Laboratory for Multimedia Communication in Telepresence 4 nd CANARIE GSN Assessment Visit January 17 th, 2012 Mohamed Cheriet, GSN PL École de technologie.

Laboratory for Multimedia Communication in Telepresence

44ndnd CANARIE GSN Assessment Visit CANARIE GSN Assessment VisitJanuary 17January 17thth, 2012, 2012

Mohamed Cheriet, GSN PLÉcole de technologie supérieure, Montreal, Quebec,

Canada

The GreenStar Network The GreenStar Network MapMap

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Human Resources, Equipment & Finance all have been completed:

Budget: At the 8/8 (100%) periods way from the project start,

99.45% of money has been spent, which is an excellent ratio.

(1) Resources

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Budget Status

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The project schedule is on track:

(2) Project Timeline

Period P8

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Phase I:

(3) Deliverables

Statement of Work Deliverables (SoW)

Deliverable Extent completed (%) Comments

P I: Shipped initial node assemblies100%

P I: Software tools Installed100%

P I: Datacenter renewable energy powered nodes operational100%

P I: Backyard renewable energy powered nodes operational 100%

P I: Protocol committee trained 100%

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Phase II:

(3) Deliverables, Cont’d

Statement of Work Deliverables (SoW)

Deliverable Extent completed (%) Comments

P II: Provider pages on V-Infrastructures for each domain

100%

P II: Virtual Infrastructure spanning across the domains100%

P II: Installed PDU and Power Meters100% 5/5 = (Cybera+CRC+ETS+RF+HEAnet)/

(Cybera+CRC+ETS+RF+HEAnet)

P II: Protocol draft 100% Protocol Draft provided. Excellent progress.

P II: Protocol reviewed by community 100%

P II: GeoChronos relocated 100%GeoChronos was running at RackForce. Uptime more than 90%.

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Phase III:

(3) Deliverables, Cont’d

Statement of Work Deliverables (SoW)

Deliverable Extent completed (%) Comments

P III: OCCI Service Implementation 100%

P III: NSI Service Implementation 100%

P III: Follow the renewable energy management tool 100%- The controller is ready. Its optimization is the next step.

P III: OpenSource plugin for remote measurements100% - It was completed when we released version

GSN v1.0.0.

P III: Validated protocol on CSA CleanProjects Registry100% - Protocol tool

P III: Collected data from GHG reduction project100%

P III: Certified VERR100% - Dr. M Gell’s verification.

P III: Sellable Carbon Credit0% - Not in this project because of carbon market.

P III: Guide for creating GHG reduction projects100%

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Phase IV:

(3) Deliverables, Cont’d

Statement of Work Deliverables (SoW)

Deliverable Extent completed (%) Comments

P IV: Predictive Model for VM migrations (Performance and analysis of operation/migration of virtual machines)

100%- One paper published: F. Farrahi Moghaddam and M. Cheriet (ICNSC’10).

P IV: Moving Virtual Routers Performance Analysis (Network and routing performance analysis)

100%- Several papers have been submitted.

P IV: Quality of service model for moving services (Optimizing cost/energy usage in scheduling/migrating virtual machines)

100%

- One paper published: F. Farrahi Moghaddam and M. Cheriet (CLOUD’11).- Two other papers from ETS: SmartGrid’10 and GRES’10.- Two papers from GRC: ISSST’11 and Sustalnet’11.

P IV: Guide for design & operation of green nodes in GSN

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GSN Website VM

GSN VMs are running over GSN OpenFlow-based Network.

(3) Deliverables, Cont’d

http://www.greenstarnetwork.com

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Opensource licensing:

On behalf of CANARIE and GSN, ETS has moved forward with the Apache 2.0 licence for the GSN Software:

Simple and efficient.

ETS formal internal processes: • A standard invention disclosure form.• Listing all individual contributors and obtaining their

signatures.

Formal Approval of all contributors:ETS, CRC, Inocybe and iDeal

Middleware is now public and available at:http://www.github.com/synchromedia/OpenGSN

(4) Opensource Licensing of GSN

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Invited Talks and Medias

M. Cheriet. 12 (5mn) spots on Radio Canada : ICT Pollution, January 13, 2012.

M. Cheriet. Greening ICT and Greening through ICT, Innovation 2011, Canada’s R&D Partnership Conference, Montreal, November 20-22, 2011.

