E2DC 2014 - 3rd International Workshop on Energy-Efficient Data Centres

With the total consumption of data centres worldwide surpassing the energy consumption of, among others, countries like Sweden, investing into the energy efficiency of data centres means to invest into the future, both of the planet and of the data centre. This is a challenge that the international workshop on energy efficient data centres E2DC takes up for the third time in 2014: Increasing the energy efficiency of data centres is a first step at decoupling the rising need for communication and computation from the ecological footprint of data centres.
In the last two workshops of the E2DC series a variety of starting points to do this were identified by researchers of academia and industry: Whereas formerly the focus was on enhancing the IT equipment and cooling, later the software running in the data centre and the way that workload is being processed turned out to be also key. Some of last year’s contributions broadened the scope and dealt with the adequacy of data centres for demand response approaches.
Going a step forward, this year E2DC will additionally center on the optimization of the efficiency in the energy supply and on data centres in the context of smart cities. Topics will not be confined to technical solutions only but extend to issues regarding the economic viability of the proposed solutions, addressing researchers from both industry and academia.
The workshop invites original papers of 12-15 pages that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics include, but are not limited to:
Integration of data centres in smart cities
Demand response strategies in data centres
Optimizing the use of renewable energy sources in data centres
New metrics for green data centres
Energy-aware communication and network solutions
Energy-aware data centre infrastructure and architectures
Energy-aware cloud and high performance computing
Energy-aware data storages and reservoirs
Scalability of federated data centres
Novel business models of green ICT and data centres
Energy optimization algorithms and models
GreenSLAs and other green data centre contracts
Green computation and services
Standardization for eco-efficient data centre management
Big data and large scale simulations in eco-aware data centres