The Institute for Power Performance at UC Santa Barbara presents our 2020 Emerging Technologies Review. In this special year, IEE ETR happened in a collection of focused online Friday workshops in October.
To check out the discussions as well as panel sessions from these digital occasions, please click the web links listed below.
ETR Day 1: Energy Efficient Clouds and also Data Centers Workshop
Raj Yavatkar: The Revolution in Data Center Communications and Interconnects
Nicola Peill-Moelter: Hunting Zombies for Profit, fun, and sustainability
Rich Wolski: Energy Efficiency on the (IoT) Edge
Katharine Schmidtke: Cloud-Scale Interconnect Architectures in the Context of Hardware as well as Software Codesign
Daniel Blumenthal: Low Energy Frequency Stabilized Coherent WDM for Data Center Interconnects
Robert Blum: The Promise of Co-Packaged Optics: Paving the Way for Improved Power Efficiency, Size, as well as Cost
John Bowers: Photonic Combination for Data Centers
William Wang: Towards Significantly Decreasing the Carbon Footprint of Equipment Discovering
Panel Session 1: Data Facility as well as Cloud Efficiency
Moderator: Tim Sherwood
Panelists: Jonathan Balkind, Brent Gorda, Michael Haney, Nicola Peill-Moelter, and Raj Yavatkar
Panel Session 2: The Optical Transformation in the Information Center and also the Cloud
Moderator: John Bowers
Panelists: Alexis Bjorlin, Robert Blum, Gordon Keeler, Kaushik Patel, and also Clint Schow
ETR Day 2: Smart Societal Facilities Workshop
Sila Kiliccote: From Demand Action to Fleet Electrification: A Browse for High Impact Solutions
Raphaële Clément: Towards the Next Generation of Energy Storage Solutions for the Grid and Electric Transportation
Igor Mezic: Improving Building Energy Efficiency via Machine Learning
Gary Barsley: Southern California Edison Grid Updates/ EV Plans
Mahnoosh Alizadeh: Real-Time Control Mechanisms for Community Energy Management
David Erne: Towards a Zero-Carbon Electric Grid
Sangwon Suh: Moving Bits Not Watts
Panel Session: Towards a Smart Societal Infrastructure Built on a Smart Grid
Mediator: Igor Mezic
Panelists: Mahnoosh Alizadeh, Sila Kiliccote, Gary Barsley, and David Erne
ETR Day 3: Food-Energy-Water Nexus Workshop
Olivier Jerphagnon - Artificial Intelligence to Solve Practical Problems in the Food and Agriculture Sector
Chandra Krintz - The SmartFarm Project
Deborah Perrone - Groundwater Depletion Amplifies the Water-Energy Nexus
Steve DenBaars - Development of Ultraviolet (UV) LED Technology for Disinfection as well as Sterilization for COVID-19
Stuart Woolf - A Perspective from the California Agricultural Industry
Panel Session: The Food-Energy-Water Nexus
Moderator: Bob Wilkinson
Panelists: Olivier Jerphagnon, Chandra Krintz, Deb Perrone, Steven DenBaars, and also Stuart Woolf
Wednesday, February 3, 2021
UC Santa Barbara's Institute for Energy Efficiency (IEE) as well as Facebook are revealing a new collaboration that will certainly accelerate study right into energy-efficient data centers and also man-made intelligence (AI). Facebook, a leader in developing, structure, as well as operating very trustworthy and reliable data facilities, will supply a three-year, $1.5 million give in assistance of the institute's pioneering research.
With this collaboration, IEE will examine advanced energy-efficient information center framework including low-power optical interconnects for compute networks and also machine understanding (ML) with reduced carbon impact. Committed to 100% renewable resource because 2018, Facebook has long thought that the primary step is always to make use of the least amount of energy feasible by building as well as running the most energy reliable information centers in the industry. Facebook has actually dedicated to reaching internet no emissions throughout its worth chain in 2030.