M. Cheriet. Green Sustainable Cloud & IT Service Network, PIMRC 2011 PANEL, September 14th, 2011.

M. Cheriet. Testbed Collaborations, Green Star Network, CANADA-EU THEMATIC MEETING, JSTCC ICT, October 3-4, 2011.

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Published and accepted Journal papers

M. Lemay, K.-K. Nguyen, B. St. Arnaud and M. Cheriet. Convergence of Cloud Computing and Network Virtualization: Towards a Neutral Carbon Network. IEEE Internet Computing, 2011.

J. Wu, J. Y. Zhang and M. Savoie, Lightpath Scheduling and Routing for Green Data Centres, In Telecommunication Systems - Special Issue on Green Telecommunications (In press), 2011.

K.-K Nguyen, M. Lemay and M. Cheriet. Enabling Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) on IP Networks. From Distributed to Virtualized Control Plane, IEEE Communications Magazine (In press), 2011.

(5) Communications, Cont’d

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Published and accepted Journal papers, Cont’d

W. Van Heddeghem, W. Vereecken, D. Colle, M. Pickavet and P. Demeester, Distributed Computing for Footprint Reduction by Exploiting Low-Footprint Energy Availability, Future Generation Computer Systems, Green Computing special issue, Volume 28, Issue 2, Pages 405-414, February 2012.

C. Despins, F. Labeau, R. Labelle, M. Cheriet, C. Thibeault, F. Gagnon, A. Leon-Garcia, O. Cherkaoui, B. St. Arnaud, J. McNeill, Y. Lemieux, M. Lemay, Leveraging Green Communications for Carbon Emission Reductions: Techniques, Testbeds and Emerging Carbon Footprint Standards, IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 49, no. 8, August 2011, pp. 101-109.

(5) Communications, Cont’d

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Published and accepted Journal papers, Cont’d

P. Steenhof, C. Weber, M. Brooks, J. Spence, R. Robinson, B. Fry, R. Simmonds, C. Kiddle, D. Aikema, M. Savoie, B. Ho, M. Lemay, M. Cheriet and J. Fung. A Protocol for Quantifying the Carbon Reductions Achieved Through the Provision of Low or Zero Carbon ICT Services. Accepted in Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems, 2011.

Submitted Journal papers

K.-K. Nguyen, M. Cheriet, M. Lemay, V. Reijs, A. Mackarel and A. Pastrama. Environmental-Aware Virtual Data Center Network. Submitted to Journal of Computer Networks, 2011.

Nguyen K.-K, Cheriet M., Lemay M., Kiddle C., Optimizing Outsourced Green Data Center Network, Submitted to ACM Computer Communication Review.

(5) Communications, Cont’d

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Submitted Journal papers, Cont’d

P. Steenhof, C. Weber, D. Aikema, R. Robinson, R. Simmonds and C. Kiddle. Estimating Emission Reductions from Low Carbon Information Technology: The GeoChronos Relocation Project. Submitted to Energy Policy, 2011.

Published and accepted Chapters

K.-K. Nguyen, A. Daouadji, M. Cheriet and M. Lemay. Resource Discovery and Allocation in Low Carbon Grid Networks. Book chapter: Communication and Security in Smart Grids, Auerbach Publications (In press), Taylor & Francis Group, CRC, 2011.

(5) Communications, Cont’d

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Conference Papers

Piet Demeester, a keynote speech at DRCN 2011 (October 10-12, Krakow, Poland) with some slides about the follow the wind/follow the sun concept.

Submitted Conference Papers

J. Wu, J. Zhang and M. Savoie. Scheduling Data Centre Connectivity for a Better Use of Green Energy. Submitted to the IEEE International Conference on Communications, Optical Networks and Systems Symposium, 2012.

