When: Thursday,
October 29, 2009, 3:30 p.m.
Where: PM 253
Lecture: Towards Green Computing
in Clouds
Speaker: Dr. Gregor von Laszewski
is conducting state-of-the-art work in cloud computing
and GreenIT at Indiana University as part of the
Future Grid project. Before joining Indiana University
he was at the Rochester Intsitute of Technology
where he was a member of the computer science department
faculty and the Director of RIT’s Center
for Advancing the Study of Cyberinfrastructure.
Prior to that, he worked between 1996 and 2007
for Argonne National Laboratory, where he was last
a scientist and a fellow of the Computation Institute
at University of Chicago. He received a Masters
Degree in 1990 from the University of Bonn, Germany,
and a Ph.D. in 1996 from Syracuse University in
computer science. He has been involved in grid
computing since the term was coined. Current research
interests are in the areas of GreenIT, grid & cloud
computing, and GPGPUs. He is best known for his
efforts in making grids usable and initiating the
Java Commodity Grid Kit, which provides a basis
for many grid-related projects including the Globus
toolkit (http://www.cogkits.org). His web page
is located at
http://cyberaide.org
.
Abstract: Recently, electricity usage has become a major IT concern for data centers. In fact, the electricity costs for running and cooling computers generally are considered a major portion of the IT budget. As reported by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 61 billion kilowatt-hours of power was consumed in data centers in 2006, which is 1.5% of all US electricity consumption, worthy of $4.5 billion, and expected to double by 2011. In this presentation, Dr. von Laszewski will discuss current efforts to improve the effectiveness of data centers while using green scheduling algorithms, virtualization, and clouds. He will also provide an example on how to reduce the carbon footprint by using specially tuned algorithms using GPGPU’s exposed as a Cloud service for flowcytometry.
Co-sponsored by the Graduate Colloquium Committee and the Department of Computer Science.