PrimeEnergyIT

The Project

PrimeEnergyIT charterMarket development for energy efficient central IT equipment

Hardware and service based energy efficiency criteria and metricsGuidelines on energy efficient equipment and best practiseEducation and training of IT and infrastructure managers and experts Guidelines and criteria for procurement and management

SNIA InterestCooperate with energy efficiency protagonistsPropose energy efficiency standards and metricsGSI – green storage initiative

2Apr 19, 2023

Contacts

Dr. Bernd Schäppi, PrimeEnergyIT Project manager Austrian Energy Agency Thomas Bogner, PrimeEnergyIT Austrian Energy AgencyLaurent Lefèvre, INRIA RESO, LIP, ENS-Lyon, University of Lyon, France Marcos Dias De Assuncao - Postdoctoral researcher

INRIA RESO - LIP, ENS-Lyon, University of Lyon, France http://www.efficientdatacenter.org/Dr. Alan Yoder, SNIA, GSI

3Apr 19, 2023

PrimeEnergyIT Project Charter

Division of DC infrastructures:Data Storage SubsystemsNetwork equipmentComputing infrastructurePower infrastructure

Charter for storage resides with the University of LyonSurvey on datastorage subsystems by PrimeEnergyIT, including the SPC benchmarking suite and results have been performedPrimeEntergyIT goal: Establish Energy metrics for DC infrastructure based on classes of service.Main interest: - Measurements of possible savings

SNIA publications

Best Practices for Energy Efficient Storage Operations

Tom Clark and Alan YoderOne off white paper – no updateshttp://www.snia.org/forums/green/knowledge/GSI_Best_Practices_V1.0_FINAL.pdf

SNIA Green power specification drafthttp://www.snia-europe.org/en/Download/document-summary.cfm?docid=0B428684-1B54-4441-991BD318373B761B

SNIA development

SNIA Green Storage Initiative draftThe initial draft Green Storage Power Measurement Specification defines a baseline standard for idle power metrics which can be applied as a uniform method for collecting idle power consumption measurements. It also includes a “Green Storage Taxonomy” for classifying storage products based on energy consumption characteristics and application environments. 

On the SNIA side, the Green Power spec has been delayed by auditing issues and concerns. We hope to have it published by mid-summer now, and a copy will be out for membership vote before then.

Other interested parties

ITU-TITU-T Study Group 5 - Environment and climate change

Study Group 5 is the ITU-T Study Group responsible for studies on methodologies for evaluating the ICT effects on climate change and publishing guidelines for using ICTs in an eco-friendly way. Under its environmental mandate SG 5 is also responsible for studying design methodologies to reduce environmental effects, for example recycling of ICT facilities and equipment.

EU Commission Best Practices and Code of conduct for Data Centres

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/sustainable_growth/docs/datacenter_code-conduct.pdf

http://re.jrc.ec.europa.eu/energyefficiency/pdf/CoC%20DC%20new%20rep%20form%20and%20guidelines/Best%20Practices%20v2.0.0%20-%20Release.pdf

Next steps

Desired areas of collaborationService based metrics Evaluation of performance and capacity vs power consumptionLoad profiles

Transactional, file, archive etc. Storage power consumptionPower benchmark - what is planned? SPECpower for storage & network & computing ?

– reference: specPower ssj

The ISO Study Group on Green Energy IT would like to know if PrimeEnergyIT would like to participate in the ISO process, or alternatively, contribute any specification material to an eventual standard

Which plans does PrimeEnergyIT have to develop actual normative specifications?

Looking into coming up with their own specs if Industry fails to deliver