(5) Communications, Cont’d

Carbon Protocol & GeoChronos Relocation

Reporting

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The ICT GHG Reduction Project Protocol

Purpose of Protocol: Establish a credible procedure for quantifying energy and emission reductions from Green ICT “projects”, with outcomes verifiable by third party

Development ProcessDeveloped using core group of experts from industry,

government, academiaSolicited input from an external committee of technical

experts Tested according to a “real world” case study“Operationalized” through development of online

documentation tool

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Protocol Applicability

The protocol is applicable to the following project activities: • Type 1: Project activities involving improvements to ICT facilities

Two use cases – increasing energy efficiency and use of low/zero carbon source energy

• Type 2: Project activities involving improvements to ICT servicesSix use cases related to different aspects of using BAT,

virtualization, consolidation, or cloud computing

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Quantifying energy and emission reductions

Energy and emission reductions are simply the difference between the project (P) and the baseline

May seem simple, but some key challenges….!• Ensuring “functional equivalence” between the project and the

baseline• Establishing what the baseline scenario is• For the possibility of obtaining carbon credits, demonstrating the

additionality of the project

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GHG Project Guide

Readers: ICT corporate decision makers Purpose: facilitate decision to use ProtocolCo-written by CSA & iDeal

Publicly available at www.ghgregistries.ca and GSN website

Two levels of detail:introductoryintermediate

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GHG Project Guide Summary, Cont’d

Your carbon reduction activities consist of changing the implementation of your ICT service or facility.Carbon emitted by ICT services and facilities is primarily due to consumed power. Multiplying the consumed power by the carbon intensity of the power source gives the carbon emissions.You will formalize your carbon reduction activities into a GHG reduction project. Your project covers a period of operation of your new ICT implementation – typically measured in years. The project does not include the carbon emitted during the construction of your improved ICT implementation; it covers only the carbon saved during its operation. You will create one, and possibly two, documents: The GHG Report will be prepared at the end of your project; it presents calculation of the carbon reduction. When required, the Project Validation Report will be ready at the beginning of your project; it describes how the measurements and estimations will be carried out. The carbon reduction achieved by your project may be sold in a carbon market (if verified), or used in corporate sustainability reporting. In either case the calculated reduction is considered bona fide.In the case you are intending to sell you carbon reductions, your GHG report will be audited by an independent external verifier. Verification may also be desirable for corporate sustainability reporting.If you are selling the reductions, then your new ICT implementation must be additional, meaning that you go beyond typical business as usual solutions for carbon reduction.

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GHG Project Guide Summary, Cont’d

Your calculated carbon reduction does not reflect any carbon-producing deficiencies of your old (i.e. pre-project) ICT implementation. Instead, it compares carbon emissions of your new implementation to a hypothetical baseline implementation. The baseline describes what your old implementation would have been like if the equipment and were upgraded to standard industry solutions at the time of project start.

The product produced by ICT is characterized as workload. Measurement units of workload will depend on the details of your project.

Your project activities will include measurement of critical quantities, including the power consumed and perhaps the workload experienced by your new implementation.

Based on these measurements, perhaps as well as manufacturers’ information, industry publications, and additional measurements, you will estimate the carbon emissions of your new implementation during the project’s duration, and you will estimate the carbon emissions that the hypothetical baseline would have produced during this same time period under the same workload. The difference between these two is your project’s carbon reduction.

Your measurements and estimations will be conservative, meaning that you err on the low side for the baseline and on the high side for the project. This results in a conservative estimate of your carbon reduction, erring on the low side.

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The GeoChronos Relocation Project Case Study

At the University of Calgary datacenter, GeoChronos used (as of December 2010) the following hardware systems:• A set of compute nodes that run VM’s

performing different tasks• A file server to serve VM images• A file server to serve data via NFS.

Project involved moving applications virtually to servers at a new efficient datacenter with near zero carbon source energy

Results of implementation: 2.412 tonnes (2,412.63 kg) of CO2e over the 13 week project.

