[nylug-announce] TOMORROW! NYLUG Presents: Jim Gleason on The Green Data Center & New Energy SIG

Tue Aug 28 09:30:01 EDT 2007

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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
6:30pm-8:00 PM
Google
76th 9th Ave., between 15th and 16th St.
4th Floor, enter near 16th Street

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                      Jim Gleason (IBM Corporation)
                                  -on-
                         The Green Data Center

  Driven with a 10-to-1 price performance improvement over Unix-based
  "big iron" systems, Linux x86 servers have transformed the world's IT
  infrastructure.  Over the last ten years, compute capacity has been
  gained by adding higher-density Linux servers to a data center; and
  then, the difficult tasks of power and thermal management were handed
  off to the data center administrator.  This is no longer feasible.

  Energy consumption in data centers has doubled since 2000 and they are
  fast approaching the limits of their power and cooling capacities.  By
  way of comparison, an average home consumes approximately 1 watt per
  square foot of power and a typical office uses 10 watts/square foot;
  but a corporate data center consumes 200 watts per square foot or more.
  In the US, data center infrastructure comprises 1-2% of overall
  national electrical usage.  This is the equivalent of five 1,000 MW
  power plants.  And by the way, demand is _not_ decreasing.  The rising
  cost of a kilowatt further compounds the problem.  The cost to cool a
  server now exceeds the cost to purchase it.  In many cases, extra
  electricity isn't available at any price.  Some utilities, especially
  those in crowded urban areas, are telling customers that power feeds
  are at capacity and  they simply have no more power to sell.

  Not only do power-constrained environments inhibit business growth,
  they also emit millions of tons of greenhouse gases every year.
  Whether you are discussing energy or discussing climate, you are really
  talking about the same thing.  The question is, how can corporations
  meet their increasing demands for more electricity and protect the
  climate at the same time?

  Speaking from first-hand experience, Jim Gleason of IBM Corp., will
  explain all of the modern approaches for reducing data center operating
  costs, including virtualization and techniques for optimizing server
  utilization.  A broad range of technologies will be covered, such as
  phase-change "cool storage," power management software and "hot spot"
  reduction, that improve cooling and minimize the carbon footprint of
  data centers.  In addition, Jim will discuss other IBM initatives to
  improve the nation's electrical grid and IBM Research efforts involved
  in transforming renewable energy, including solar power.  Lastly, the
  floor will be opened up to discuss collective lessons learned from open
  source software development and distributed computing, and how this
  knowledge may factor into the possibility of distributed energy and
  micropower.

  New! Energy 2.0 User Group
  --------------------------
  Attention Energy Geeks! NYLUG will be creating one of the first
  "Energy 2.0" user groups in the New York area.  Similar to the MIT
  Energy Club, this special interest group will host technical speakers
  and hold social events for members of the community who wish to
  interact and make an impact in the emerging energy sector space.  An 
  announcement on the first event will be made at this meeting.

  Further Information:

  * IBM: The Green Data Center
    http://ibm.com/systems/optimizeit/cost_efficiency/energy_efficiency

  * IBM: Virtualization Curbs Data Center Energy Costs
    http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/virtualization/view/081307.html

  * Press Release: IBM Launches "Big Green Linux" Initiative
    http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/22006.wss

  * The MIT Energy Club 
    http://web.mit.edu/mit_energy

About Jim Gleason
  Responsible for the introduction of the first mission-critical Linux
  clusters to Wall Street investment banks ten years ago, Jim Gleason
  began to observe energy and heat issues in these data centers soon
  thereafter and has focused his efforts on these concerns ever since.
  Currently Jim works in IBM's Financial Services Sector Industry 
  Solutions unit.  IBM's "Project Big Green" is a $1 billion per year
  initiative with the goal of focusing IBM expertise and resources to
  reduce data center energy consumption and transform the world's
  business infrastructures into "greener" data centers.  Jim is also
  the founder of the New York Linux Users Group, which is sponsored 
  by and holds its meetings at Google's facilities in downtown Manhattan.

Meeting Location
  Please note that this meeting will be held at Google, 76 9th Ave,
  4th floor, between 15th and 16th Streets, and not at IBM. This is
  the old Port Authority Building, and takes up the entire block.
  You want the entrance nearest 16th Ave.

Map
  http://tighturl.com/u4

Free Refreshments!
  Google is also graciously providing refreshments during the
  meeting.

Books!!!
  Our friends at Prentice-Hall kindly provide us with review copies
  of various new titles.  One of these could be yours, all you have
  to do is agree to review the book within a reasonable period of
  time.

Swag (Give Away)
  During/after the meeting... unusually terrific swag may be given
  away.

Stammtisch
  After the meeting ... Many of us have been meeting over at the
  Hog Pit starting around 8:15-8:30.  http://www.hogpit.com
  22 Ninth Avenue at 13th Street, New York, New York 10014

Python Workshops
  Our Python workshops will now be focusing their energy on building the
  new NYLUG web site.  All are welcome, from beginners to old hands, and
  there's work for non-coders too.  The workshops meet every other
  Tuesday, at the NY Public Library, Hudson Park Branch.
  66 Leroy St. NY NY from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Next meeting is August 28.
  See the calendar at: http://tighturl.com/fp

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