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In this paper, we address the management of Data Centers (DCs) by considering their optimal integration with the electrical, thermal, and IT (Information Technology) networks helping them to meet sustainability objectives and gain primary energy savings. Innovative scenarios are defined for exploiting the DCs electrical, thermal, and workload flexibility as a commodity and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are proposed and used as enablers for the scenarios’ implementation. The technology and scenarios were evaluated in the context of two operational DCs: a micro DC in Poznan which has on-site renewable sources and a DC in Point Saint Martin. The test cases’ results validate the possibility of using renewable energy sources (RES) for exploiting DCs’ energy flexibility and the potential of combining IT load migration with the availability of RES to increase the amount of energy flexibility by finding a trade-off between the flexibility level, IT load Quality of Service (QoS), and the RES production level. Moreover, the experiments conducted show that the DCs can successfully adapt their thermal energy profile for heat re-use as well as the combined electrical and thermal energy profiles to match specific flexibility requests.
Tudor Cioara; Marcel Antal; Claudia (Pop); Ionut Anghel; Massimo Bertoncini; Diego Arnone; Marilena Lazzaro; Marzia Mammina; Terpsichori-Helen Velivassaki; Artemis Voulkidis; Yoann Ricordel; Nicolas Sainthérant; Ariel Oleksiak; Wojciech Piatek. Data Centers Optimized Integration with Multi-Energy Grids: Test Cases and Results in Operational Environment. Sustainability 2020, 12, 9893 .
AMA StyleTudor Cioara, Marcel Antal, Claudia (Pop), Ionut Anghel, Massimo Bertoncini, Diego Arnone, Marilena Lazzaro, Marzia Mammina, Terpsichori-Helen Velivassaki, Artemis Voulkidis, Yoann Ricordel, Nicolas Sainthérant, Ariel Oleksiak, Wojciech Piatek. Data Centers Optimized Integration with Multi-Energy Grids: Test Cases and Results in Operational Environment. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (23):9893.
Chicago/Turabian StyleTudor Cioara; Marcel Antal; Claudia (Pop); Ionut Anghel; Massimo Bertoncini; Diego Arnone; Marilena Lazzaro; Marzia Mammina; Terpsichori-Helen Velivassaki; Artemis Voulkidis; Yoann Ricordel; Nicolas Sainthérant; Ariel Oleksiak; Wojciech Piatek. 2020. "Data Centers Optimized Integration with Multi-Energy Grids: Test Cases and Results in Operational Environment." Sustainability 12, no. 23: 9893.
In this paper, we have considered Data Centres (DCs) as computing facilities functioning at the crossroad of electrical, thermal and data networks and have defined optimisation techniques to exploit their energy flexibility. Our methods are leveraging on non-electrical cooling devices such as thermal storage and heat pumps for waste heat reuse and IT workload execution time shifting and spatial relocation in federated DCs. To trade energy flexibility we have defined an Energy Marketplace which allows DCs to act as active energy players integrated into the smart grid, contributing to smart city-level efficiency goals. Reinforcing this vision, we have proposed four innovative business scenarios that enable next generation smart Net-zero Energy DCs acting as energy prosumers at the interface with smart energy grids within smart city environments. Simulation experiments are conducted to determine the DCs potential electrical and thermal energy flexibility in meeting various network level goals and to assess the financial viability of the defined business scenarios. The results show that DCs have a significant amount of energy flexibility which may be shifted and traded to interested stakeholders thus allowing them to gain new revenue streams not foreseen before.
Tudor Cioara; Ionut Anghel; Ioan Salomie; Marcel Antal; Claudia Pop; Massimo Bertoncini; Diego Arnone; Florin Pop. Exploiting data centres energy flexibility in smart cities: Business scenarios. Information Sciences 2018, 476, 392 -412.
AMA StyleTudor Cioara, Ionut Anghel, Ioan Salomie, Marcel Antal, Claudia Pop, Massimo Bertoncini, Diego Arnone, Florin Pop. Exploiting data centres energy flexibility in smart cities: Business scenarios. Information Sciences. 2018; 476 ():392-412.
Chicago/Turabian StyleTudor Cioara; Ionut Anghel; Ioan Salomie; Marcel Antal; Claudia Pop; Massimo Bertoncini; Diego Arnone; Florin Pop. 2018. "Exploiting data centres energy flexibility in smart cities: Business scenarios." Information Sciences 476, no. : 392-412.
Among the different renewable sources the "green" energy coming from wind or solar farms is often injected into the grid when it is not expected or there is no demand. The integration of photovoltaic and wind energy into the grid entails the need to provide proper solutions to a wide range of problems not entirely new to the network but still more critical. At the very heart of the INGRID European project, an ICT-based Energy Management System is being designed as the core of a self-adaptive & autonomic system in charge of dispatching the green energy among the smart grid, a hydrogen-based green-energy storage and an innovative urban mobility system
Diego Arnone; Massimo Bertoncini; Alessandro Rossi; Fabrizio D'Errico; Carlos García-Santiago; Diana Moneta; Cristiano D'orinzi. An ICT-based energy management system to integrate renewable energy and storage for grid balancing. Proceedings of the the fourth international conference on Future energy systems - e-Energy '13 2013, 259 -260.