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The ICT GHG Reduction Project Calculator and Documentation Tool

Tool purpose: • 1) Generating a report on potentially verifiable emission

reductions that can be registered, verified, serialized and brought to market

• 2) Generating a report suitable for use in Corporate Sustainability Reporting

Tool includes the following;• Online project documentation and calculation tool based on

the requirements of the Protocol • A process for project reports to be submitted to CSA

CleanProjects registry • Provision of necessary key guidance documents

Online at http://icttool.ghgregistries.ca/index.cfm

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Potential commercial impact of protocol/tool

Provides foundational guidance on estimating and reporting the emission impacts of low or zero carbon ICT services

Provides important knowledge base for future research and development:• Development of standards and/or certification system

specific to quantifying energy savings (useable for incentives programs, for example)

• Preparation of additional guidance on application of the protocol in specific ICT subsectors and case studies

• Carbon neutral program developed specific to datacenters

• Certification of a carbon neutral ICT service• Bringing the Protocol to ISO

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Final GSN Infrastructure deployment

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GSN infrastructure update Core GSN Nodes• Firmware update was applied to the Raritan PDUs at the Calgary and RF

GSN Nodes to deal with accessibility issues• GeoChronos relocation activity was successfully completed and the

application is now running again at the GRC as of the 20th of October

Extended GSN Nodes• Reconfiguration of the network architecture in Ireland to implement the

European GSN Hub and support the GSN Federated Cloud Use Case• GbE connection established between the Arista switch at ETS and the

CANARIE Montreal Juniper MX480 router to enable access to a logical router by Mantychore in support of the GSN Federated Cloud Use Case

CRC VMware Cluster• The CRC VMware cluster in the BADLAB is now hosting IaaS Containers as

a means to reduce the loading on the ets3 server. A VM image for the CRC Middleware Container was successfully converted and has been assigned IP address <10.20.99.157>

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GSN Infrastructure WG UpdateChallenges Asymmetrical throughput on LP between RF and the GRC

• Problem isolated to leg between Kelowna and Vancouver (TCP retransmits causing periodic sawtooth pattern throughput)

• Tests carried out by Shaw cleared their fibre plant• RF to replace transceivers in Kelowna and Vancouver however this can’t be

completed until after the 31st of December due to one particular customer requesting no interruption of service before that date

Outdoor Enclosure Operational Issues• The Switch, Server and PDU were relocated from the CRC Enclosure to the

BADLAB . The CRC GSN Node is fully operational again using green power from the CRC SPS when available.

Connectivity to International GSN Nodes• The three VLANs from HEAnet that were mapped to three STS circuits across

CANARIE have been reconfigured into one VLAN mapping to one STS circuit across CANARIE using VLAN ID 158

• LP-5 to HEAnet and LP-8 to NORDUnet connecting nodes from HEAnet and NORDUnet to the GSN Hub in Montreal will be re-arranged to terminate on the CANARIE Montréal Juniper MX480 Router

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GSN Infrastructure – Network

Link and servers to bedecommissioned

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GSN Infrastructure – Hardware deployed

Link and servers to be decommissioned

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GSN Federated Cloud L3 Network Architecture

CanadianGSN Hub

EuropeanGSN Hub

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GSN Node Document

Readers: Green ICT researchers Purpose: design rationale & lessons learnedCo-authored by CRC & iDeal

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Middleware WG

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Middleware HighlightsFive Resources

• PDU (Raritan and Servertech), Climate (Raritan), Host(Libvirt), Power Source (Outback Mate) and Facility Resources

Three Managers• Cloud, Facility and Network Managers

One ControllerGSN Cloud Features:

• Manage complete VM lifecycle• Monitor facility power use, power generation and environment• VM live migration over geographically distributed datacenters• Follow the Sun/Follow the Wind

– Optimize distribution of VMs according to availability of intermittently available green power

• VM High Availability• Export VM images between GSN Clouds• GSN Resource Management Center User Interface

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Architecture

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Final Deployment

Two GSN Clouds deployed1. Canadian GSN Cloud2. European GSN Cloud

Only one node deployed in EU Cloud at HEAnet – GD5• This is the European Hub node

Using a Virtual Facility to use simulated power data Everything is in place for a complete handoff to

European Partners to complete the full deployment

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Canadian GSN Deployment

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European GSN Deployment

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Future Deployment(logical deployment)

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Towards GSN 2.0

GSN 2.0 will be the 2nd major release of the GSN middleware which is implemented using IaaS 2.0

– Minimizes the amount of information needed to keep in memory and thus will allow the middleware container to run longer with less resource constraints

