EREC23: Workshop Energy and Resource Efficiency of data Centers at HPC Asia 2023 Singapore, Singapore, February 27, 2023 |
Conference website | https://ee-workshop.for.lrz.de |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=erec23 |
Submission deadline | December 21, 2022 |
Data centers have become an indispensable part of everyday life. When complex applications can be initiated on smartphones, the calculations are performed in data centers. Whether we are searching the Internet, downloading the weather forecast, or simply ordering from a delivery service. Science also relies on data centers in its daily work. For example, data-intensive high-performance computing (HPC) and cloud computing are already integrated into the daily routines of scientists. This is of course also true for environmental sciences, where applications and simulations for a wide variety of aspects are run in data centers. At the same time, the environmental impact of data center operations must be considered. In many places, the expected computing and storage capacities exceed the resources available to operate them and require more than ever an ecologically, economically, socially, but also technologically oriented development.
The possibilities offered by today’s data centers come at a price. In some places, operation is compa-rable to the energy consumption of a small town. However, by using more energy-efficient systems in terms of performance per computing operation (Watts/FLOPS), more powerful and environmentally compatible systems can already be realized today. In addition to primary cooling, the focus is also on the reuse of the resulting waste heat and the optimization of the energy used. Machine learning algo-rithms are increasingly being used to process the data flow from the sensors in real time. And finally, comparatively short life cycles of systems, which are regularly replaced by more energy-efficient and at the same time more powerful ones, lead to a burden through the production and disposal of the hardware, which can have a considerable impact on the environment.
Due to these factors, the operation of data centers is not only financially costly, but above all com-plex, if they are to be operated as resource-efficiently as possible. Optimizations are not only essential for increasing economic sustainability, but also offer advantages for the environment.
These optimizations need also to influence software and thereby the consumption of the hardware. Applications’ software controls energy-saving modes, transfers and stores large amounts of data, and thus triggers computing operations. It therefore has a significant impact on energy consumption, en-ergy efficiency and service life, and thus on energy and resource consumption. Container and work-flow frameworks support already today a more flexible and therefore efficient use of hardware, how-ever, their integration in supercomputing clusters is still ongoing and is partly still in its infancy.Flexible architectures for data center design, hybrid approaches and scalability of new, more efficient technologies are just some of the topics to be discussed in this workshop. Topics therefore include, but are not limited to:
- Green Data Center IT and Software
- Optimizing the energy efficiency of systems
- Models for energy and resource efficiency assessment
- Resource conservation through the use of smart technologies and artificial intelligence
- Machine learning to predict and regulate energy consumption in real time
- Efficient facility infrastructures and hybrid cooling technologies
- Secondary use of waste heat and integrated community heating systems
- Scalable, hybrid and flexible compute and data system architectures
- Container and workflow frameworks enabling energy efficiency methods
- Green Coding approaches in high performance software
- Scheduling algorithms for optimal energy use
We explicitly welcome contributions that go beyond this and address the basic idea of the workshop.
Paper Submission
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ONLINE SUBMISSION SYSTEM
Authors submitting papers for EREC23 must submit them via EasyChair.
Authors are invited to submit technical papers of at most 18 pages in PDF format including figures and references, formatted according to the ACM Proceedings Style and submitted through EasyChair. Submitted papers must contain original work that has not appeared in and is not under consideration for another conference or journal. There will be peer-review, but no revision/rebuttal process and the review will be one-pass.
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PROCEEDINGS
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Important Dates
Submission Deadline | November 28th, 2022 |
Notifications | December 13th, 2022 |
Camera Ready | December 23rd, 2022 |
Workshop | February 27th, 2023 |
Organizing Committee
- Dieter Kranzlmüller, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Munich, Germany
- Maximilian Höb, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Munich, Germany
Program Committee
- Adam Belloum, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Marian Bubak, Sano Centre for Computational Medicine and ACC Cyfronet AGH, Krakow, Poland
- Ewa Deelman, University of Southern California, Marina Del Rey, United States of America
- Ladislav Hluchy, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
- Shantenu Jha, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, United States of America
- Cerlane Leong, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre CSCS, Lugano, Switzerland
- Jason Maassen, Netherlands eScience Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Martin Schulz, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
- Dan Stanzione, Texas Advanced Computing Center, Austin, United States of America
- Nam Thoai, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam