The Institute for Energy Effectiveness at UC Santa Barbara provides our 2020 Emerging Technologies Testimonial. In this unique year, IEE ETR took area in a collection of concentrated online Friday workshops in October.
To see the presentations and also panel sessions from these online events, please click on the web links listed below.
ETR Day 1: Energy Efficient Clouds as well as Data Centers Workshop
Raj Yavatkar: The Revolution in Data Center Communications and Interconnects
Nicola Peill-Moelter: Hunting Zombies for Fun, sustainability, as well as revenue
Rich Wolski: Energy Efficiency on the (IoT) Edge
Katharine Schmidtke: Cloud-Scale Interconnect Architectures in the Context of Hardware and 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, and also Cost
John Bowers: Photonic Assimilation for Information Centers
William Wang: Towards Dramatically Lowering the Carbon Impact of Artificial Intelligence
Panel Session 1: Information Center and also Cloud Effectiveness
Moderator: Tim Sherwood
Panelists: Jonathan Balkind, Brent Gorda, Michael Haney, Nicola Peill-Moelter, and also Raj Yavatkar
Panel Session 2: The Optical Transformation in the Data Facility as well as 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 Look For High Influence Solutions
Raphaële Clément: Towards the Next Generation of Energy Storage Solutions for the Grid as well as Electric Transportation
Igor Mezic: Improving Building Energy Efficiency through 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, as well as David Erne
ETR Day 3: Food-Energy-Water Nexus Workshop
Olivier Jerphagnon - Artificial Intelligence to Solve Practical Problems in the Food as well as Agriculture Sector
Chandra Krintz - The SmartFarm Project
Deb Perrone - Groundwater Depletion Amplifies the Water-Energy Nexus
Steve DenBaars - Development of Ultraviolet (UV) LED Technology for Disinfection and also 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 announcing a brand-new collaboration that will increase research study right into energy-efficient data centers as well as artificial knowledge (AI). Facebook, a leader in developing, structure, as well as running reliable as well as highly trustworthy data facilities, will provide a three-year, $1.5 million give on behalf of the institute's introducing research.
Via this partnership, IEE will certainly investigate innovative energy-efficient data facility infrastructure consisting of low-power optical interconnects for compute networks and also device understanding (ML) with decreased carbon impact. Dedicated to 100% renewable resource given that 2018, Facebook has long thought that the first action is always to make use of the least amount of power possible by constructing and running one of the most energy reliable data facilities in the industry. Facebook has actually devoted to reaching internet zero discharges throughout its value chain in 2030.
" We are deeply happy to Facebook for their kindness and assistance of the college as well as the Institute for Energy Efficiency," claimed Rod Alferness, dean of the College of Engineering. "This gift will drive joint discoveries of possibly world-changing options to considerably decrease the power required to drive crucial next-generation information centers and also applications of artificial intelligence."
" For more than 10 years, Facebook has been concentrated on designing, structure and also operating a few of one of the most effective information center facilities worldwide. We are delighted that our research team will certainly partner with UCSB's Institute for Energy Efficiency to assist drive technology," said Rachel Peterson, VP of Data Center Strategy at Facebook. "We anticipate interacting to bring energy performance to the following level."
Facebook will additionally help develop research study tasks and offer IEE scientists with understanding from their prior experiences developing and also operating data. The technology leader presently has eight operational information facility sites in the US, with 5 even more websites that have been revealed however not yet started operating.
" Facebook is a world leader in data center performance, and also we enjoy to companion with them to more supply the next generation of innovations to supply performance gains," said IEE Director John Bowers, a prominent teacher of products and electrical as well as computer system engineering. "They website will supply us with the troubles that require to be addressed, and we will interact to solve them."
" We are excited to introduce this research study cooperation with IEE," claimed Katharine Schmidtke, Facebook's supervisor of sourcing and research study lead for the UCSB IEE collaboration. "We wish our contribution will assist cultivate study in data center power performance to transform technology in computer and also interactions and also to drive efficiency in key workloads such as AI/ML training and inference."
Improving Efficiencies for Data Centers, Artificial Intelligence as well as Machine Learning
With the collaboration powering its study endeavors, IEE expects to make considerable ground on 2 of its grand difficulties: attaining numerous orders-of-magnitude renovation in the performance of both information facility and AI/ML workloads.
Recently data centers have made considerable strides in energy effectiveness, however there is still an immediate requirement for brand-new innovations to counter the ongoing development sought after driven by brand-new work such as ML, AI, and also video clip. Historically, Moore's Law appropriately predicted the ability to offset increasing computing demands with advances in semiconductor process technology, enabling data facilities to range in a convenient ecological impact. In current years procedure innovation innovations have actually reduced as basic physical restrictions are come close to. To resolve this difficulty, IEE scientists are going after a multi-faceted method, targeting effectiveness enhancements in multiple areas. Computer technology teacher Tim Sherwood and also various other professors are establishing new hardware and architecture to not just boost the integral performance of processes and web servers , yet likewise minimize power utilized for cooling. Improvement in algorithmic performance is additionally prepared for to produce considerable reductions in the data center power footprint linked with AI and also ML applications, as well as this work is being pursued by scientists such as William Wang. The institute's top quality photonics faculty, that includes Bowers, are focused on opening the following wave of effectiveness advancements connected with interconnects; the essential modern technologies which supply high data transfer connections between the calculate nodes in addition to to individuals.
" IEE is a globe leader in silicon photonics, which is allowing higher ability electronic devices through co-packaging of photonics and electronic devices . This study is necessary to develop the following generation of high-capacity switching chips and comes to be a lot more vital for future generations of electronics," said Bowers, an worldwide popular authority on silicon photonics and optoelectronics.
" A present of this scale is really unusual and most definitely transformative ," said Wang, the Mellichamp Chair of Artificial Intelligence and also Designs. "Last summertime, we collaborated with the Facebook AI Group to construct an reasoning engine for Natural Language Processing that achieved 10 times much more power effectiveness than the current version. It even more shows the significance and also prospective impact of dealing with industrial companions to understand real-world troubles as well as connect clinical research and also engineering."
In acknowledgment of Facebook's gift, the college will name among the experimental information center research laboratories in Henley Hall the "Facebook Data Center Energy Efficiency Lab." A commitment and also recognition event will be set up at a later date, as soon as state and area public health constraints connected to the coronavirus are raised.
We are thrilled that our study team will certainly partner with UCSB's Institute for Energy Efficiency to aid drive development," claimed Rachel Peterson, VP of Data Center Strategy at Facebook. "We look ahead to working with each other to bring energy effectiveness to the following degree."
In recent years information centers have actually made significant strides in power efficiency, yet there is still an urgent demand for new modern technologies to offset the ongoing growth in need driven by new work such as ML, AI, and video clip. Improvement in algorithmic performance is also expected to yield considerable decreases in the data facility power footprint linked with AI and ML applications, as well as this job is being pursued by scientists such as William Wang. "Last summer season, we worked together with the Facebook AI Group to construct an inference engine for Natural Language Processing that accomplished 10 times much more power efficiency than the present version.