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Sustainability at your institution – EAUC Conference April 2011. JISC’s Greening ICT Programme. Rob Bristow Programme Manager – Green ICT. Drivers for Green ICT. ICT Energy and carbon emissions Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) Funding council drivers Reduce costs Improve efficiency
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Sustainability at your institution – EAUC Conference April 2011 JISC’s Greening ICT Programme Rob BristowProgramme Manager – Green ICT
Drivers for Green ICT • ICT Energy and carbon emissions • Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) • Funding council drivers • Reduce costs • Improve efficiency • Enhance reputation • New ways of working and new paradigms for teaching, learning, research and administration
The Problem • 760,000 PCs • 215,000 servers • 147,000 networked printers • 512,000 Mwh of electricity • 275,000 tonnes of CO2 • High costs - £116 million + in 2009 (Electricity HE & FE in UK) Picture: Josie Fraser Some rights reserved
Production Burdens • A typical semiconductor facility:- 591 million gallons DI water- 5.2 million pounds of chemicals- 8.8 million kwh of electricity • PC/LCD production- 1,000+ hazardous substances • High energy materials- 2.5 tonnes of rock- for 1 gram of gold
The Opportunity • Smarter systems, buildings and processes • Re-think the campus and the curriculum • De-materialisation, dis-aggregation and dis-intermediation • HE as exemplar for low-carbon IT • Green as driver for other efficiency gains • ICT as cost versus ICT as opportunity
Data Centres and Server Rooms • “the physical reality of modern campus CyberInfrastructure (CI) is a complex network of ad hoc and sub-optimal energy environments in departmental facilities” • Green Light project - UC - San Diego http://greenlight.calit2.net/ • But demand is growing • Processing • Storage – Exabytes of data • E-Science • EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres Picture: Josie Fraser Some rights reserved
The Desktop • Still over 50% of ICT energy use in most institutions • Thin client may not be best way to go • Balance back-end energy use with support costs, etc • Powerdown solutions available • Commercial • Open source (late 2011 – JISC funded project • User-owned devices and the infrastructure to support them
Printing and Print Substitution • “(Staff) printing is out of control1” • Often only measure is how much paper gets bought • Tacking printing can raise difficult issues in some places • Form a cross-functional team and team and get the users on board • Roll out Multi-functional devices and cull desktop printers • Enable power-saving modes and duplex printing by default • 95% of energy associated with printing is the paper • Look at print substitution and handheld devices
Procurement • How to buy the best kit? • 50% of energy use is in the manufacture and distribution – 50% in lifetime use • Energy Star and EPEAT are useful yardsticks • Need for proper overview of total (environmental) cost of ownership • TCO Certified for Monitors • Disposal • Where is your kit ending up? • More difficult making valid comparisons when it comes to servers and the like
The Programme • Intended outputs from this programme • Substantive body of knowledge illuminating areas of uncertainty in respect to Green ICT • Exemplar projects providing leadership and best practice example • Outcomes • Reduction of sector carbon footprint and associated energy costs • Increased capacity and expertise across the sector in sustainable ICT • Improved reputation of sector and UK as leaders in this area • Reduction in waste generated by ICT use Key objectives for the programme • Greening the sector - attitudinal and behaviour change embedded across the sector • New sustainable procurement paradigms • Sustainability seen as key driver and yardstick for sector activities • Harnessing of sector research activities
The story so far • Suste-IT Project • Year long look at Green ICT in HE and FE • Report, briefing papers, case studies • Carbon, Energy and Environmental Issues in Higher Education - Current Regulations and Schemes • Virtual Servers for Efficient and Flexible IT Infrastructure • Responsible Energy Costs in Higher and Further Education • Carbon Footprinting Tool • Thin/Thick Client tool • http://www.goodcampus.org/files/index.php?siteID=
Innovation Work • Research & Exploration • Growing the knowledge base • Technical Innovation • Joining things up, getting developers engaged in Green ICT • Estates led strand • Building capacity • Projects led by Estates Directors • Institutional Transformation • Re-thinking the campus and the curriculum • Community engagement • Working with EAUC & London Higher
Research & Exploration • Cloud computing • Work with colleges through 157 Group • Video-conferencing and events (The Welsh Video Network, HEEPI and Bristol) • Scientific computing and energy usage in labs (HEEPI) • How to engage users in owning the problem (De Montfort and Oxford) • Pledging systems (Pembrokeshire College) • How sustainable is thin-client (really)? (Leeds Met) • Exploring where the energy goes in the server room (Leeds Met)
Technical Innovation • Powering down super-computers (Oxford) • Rationalising file storage (Cardiff) • System to share high-end kit both with and across institutions (Loughborough) • Print substitution via e-Readers (Edgehill) • Widgets to display energy usage (De Montfort) • Open-source PC Powerdown solution (Aberystwyth) • Photo-voltaic-cells to power evaporative coolers in a data-centre (Worcester College)
Estates Engagement • Aim is to build capacity in Estates for working with innovation and to foster links with IT • Tackling laboratory energy use (Bradford) • Heat and light by timetable (Leeds Met) • Tackling heating and cooling overshoots • Further work to improve the legacy data-centre (Imperial College) • Photo-voltaic-cells to power evaporative coolers in a data-centre (Worcester College)
Institutional Transformation • Procurement and Scope 3 Emissions (De Montfort) • Getting a handle on the rest of the carbon • Good links with procurement, estates, and IT • Understanding the environmental implications of different modes of curriculum delivery (Open University) • Does it matter? What might be the best way forward? • Energy use and students (Coventry) • How to engage with this rapidly changing constituency • Academic events and travel (Bristol) • Understanding the place that travel has in academic life
Community Engagement • Embedding and uptake • Work with the EAUC to help institutions benchmark their ICT carbon footprint and develop action plans • Outreach beyond the innovation projects • Similar work with London HEIs run by London Higher • Support and Synthesis work by JISC Netskills • Links to other parts of JISC’s Organisational Support agenda • Strategic Management of ICT • Flexible Service Delivery and Enterprise Architectures • Cloud computing • Efficient, Effective and Environmentally Sustainable
Results to date • Phase I projects starting to report – headlines: • Planet Filestore Project (Cardiff) – shows relevance of moving infrequently accessed files to lower tiers of storage. Being funded to develop online decision application to allow others to see if this makes sense for them • Pembrokeshire College – Will be making their pledging system open source and releasing code and how-to guides • Thin client investigation at Leeds Met shows a well specified low power conventional PC is more efficient than thin-client in real world situations • Open source code from Oxford that helps people running high-performance computer clusters power down idle nodes • Review of e-Reader devices and their usefulness in paper substitution (Edgehill University)
Looking ahead – 2020 Agendas • Technology/material transitions • New storage technologies • Energy aware software • Net zero carbon- data centres – Paper Mills in Finland next to Hydro Dam- networks- supply chains • Local integration • Greening the cloud
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/greeningict.aspx - JISC’s Greening ICT Programme • http://re.jrc.ec.europa.eu/energyefficiency/html/standby_initiative_data_centers.htm - EU C of C • http://greenict.jiscinvolve.org/ - JISC’s Green ICT Blog • Good Campus Site • Home of Suste-IT outputs and much more • #greeningict - Tag in use on Twitter et al
Rob Bristow • Programme Manager (Green ICT) • r.bristow@jisc.ac.uk • +44 (0) 7825 823 282 • Twitter: robbristow • Blog: http://greenict.jiscinvolve.org/ • Mailing list: SUSTAINABLE-ICT@JISCMAIL.AC.UK • Sign up at: • http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/SUSTAINABLE-ICT