" We are deeply grateful to Facebook for their generosity and also support of the university and also the Institute for Energy Efficiency," stated Rod Alferness, dean of the College of Engineering. "This gift will certainly drive collective discoveries of possibly world-changing services to substantially lower the power called for to drive important next-generation information centers and applications of equipment knowing."
" For more than 10 years, Facebook has actually been concentrated on designing, structure and running a few of one of the most effective data facility facilities on the planet. We are thrilled that our research study team will certainly partner with UCSB's Institute for Energy Efficiency to aid drive advancement," said Rachel Peterson, VP of Data Center Strategy at Facebook. "We eagerly anticipate collaborating to bring energy efficiency to the following level."
Facebook will certainly also aid establish study projects and also supply IEE researchers with understanding from their prior experiences creating and running data. The technology leader currently has 8 operational information center sites in the United States, with five even more sites that have actually been announced yet not yet begun operating.
" Facebook is a globe leader in data facility efficiency, as well as we are happy to companion with them to more deliver the next generation of innovations to supply performance gains," claimed IEE Director John Bowers, a distinguished teacher of products and electric and also computer system engineering. "They will supply us with the troubles that require to be resolved, as well as we will interact to fix them."
" We are thrilled to release this research study cooperation with IEE," said Katharine Schmidtke, Facebook's supervisor of sourcing and also research lead for the UCSB IEE collaboration. "We hope our payment will aid foster study in data facility energy performance to transform modern technology in computer and interactions and also to drive efficiency in vital workloads such as AI/ML training and also inference."
Improving Efficiencies for Data Centers, Artificial Intelligence and also Machine Learning
With the partnership powering its research ventures, IEE expects to make considerable headway on 2 of its grand challenges: accomplishing multiple orders-of-magnitude renovation in the efficiency of both data facility and AI/ML work.
In current years information facilities have actually made substantial strides in power performance, yet there is still an urgent requirement for new innovations to counter the ongoing growth in demand driven by new workloads such as ML, AI, as well as video. To address this challenge, IEE researchers are pursuing a multi-faceted technique, targeting effectiveness enhancements in numerous locations. Renovation in algorithmic efficiency is likewise Facebook expected to generate considerable reductions in the data center power footprint associated with AI and ML applications, and this work is being pursued by researchers such as William Wang.
" IEE is a world leader in silicon photonics, which is enabling higher capacity electronics through co-packaging of photonics and electronics . This research study is necessary to create the future generation of high-capacity switching chips as well as ends up being much more important for future generations of electronics," said Bowers, an internationally renowned authority on silicon photonics and optoelectronics.
" A gift of this scale is definitely transformative and really uncommon ," claimed Wang, the Mellichamp Chair of Artificial Intelligence and also Designs. "Last summertime, we worked together with the Facebook AI Group to develop an inference engine for Natural Language Processing that achieved ten times more energy efficiency than the existing version. It additionally shows the value and potential influence of dealing with industrial partners to recognize real-world troubles as well as link scientific research and also design."
In acknowledgment of Facebook's gift, the university will certainly call among the experimental data facility labs in Henley Hall the "Facebook Data Center Energy Efficiency Lab." A commitment and recognition event will certainly be arranged at a later date, once state and also area public health and wellness limitations related to the coronavirus are lifted.
We are delighted that our research study team will companion with UCSB's Institute for Energy Efficiency to aid drive advancement," said Rachel Peterson, VP of Data Center Strategy at Facebook. "We look forward to functioning with each other to bring energy efficiency to the following degree."
In recent years data facilities have actually made significant strides in energy performance, however there is still an urgent need for brand-new innovations to offset the ongoing growth in demand driven by brand-new workloads such as ML, AI, and also video clip. Enhancement in algorithmic effectiveness is likewise anticipated to produce considerable reductions in the information center power footprint linked with AI as well as ML applications, and this job is being pursued by scientists such as William Wang. "Last summer season, we collaborated with the Facebook AI Group to build an inference engine for Natural Language Processing that attained ten times extra power efficiency than the existing model.