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the consortia). Here’s an overview of each project:
DOLFIN: Data Centres Optimisation for Energy-Efficient and Environmentally Friendly Internet is investing heavily in smart-grid and smart-city technologies. The project will look to optimise data centres to use renewable energy. The consortium plans to develop a data centre management system that is able to manage IT as well as power and cooling systems. There will also be a software management layer, which will be capable of shifting virtual machines (VMs) according to policies designed to make the best use of intermittent renewable energy supplies.
GENiC: Globally Optimised Energy Efficient Data centres plans to develop software tools to improve the coordination between server cooling, server workload allocation and power supply and storage. However, data centre uptime will also be an important consideration, and the project will include the development fault-detection and diagnostics algorithms for data centre performance monitoring. On-site renewable energy generation will also be investigated, because consortium partner
ACCIONA has a renewable (photovoltaic, wind and biomass) micro-grid at its research facilities in Madrid and Seville, Spain.
GEYSER: Green Networked Data centres as Energy Users in Smart-city Environments plans enable the development of data centres that are 80% powered by renewables, but use less overall energy than traditional facilities. This will be achieved by improving the integration between data centres and smart energy grids, the consortium states. Partners such as energy and power specialist ABB have expertise in data centre infrastructure management and in issues such as the use of direct current in data centres to improve efficiency.
GreenDataNet: The project consortium plans to develop software tools that will enable data centre operators to optimise multiple data centres to make use of renewable energy. The consortium describes its Remote Smart Energy Management Tool as being akin to DCIM in that it can be deployed across multiple facilities to manage the interaction between IT hardware, software and renewable energy sources. Nissan will also
be investigating how its battery technology – developed for electric vehicles – could be used for energy storage.
RenewIT project: Along with others in this funding call, will include the development of data centre energy-monitoring tools with a specific focus on renewable energy. The project will also develop simulation tools to help optimize the design of new facilities to make use of renewable energy sources. Two of the partners, 451 Research and IREC, are part of the consortium of the EC CoolEmAll project, which has also developed energy- efficiency-simulation tools for data centres. DC4Cities – The project should benefit from work already done by HP Labs in the US on matching data centres to renewable energy. The Net Zero Data centre project involved balancing locally supplied renewable energy and supplemental grid power with IT systems and services that are tightly managed to minimize energy consumption. The project also builds on work done by consortium partners in previous EU-funded projects – Fit4Green and All4Green – on the development of energy-efficient service-level agreements.
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