Recently electricity usage has become a major IT concern for data
centers. In fact, the electricity costs for running and cooling
computers generally are considered a major portion of the IT budget. As
reported by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 61 billion
kilowatt-hours of power was consumed in data centers in 2006, which is
1.5% of all US electricity consumption and worthy of $4.5 billion and
will double by 2011. In this talk we will discuss our current efforts to
improve the effectiveness of data centers while using green scheduling
algorithms, virtualization, and clouds. We also provide an example on
how to reduce the carbon footprint by using specially tuned algorithms
using GPPGU's exposed as a Cloud service for flowcytometry.

Biography

Gregor von Laszewski is the Director of the Service Oriented
Cyberinfrastructure Laboratory at Rochester Institute of Technology
(RIT). He is also an associate professor of the PhD program at RIT and
holds a guest appointment in the computer science department. He worked
between 1996 and 2007 for Argonne National Laboratory where he was last
a scientist and a fellow of the Computation Institute at University of
Chicago. He received a Masters Degree in 1990 from the University of
Bonn, Germany, and a Ph.D. in 1996 from Syracuse University in computer
science. He is involved in Grid computing since the term was coined.
Current research interests are in the areas of GreenIT, Grid & Cloud
computing, and GPGPUs. He is best known for his efforts in making Grids
usable and initiating the Java Commodity Grid Kit which provides a basis
for many Grid related projects including the Globus toolkit
(http://www.cogkits.org).