The Institute for Energy Effectiveness at UC Santa Barbara presents our 2020 Arising Technologies Review. In this special year, IEE ETR happened in a collection of focused digital Friday workshops in October.
To see the discussions as well as panel sessions from these online events, please click the links listed below.
ETR Day 1: Energy Efficient Clouds as well as Data Centers Workshop
Raj Yavatkar: The Revolution in Data Center Communications and also Interconnects
Nicola Peill-Moelter: Hunting Zombies for Fun, sustainability, and profit
Rich Wolski: Energy Efficiency on the (IoT) Edge
Katharine Schmidtke: Cloud-Scale Interconnect Architectures in the Context of Hardware and also 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 Assimilation for Information Centers
William Wang: In The Direction Of Significantly Minimizing the Carbon Footprint of Device Knowing
Panel Session 1: Information Center as well as Cloud Effectiveness
Mediator: Tim Sherwood
Panelists: Jonathan Balkind, Brent Gorda, Michael Haney, Nicola Peill-Moelter, and Raj Yavatkar
Panel Session 2: The Optical Change in the Information Center and also the Cloud
Mediator: 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 Need Feedback to Fleet Electrification: A Look For High Effect 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 with 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 also 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
Deb 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
Mediator: Bob Wilkinson
Panelists: Olivier Jerphagnon, Chandra Krintz, Deb Perrone, Steven DenBaars, as well as Stuart Woolf
Wednesday, February 3, 2021
UC Santa Barbara's Institute for Energy Efficiency (IEE) as well as Facebook are revealing a brand-new collaboration that will speed up study right into energy-efficient data centers as well as fabricated intelligence (AI). Facebook, a leader in establishing, building, and running effective and extremely dependable data facilities, will provide a three-year, $1.5 million grant on behalf of the institute's introducing study.
Through this collaboration, IEE will examine sophisticated energy-efficient information facility framework consisting of low-power optical interconnects for calculate networks as well as device knowing (ML) with minimized carbon impact. Devoted to 100% eco-friendly energy since 2018, Facebook has actually long believed that the very first step is constantly to make use of the least quantity of energy feasible by developing and operating the most energy effective data centers in the sector. Facebook has committed to reaching net zero emissions across its value chain in 2030.
" We are deeply happy to Facebook for their kindness as well as assistance of the college as well as the Institute for Energy Efficiency," claimed Rod Alferness, dean of the College of Engineering. "This present will drive joint explorations of potentially world-changing services to substantially lower the power needed to drive important next-generation data facilities and applications of artificial intelligence."
" For even more than 10 years, Facebook has actually been concentrated on creating, structure and running some of one of the most reliable information facility facilities on the planet. We are thrilled that our study team will companion with UCSB's Institute for Energy Efficiency to aid drive technology," claimed Rachel Peterson, VP of Data Center Strategy at Facebook. "We look forward to collaborating to bring energy efficiency to the following degree."
Facebook will additionally help develop research tasks as well as provide IEE scientists with insight from their prior experiences making and running data centers. The tech leader currently has 8 operational data facility websites in the US, with five even more sites that have actually been announced yet not yet started operating.
" Facebook is a world leader in data facility efficiency, and also we enjoy to companion with them to further deliver the future generation of innovations to deliver efficiency gains," said IEE Director John Bowers, a notable professor of products and electric as well as computer design. "They will supply us with the issues that require to be resolved, and we will certainly work together to address them."
" We are thrilled to launch this research cooperation with IEE," stated Katharine Schmidtke, Facebook's supervisor of sourcing and study lead for the UCSB IEE collaboration. "We hope our payment will help cultivate research study in information facility power efficiency to transform technology in computing as well as interactions and to drive effectiveness in essential work such as AI/ML training as well as inference."
Improving Efficiencies for Data Centers, Artificial Intelligence and also Machine Learning
With the partnership powering its research study undertakings, IEE expects to make significant progression on two of its grand obstacles: achieving several orders-of-magnitude improvement in the effectiveness of both data facility and AI/ML workloads.
In recent times data centers have actually made substantial strides in energy performance, however there is still an immediate need for brand-new technologies to balance out the ongoing growth popular driven by new work such as ML, AI, and video. Historically, Moore's Law properly predicted the capability to balance out increasing computing needs with developments in semiconductor procedure innovation, making it possible for data facilities to scale in a convenient environmental footprint. In recent years process modern technology innovations have slowed down as essential physical restrictions are approached. To address this difficulty, IEE scientists are seeking a multi-faceted technique, targeting performance renovations in multiple locations. Computer technology professor Tim Sherwood as well as various other professors are developing new hardware as well as style to not just enhance the fundamental efficiency of web servers as well as processes , however also lower power utilized for cooling. Enhancement in algorithmic performance is likewise anticipated to produce considerable decreases in the information center power footprint related to AI as well as ML applications, and this job is being gone after by researchers such as William Wang. The institute's world course photonics professors, which includes Bowers, are concentrated on opening the next wave of effectiveness breakthroughs linked with interconnects; the essential technologies which offer high transmission capacity links between the compute nodes in addition to to individuals.
" IEE is a globe leader in silicon photonics, which is making it possible for greater capacity electronics through co-packaging of photonics as well as electronic devices . This research study is necessary to develop the future generation of high-capacity switching chips and also ends up being even extra essential for future generations of electronics," said Bowers, an worldwide prominent authority on silicon photonics and also optoelectronics.
" A present of this scale is absolutely transformative as well as very rare ," on front page claimed Wang, the Mellichamp Chair of Artificial Intelligence as well as Designs. "Last summer, we collaborated with the Facebook AI Group to construct an reasoning engine for Natural Language Processing that attained ten times more power effectiveness than the current model. It better shows the significance and possible effect of working with industrial companions to recognize real-world issues and link scientific research and design."
In acknowledgment of Facebook's gift, the college will call among the experimental data facility labs in Henley Hall the "Facebook Data Center Energy Efficiency Lab." A dedication and also recognition ceremony will certainly be arranged at a later date, as soon as state as well as county public health and wellness restrictions connected to the coronavirus are raised.
We are thrilled that our study group will companion with UCSB's Institute for Energy Efficiency to help drive technology," stated Rachel Peterson, VP of Data Center Strategy at Facebook. "We look forward to functioning with each other to bring energy performance to the next degree."
In recent years data facilities have made significant strides in power efficiency, yet there is still an urgent need for brand-new technologies to counter the continued growth in need driven by brand-new work such as ML, AI, and video clip. Improvement in mathematical effectiveness is additionally expected to yield substantial reductions in the information center power impact associated with AI as well as ML applications, and this work is being sought by researchers 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 attained ten times more power performance than the current design.