Sustainable IT in Universities and Colleges - Energy Efficient Configuration, Cooling & Power Supply in Data Centres : JISC

Sustainable IT in Universities and Colleges - Energy Efficient Configuration, Cooling & Power Supply in Data Centres

This is one of a series of workshops organised by the JISC funded Suste-IT project. The workshop will explore issues around energy efficient configuration, cooling and power supply in data centres and includes a tour of Cardiff University's facilities followed by a Q&A session.

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Aims of the workshop

Highlight the importance of collaboration between ICT departments and other departments within further and higher education institutions with an emphasis on estates and finance
Foster a community of interest across these department around sustainability and green issues in particular
Work with key target member organisations

Outline Programme

Time	Activity
10.00 - 10.30	Registration & Refreshments
10.30 - 10.40	Energy Efficient Data Centres - An Overview Peter James, Professor of Environmental Management, University of Bradford & Director, SusteIT
10.40 - 11.40	Holistic, Energy Efficient, Design at Cardiff Dr Hugh Beedie, Chief Technology Officer, University of Cardiff
11.40 - 12.40	Site tour followed by Q&A on Cardiff activities
12.40 - 13.40	Lunch
13.40 - 14.30	Energy Efficient Cooling Liam Newcombe, British Computer Data Centre Group
14.30 - 15.30	Free Cooling and Energy Efficient Computing - Lessons from the Hector National HPC Service Mike Brown, University of Edinburgh
15.30 - 16.15	Panel Discussion

This workshop is one of 6 workshops running over the next few months. Confirmed workshops that you also might like to attend are:

Sustainable ICT in Universities and Colleges: New Ways of Working
21 August 2008, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
The Sustainable Desktop? Achieving Energy Efficient PCs in Universities and Colleges, 2 September 2008, University of Sheffield

For more information about this project and future workshops you can also visit the project webpage (Suste-IT)

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