– Solve connectivity/reconnect issues to devices• If the connection to the device times out or fails, the middleware won’t

hang• Maintains better state of resources and can disseminate this information if

needed by other components• Better messaging for communication between components (Rabbit MQ)• Potential for redundancy and higher failure tolerance

– IaaS 2.0 uses the Akka Framework and Erlang

Migration ~95% complete and along with testing and verification will be the main focus of the GSN Extension

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OpenFlow Deployment

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OpenFlow Value Add

Enables dynamic control of network resource allocation With OpenFlow, the cloud control software can set the

network policies on the switch(es) to match the policies/SLA for the VMs without human intervention• This allows us to build a combined server/storage/network scheduler

that can optimize the VM placement based on configured policies

Tenant isolation using flow spaces Optimization of network flows between applications Ability to develop/enhance network protocols for Green IT

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GSN Topology in the Nox Controller

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OpenStack

Moving towards inter cloud federation Use Delta cloud API to federation the GSN cloud with many

commercial and open clouds Deployed at ETS @ http://207.162.8.40:8000 This work will be continued in the project extension period

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OpenStack Dashboard at ETS

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Demos

1. Export a VM image to the European GSN Cloud• Export will cross IP domains

2. High Availability• Trigger a failure on a server and watch how the cloud recovers

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Demo 1 – Export to EU GSN (animation)

Cloud ManagerCloud Manager

Host Resource

Host Resource

Cloud ManagerCloud Manager

Network ManagerNetwork Manager

VMVM VMVM

Mantychore2Mantychore2

Host Resource

Host Resource

Canadian GSN Domain

European GSN Domain

Dynamically ConfigureIP Tunnel

• Shudown VM• Copy Image

• Update VM Context• Start VM

Export VM

Notify EU Cloud Manager

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Demo 2 – High Availability (HA)

Hosts continually report back to their Libvirt resource by renewing a lease

This tells the Libvirt resource that the Host is healthy and reachable

If the lease expires, the Libvirt resource will trigger an HA Event to the Cloud Manager

The Cloud Manager will then start the VMs from the troubled host on another stable host

The restart is equivalent to a cold reboot of your computer

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Associate Partners WG

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Follow the wind/follow the sun: Mantychore collaboration - Development and implementation GSN infrastructure and middleware towards cross-domain integration of the Canadian and EU GSN hubs and nodes.- Provision of solar & wind renewal power metrics for GSN simulation research Note: Mantychore has made a request for continued access to CANARIE infrastructure and Canadian GSN nodes for the duration of 2012, for execution of additional EU GSN test case demonstrations using a robust version of IaaS GSN v.2.O software.

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GeoChronos relocation: GreenLight Collaboration - Under the leadership of GRC and GSN Research WG a series of power measurements of VM migration experiments were conducted with GSN corporate partner Rack Force and Cybera and associate partner calit2 geenlight project. (http://greenlight.calit2.net).

GSN Protocol Final External Critical Review: “ICT GHG Reduction Protocol: Quantification and Reporting.”

- Members of the GSN Technical Advisory Group, Yeves Lemieux (Ericsson), Dr. David Wright (University of Ottawa), Stephan Wehr (The Delphi Group) Jerry Sheehan (University of Southern California) and John Smiciklas (Research in Motion) provided their final critical review of ICT GHG Reduction Protocol: Quantification and Reporting.

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GSN's significance was greatly enhanced by a large group of national and international associate partners, each of whom measurably enhanced the project. Ericsson Canada Inc.: Location: Montreal, Quebec Participant: Yves Lemieux Contribution: Member of the Protocol Technical Advisory Group, Netvirt research project. Research In Motion: Location: Waterloo, Ontario Participant: John SmiciklasContribution: Member of the GSN Protocol Technical Advisory Group

University Of Ottawa Location: Ottawa, Ontario Participant: Prof David Wright. Telfer School Of ManagementContribution: Member of the Protocol Technical Advisory Group  The Delphi GroupLocation: Ottawa, Ontario Participant: Stephan WehrContribution: Member of the GSN Protocol Technical Advisory Group

