Laboratory for Multimedia

Communication in Telepresence

Montréal Métropole NumériqueA World-class Home Innovations

for Green ICT

Mohamed Cheriet, Eng. Ph.D. École de technologie supérieure, Montréal, Québec

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ICT Energy & Environment

Climate Change is not reversibleUrgently need to develop low carbon solutions

ICT are a major consumer of power (8% in the US) and CO2 production which is growing at 6% per year

The problem we face is not only EnergyEfficiency though, BUT GHG Reduction

Our Goal is to provide ICT Services withgreen energy

*Source: Wikipedia + Hydro Quebec

Electricity production in Canada

Distribution of power stations in Canada Production value

and it’s GREEN : 96% hydro power (present) + wind (up to 8% in 2015)

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Energy provision at low price : AvailableAnd GREEN

Network infrastructure: Available, e.g., Canarie networkHigh speed optical network linked to largest content providers

Operating and Management technology: The GreenStar

Network is worldwide leaderVirtualization

Cloud management

Energy monitoring

Optimization (performance, utilization, energy consumption)

Training, space, logistics, marketing: Need governmental

and industrial supportsA convergence of IT and energy industries

New era of “révolution tranquille”

Metropol of green data center housing ?

Montreal

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Infrastructure Resources

GHG Measurement Engine(ISO 14064)

Infrastructure Metrics Aggregation

Compute Resource 1M

Compute Resource nM

Network Resource 1 M

Network Resource n M

Sensor Resource 1 M

Sensor Resource n M Decision Engine

Data Centre n

Metrics (M)

Compute

Cluster

Network

EquipmentInstruments,

Sensors

GSN Green IT Pilot Goals:

(i) Distributed Cloud Software

(ii) Follow the Sun/Wind Energy

(iii) Carbon protocol, GeoChronosrelocation that

GreenStar Network

Central Hub

Hydro-powered node

Spokes

Sun/Wind powered nodes

The GreenStar Network Solution

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The GreenStar Network Solution

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Towards A Greener World

How to sell energy ?

OR ?

Export raw natural resources and Pollution

China

Export computing power and Sustainability

+ Bonus: jobs, technology

China

Optical infrastructure of the Metropole

* Source: Canarie Inc.

100GB network*

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http://www.greenstarnetwork.com

Demonstration of GreenStar web applicationhttp://gsnmanager.greenstarnetwork.com/gsn-webclient-

video/

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