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In this age of climate change, as we seek to minimise our energy consumption within the ICT industry and society as a whole, the issue of Green IT has become highly topical. Green IT is also of interest to Policy Makers, with discussions emerging about the potential regulation of data centres and a new Code of Conduct for Energy Efficiency aimed at data centre owners in the European Union. Green IT is a focal point in OGF.

To realise effective Green IT, OGF are bringing together key stakeholders and technologists, identifying necessary capabilities, possible common practices and potential areas of standardisation. Key issues that will be addressed by OGF include defining the metrics and tools to measure energy efficiency, such as Power Usage Effectiveness and Data Centre Efficiency, and understanding how we might better orchestrate the use of shared infrastructure, to reflect energy policy decisions and the distribution of workloads based on energy requirements and established policies.

Coming at a crucial time, the community-driven session led by OGF-Europe in Catania this March aims to shed light on the challenges of Green IT and arrive at an understanding of the implications from a standards perspective. Building on the outcomes of an introductory workshop at OGF23 in Barcelona, and the launch of the new Code of Conduct last November, the session is designed as a call to action for the community to work in key areas of contribution. ‘This will enable us to design more efficient infrastructures with minimal carbon impact, operate the infrastructures in line with energy policies allowing the user to devise the most efficient use of energy resources, and identify areas where standards can be developed to incorporate the necessary functionality’, says Ian Osborne, OGF’s VP of Enterprise.

The Green IT session at OGF25 will explore use cases, and review advances in technology that can assist the efficient deployment of compute capability. It will also feature a discussion about a reference model for end-to-end energy management, the components of which may include monitoring and measuring, decision support tools, and enactment tools. Speakers include: Liam Newcombe, Romonet/BCS Data Centre Specialist Group – the architect of the EU Code of Conduct and developer of an engineering model for energy consumption in the data centre, and Paul Strong, Distinguished Scientist at e-Bay and OGF Board Member.

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