GSN Associate Partners WG: Acknowledgment

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European Union

Mantychore Project

HEAnet: Location: Dublin IrelandParticipants: Victor Reijs, Andrew MackarelContribution: GSN Associate Partner WG, GSN EU hub, one wind node and two solar powered nodes, and provision of solar and wind renewal power metrics for GSN simulation research

ONLINE VC CONNECTION to HEAnet (Andrew Mackarel)

NORDUnet: Location: Kastrup, DenmarkParticipant: Alin PastramaContribution: Associate Partner WG, geothermal GSN node located in Reykjavik, Iceland i2cat: Location: Barcelona SpainParticipants: Sergi Figuerola, Pau MinovesContribution: Associate Partner WG, solar powered GSN node

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Xanfeon Ltd: Location: Suffolk United Kingdom Participant: Dr. Michael GellContribution: Independent and expert analysis and validation of GSN’s “ICT Greenhouse Gas Reduction Project Protocol: Quantification and Reporting”.

Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology (IBBT ) Location: Ghent-Ledeberg , BelgiumParticipants: Ward Van Heddeghem , Brecht Vermeulen, Didier Colle Contribution: research publications on green networks including GSN

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USA: California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (calit2)Location: San Diago, CaliforniaParticipants: Larry Smarr, Jerry Sheehan, Tom Defanti, Greg Hidley, Claudiu Farcas, Chris Misleh, Brian Dunne.Contribution: 2 GSN nodes, member of the GSN Protocol Technical Advisory Group, GSN/GreenLight (http://greenlight.calit2.net) collaborative research with GSN on power measurements of VM migration. Northwestern University NUIT: Location: Chicago IllinoisParticipant: Joe Mambretti, DirectorContribution: Member of Associate Partner Working Group

China:

Shanghai Research Center for Wireless Communications (WiCO)Location: Shanghai ChinaParticipants: Gary Wang, Ge Xiao Guang, Yves WANG, Yang Yang, Kun WeiContribution: GSN solar powered node, VIP presentation of GSN network between Canada and China demonstration. 

GSN Associate Partners WG: Acknowledgment

Research WG

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Publications over course of whole project (Jan 2010 to Dec 2011)- 13 publications accepted and/or published including 4 journal papers, 7 conference papers and 2 book chapters (status change to accepted and/or published for 3 papers since Sept 2011)- 5 publications currently in submission including 4 journal papers and 1 conference paper (4 papers submitted since Sept 2011)- paper topics range from resource discovery to cost aware scheduling to migration performance to the carbon protocol and GeoChronos relocation and more

Research highlights since September 2011

Continuation of research project with international partner- collaboration between GRC, RackForce, Cybera and UCalIT/GreenLight - aimed at examining energy consumed in migrating virtual machines under different conditions- many experiments have been run between GreenLight, Rackforce and Cybera GSN nodes- aim to publish a paper on results early this year

Continued development of GSN controller and simulator- work being carried out by CRC, ETS and ideal Consulting- follow the sun/wind controller makes decisions on how/when to best migrate virtual machines - simulator is aimed at evaluating the controller under various scenarios and parameters - initial Web-based front end for simulator has now been developed- currently working on GSN controller publication with plans to submit early this year

GSN Research WG Update

The GSN Simulator

America/Vancouver America/Halifax

Halifax, 200, [2,4]

VancouverB, Cfull, [2,4] ETS

VancouverA, Cfull, [2, 4]

America/Edmonton America/NewYork

CRC, 200, [2,4]

CyberaB, Cfull, [2,4] ETS

CyberaA, Cfull, [2, 4]

vs.

• Objective: to overcome the size and stability limitations of physical GSN network; study the relationships between many GSN dynamics and the implications on node sizing, node placement, etc.

• Virtual solar facilities are modeled closely after physical nodes; virtual facilities get loaded from file system when simulation starts

• It is easy to tweak the virtual GSN network’s topology, size, time zone offset between nodes, nodes’ battery capacity, op-hour values, and even swap controller algorithms, and compare results from different simulation setups, for example:

( Cfull is battery full capacity, and [2,4] represents op-hours )

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GSN Simulator Webapp• To provide researchers with a Google map view of simulation setups, and allow

them to tweak virtual facilities and overall setup via GUI• Simulations are run on the web server; when finished the researcher will get an

email, with simulation results in the main body and the detailed virtual GSN system log as an attachment

• Being built towards a social site, where researchers can share simulation templates, view other people’s activities and results, and study follow the sun/wind concept as a community

• Please visit sun-wind.badlab.crc.ca for the latest development!

