of that cost being attributed to servers alone. What exacerbates the matter especially is that
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− | servers are heavily underutilized on average, wasting expensive power in the process. Despite advances in
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− | virtualization technology in recent years, servers today are still utilized less than 20% on average,
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− | demonstrating that this problem has not been solved sufficiently.
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− | POW Solutions is commercializing cutting edge power management
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− | algorithms developed in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon which address this problem by
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− | more efficiently matching demand (incoming workload to the data center) with available supply
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− | (the amount of machines available in the data center). In this talk, I will give an overview of how our
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− | software solution will perform this optimization, and spend some time discussing how POW uses Linux as an
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− | OS platform to develop for, but also as a software development environment. I will finish by
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− | briefly discussing the business case to be made for server power savings and optimization in data centers.
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| == Meeting Minutes == | | == Meeting Minutes == |