http://www.frombarcelona.org/JordiTorresHomePage JORDI TORRES home page Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:35:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I expect 2009 to be a breakout year for Green Computing. What big news and events can we expect for Green Computing in 2009?. Preston Gralla, the editor of GreenerComputing, suggest top ten predictions for Green IT in the coming year.  An impressive post! Please, read it! http://www.greenercomputing.com/blog/2008/12/30/top-ten-predictions-green-it-2009 Preston's predictions summary: The Economic ... http://www.frombarcelona.org/JordiTorresHomePage/2008/12/31/happy-and-green-new-year-2009/ http://www.cs.duke.edu/nicl/acdc09 June 19th, 2009, Barcelona, Spain In conjunction with the 6th Intl. Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communications (ICAC 2009) SCOPE: Large server farms—from enterprise datacenters and giant-scale Internet services to utility and public cloud computing—are a critical part of the execution platform for many of today’s software programs. Interactive web services, ... http://www.frombarcelona.org/JordiTorresHomePage/2008/12/21/workshop-on-automated-control-for-datacenters-and-clouds-acdc-2009/ VTDC'09 will be held June 15, 2009, in Barcelona, Spain, in conjunction with ICAC'09 (The International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communications) http://www.grid-appliance.org/wiki/index.php/VTDC09 Important dates Submission deadline: February 20th, 2009 Notification of acceptance: March 23rd, 2009 Final manuscripts due: April 6, 2009 Workshop: June 15, 2009 Workshop scope The convergence of ... http://www.frombarcelona.org/JordiTorresHomePage/2008/12/21/vtdc-2009-the-3rd-international-workshop-on-virtualization-technologies-in-distributed-computing/ Barcelona, Spain, 15- 19 June 2009 http://icac2009.acis.ufl.edu/ IMPORTANT DATES Full paper:  11:59 EST, Jan 19, 2009 Workshop proposals: Sep 25, 2008 Demo/Exhibit proposals: Mar 20, 2009 SCOPE To deal with the increasing complexity of large-scale computing systems, computers and applications must learn to manage themselves in accordance with high-level guidance from humans – a vision that has ... http://www.frombarcelona.org/JordiTorresHomePage/2008/12/21/the-6th-international-conference-on-autonomic-computing-communications-icac-09/ Barcelona, Spain, 15 June 2009 http://autonomic.ac.upc.edu/GRIDmeetsAC/ In association with the 6th International Conference on Autonomic Computing & Communications http://icac2009.acis.ufl.edu/ IMPORTANT DATES Full paper: 23 February 2009 Author notification: 23 March 2009 Final manuscripts: 6 April 2009 SCOPE Scientific communities worldwide have constructed massive grids that contain several tens of thousands of CPU’s and several PetaBytes of storage. The complexity of ... http://www.frombarcelona.org/JordiTorresHomePage/2008/12/21/grids-meet-autonomic-computing-gmac-workshop/ Virtualization plays a key role in the Green and Cloud computing. There are several methods for server virtualization. This video from Infoworld offers a very interesting introductory overview of the three configurations for server virtualization we will discus in the EEDC course: Virtualization, Paravirtualization, OS Virtualization. Enjoy it now. Only ... http://www.frombarcelona.org/JordiTorresHomePage/2008/12/18/virtualization-for-dummies/ Here is a suggestion to the content of your class presentation and discussion: - Executive summary: problem addressed, solution proposed, results. Reading this it should be clear what problem is being solved (and not how it is, or how good the solution is, or your opinion of it). - Description: how serious ... http://www.frombarcelona.org/JordiTorresHomePage/2008/12/16/guidelines-for-eedc-presentations/ 34330 Execution Environments for Distributed Computing (EEDC), Spring 2009 Master in Computer Architecture, Networks and Systems (CANS) Computer Architectura Department (AC) Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) ECTS credits: 6 OFFICIAL COURSE DESCRIPTION : Guia docente” (Spanish) OBJETIVOS: El objetivo del curso es ofrecer una visión de los desarrollos y la investigación en ... http://www.frombarcelona.org/JordiTorresHomePage/2008/12/16/cans-master-execution-environments-for-distributed-computing-eedc-2009/ Green data centers must learn to measure how much power they’re consuming in order to reduce it. Then they can have before-and-after accounts of their consumption using the metric PUE (see my previous post). Experts say that the goal is to reduce the data center PUE. Nevertheless any project that ... http://www.frombarcelona.org/JordiTorresHomePage/2008/12/06/is-pue-by-itself-enough-do-we-need-another-metric/ It refers to a metrics used to determine the energy efficiency of a data center:  Power usage effectiveness (PUE). The PUE for a certain data center is obtained by dividing the amount of power entering the data center by the power used to run the computer infrastructure within it. PUE ... http://www.frombarcelona.org/JordiTorresHomePage/2008/12/06/do-you-want-to-know-what-pue-means/