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GUI tools

Controller [Farrahi2011]

Data collector[Farrahi2011]

Current: Real-Time “Green Inter-Cloud” Simulator

Real-timeCloud map

Cloud reader

optimizer

DC #1

DC #2

DC #3

Simulated VPC (CloudNet [Wood2011])[Farrahi2011]

Database

Wind simulator

VPC reader

Power reader

World map

maker

Videomaker

Home page

updater

Power simulator Power

simulator

Power simulator

User

VPNVPN

Real-time Map Real-time Map

Archived VideoArchived Video

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Carbon Model

User

Controller [Farrahi2011]

Data collector[Farrahi2011]

Future: Real-Time “Green Inter-Cloud” Implementation

DC #1 DC

#2

DC #3

GICloud implementaion (Enhanced with [Farrahi2010])

DatabaseReal-timewind data

MachineLearningmodule

Cloud reader

Power reader

World map

maker

Videomaker

Home page

updater

GUI toolsWind

readerGICloudreader

Real-timeCloud map

VPNVPN

Real-time Map Real-time Map

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optimizerCarbon ModelCost Model

Archived VideoArchived Video

GSN Project Continuation

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GSN Maintenance Extension• Partners

– ETS– CRC– Inocybe– Cybera

• Key Deliverables– Evolve GSN Middleware from Version 2.0.0.A to 2.0.0.RC1

by testing and improving documentation. (No new features)

– Long Term Usage Profiling (1 Month Data)– Limitations Profiling (Latency, Size, etc.)– Joint collaborative space with International partners

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EcoloTIC Project

• Description– Provincially funded project on GreenICT led by Ericsson,

providing a fully populated Telco Blade System (24 nodes) to build a cloud for production use in R&D.

• Partners– ETS, CIRAIG, Inocybe, Ericsson Canada, Canarie (?)

• Themes

– Virtualization and Resource Management– Network as a Service over WAN– Optimization and Intelligence– Carbon Lifecycle Assessment

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Future Directions• North Plan

– Part of Quebec Digital Economy Plan– Upcoming Discussions with HydroQuebec – Already was shown and mentioned to Quebec Ministers.

• Additional Future Themes

– Cognitive Management – High Scalability (Thousands of managed nodes)– Lowest latency via non blocking switch fabric– Dynamic Flow Optimizations using OpenFlow

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GSN version 2.0.0 Alpha Sneak-Peak

Lunch

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Partnership between GSN and WiCO, announced by Minister C. Gignac of MDEIE:GSN as a strong economic driver for regional development;Foundation for the digital economy strategy;Ingredient for Quebec's 'Plan Nord’, Premier’s project to develop Northern Quebec.

GSN project submitted to Prompt’s MDDEP financing for Green ICT projects that will reduce GHG: Professor M. Cheriet and Mathieu Lemay are contributing valuable GSN expertise to CIRAIG;

1st Green Standards Week held in September in Rome, Italy organized by ITU and the Ministry of Economic Development of Italy and hosted by Telecom Italia;

Participation in the NYSERDA/GSN workshop on September 8th;

Presentation to the ‘Entretiens Jacques-Cartier’ in the session on ‘Are Green ICT Technologies really Green?’ on September 3 and 4th at Concordia University and at ETS;

Presentation of GSN by Charles Despins as Co-Chair of the ‘Low Carbon IT Industry’ of the Low Carbon Earth Summit – 2011 that was held in Dacian in China, in October;

Launch of ‘EcoloTIC’, Quebec’s major Green ICT initiative: $30 million contribution from the Government and $40 million from six major industry players.

Future activity that will include GSNPrompt will host the Seventh ITU Symposium on ICTs, the Environment and Climate Change on 29-31 May 2012 in Montreal.

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Academia

Not-for-Profit Corporations

Industry

Government

International Partners

iDeal inc.

SIGMACO

USA Belgium Spain ChinaIreland

The GreenStar Network The GreenStar Network PartnersPartners

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