AMA StyleDiego Arnone, Massimo Bertoncini, Alessandro Rossi, Fabrizio D'Errico, Carlos García-Santiago, Diana Moneta, Cristiano D'orinzi. An ICT-based energy management system to integrate renewable energy and storage for grid balancing. Proceedings of the the fourth international conference on Future energy systems - e-Energy '13. 2013; ():259-260.
Chicago/Turabian StyleDiego Arnone; Massimo Bertoncini; Alessandro Rossi; Fabrizio D'Errico; Carlos García-Santiago; Diana Moneta; Cristiano D'orinzi. 2013. "An ICT-based energy management system to integrate renewable energy and storage for grid balancing." Proceedings of the the fourth international conference on Future energy systems - e-Energy '13 , no. : 259-260.
Energy-aware service centers take into account energy consumption of infrastructures, machines, applications, storage systems, and their distributed computing architecture. The approach to energy efficiency in data centers in the GAMES (Green Active Management of Energy in IT Service centers) project is presented: Green Performance Indicators (GPIs), i.e., properties that, continuously monitored, evidence the level of consumed energy by the center’s IT resources, can be the basis of a systematic approach to increase energy efficiency. The GPIs are the basis for improving energy efficiency with adaptive actions and to achieve a higher level of green maturity, as prescribed, for instance, in the GreenGrid Data Center Maturity Model (DCMM), based on a usage-centric perspective in GPIs. The paper briefly describes monitoring of GPIs and the adaptation actions adopted to reach the green goals. Preliminary experimental results are discussed.
Barbara Pernici; Cinzia Cappiello; Maria Grazia Fugini; Pierluigi Plebani; Monica Vitali; Ioan Salomie; Tudor Cioara; Ionut Anghel; Ealan Henis; Ronen Kat; Doron Chen; George Goldberg; Micha Vor Dem Berge; Wolfgang Christmann; Alexander Kipp; Tao Jiang; Jia Liu; Massimo Bertoncini; Diego Arnone; Alessandro Rossi. Setting Energy Efficiency Goals in Data Centers: The GAMES Approach. Computer Vision 2012, 7396, 1 -12.
AMA StyleBarbara Pernici, Cinzia Cappiello, Maria Grazia Fugini, Pierluigi Plebani, Monica Vitali, Ioan Salomie, Tudor Cioara, Ionut Anghel, Ealan Henis, Ronen Kat, Doron Chen, George Goldberg, Micha Vor Dem Berge, Wolfgang Christmann, Alexander Kipp, Tao Jiang, Jia Liu, Massimo Bertoncini, Diego Arnone, Alessandro Rossi. Setting Energy Efficiency Goals in Data Centers: The GAMES Approach. Computer Vision. 2012; 7396 ():1-12.
Chicago/Turabian StyleBarbara Pernici; Cinzia Cappiello; Maria Grazia Fugini; Pierluigi Plebani; Monica Vitali; Ioan Salomie; Tudor Cioara; Ionut Anghel; Ealan Henis; Ronen Kat; Doron Chen; George Goldberg; Micha Vor Dem Berge; Wolfgang Christmann; Alexander Kipp; Tao Jiang; Jia Liu; Massimo Bertoncini; Diego Arnone; Alessandro Rossi. 2012. "Setting Energy Efficiency Goals in Data Centers: The GAMES Approach." Computer Vision 7396, no. : 1-12.
Multimodal interfaces are becoming more and more an emerging leading-edge area of interest in the Digital Art and Entertainment Domain. This paper aims at proposing a new approach to develop applications relying on integration of multimodal modules which can capture and collect the emotional states of the audience, process them and provide a final emotional output. A concrete framework has been designed and is being developed to provide application designers with a powerful and easy-to-use set of tools for building up multimodal affective interfaces. The proposed approach has been conceived inside the FP6 EU co-funded CALLAS (Conveying Affectiveness in Leading-edge Living Adaptive Systems) Project.
Diego Arnone; Alessandro Rossi; Massimo Bertoncini. An open source integrated framework for rapid prototyping of multimodal affective applications in digital entertainment. Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces 2010, 3, 227 -236.
AMA StyleDiego Arnone, Alessandro Rossi, Massimo Bertoncini. An open source integrated framework for rapid prototyping of multimodal affective applications in digital entertainment. Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces. 2010; 3 (3):227-236.
Chicago/Turabian StyleDiego Arnone; Alessandro Rossi; Massimo Bertoncini. 2010. "An open source integrated framework for rapid prototyping of multimodal affective applications in digital entertainment." Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces 3, no. 3: 227-236.
Angelo Corallo; G. Lorenzo; G. Solazzo; D. Arnone. Knowledge-Based Tools for E-Service Profiling and Mining. Mobile Information Systems 2006, 265 -291.
AMA StyleAngelo Corallo, G. Lorenzo, G. Solazzo, D. Arnone. Knowledge-Based Tools for E-Service Profiling and Mining. Mobile Information Systems. 2006; ():265-291.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAngelo Corallo; G. Lorenzo; G. Solazzo; D. Arnone. 2006. "Knowledge-Based Tools for E-Service Profiling and Mining." Mobile Information Systems , no. : 265-291.