Energy conservation can not ignore the information technology – data center green IT, IBM, server -
Article by jekky
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore in his department environmental documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” had expressed, for saving our planet, and everyone can do, including the use of energy-saving products, to develop energy-efficient habits. From the IT point of view, not only in the product itself to the green, it is necessary to help, through information technology Other Industry to achieve energy saving. Can not ignore the energy consumption dataRecently, the National Development and Reform Commission, the International Cooperation Center and sponsored by IBM, “Information technology and energy saving” forum, the State Development and Reform Commission Zhang, director of international cooperation rushed IDG reporters that the current government of China 80 billion yuan per year energy consumption, 50% of energy consumption from IT products. IBM Greater China chief executive officer of the money crowd is to IDG (www.cnw.com.cn), told reporters that as China’s rapid economic growth, the size of China’s economy accounted for nearly 5% of the world However, China needs energy and resource consumption accounting for nearly 15% of the world. In addition, Zhang Chong, said, in recent years, energy consumption in IT products 8% ~ 10% annual growth rate. According to estimates, 2007, China’s total power consumption of IT products from 300 billion to 50,000,000,000 degrees, almost equivalent to China’s Three Gorges power station generating capacity a year, of which the energy consumption of data center IT products accounted for 40% of the total energy consumption. Not only that, according to industry estimates, IT products carbon dioxide emissions from power at least to the 35 million tons. “In this context, the development of energy saving, environmental protection, high efficiency as the core values of green IT products and related technologies, will be leading a new generation of IT products focus on innovative content revolution.” Zhang Chong said. State Information Center, Ning Jiajun, chief engineer, said the Shanghai Supercomputing Center’s supercomputer speed of 10 trillion times per second, light consumption of electricity per year reached 4.8 million yuan, the equivalent of a small county power scale. Even so, the Shanghai Super Computer Center, or because the chip uses less energy to achieve this result. He said that under the original plan, the Shanghai Super Computer Center is designed system requires 5094 CPU to achieve the same performance space needs 683 square meters, the annual electricity needs of 16 million yuan to run. “It is because the lower energy consumption by the CPU, it makes to achieve the same performance, only an area of 185 square meters, while only 4.8 million yuan per year of electricity.” Ning Jiajun said, “This shows server power consumption to address the problem, the chip is a key link. ” In addition, the Ning Jiajun that in the current situation, energy conservation is an inevitable choice for all sectors, while energy saving green IT is an important way, for this reason that our country will be saving in the electronic information industry Saving more than put forward a related policies. Can not ignore the information technologyIBM China’s chief technology officer, Tian-being, IDG (www.cnw.com.cn), told reporters that information technology should be a correct view of the relationship between emission reduction and energy conservation, first need to understand the field of information technology itself how to do energy saving, There is also need to see the information technology used in other energy saving and green technology possibilities. Money crowd, said the data center itself needs not only energy saving, more importantly, through information technology to help energy conservation in all sectors of the work. For example, he said, now average per server system of its capacity to 10 million document information, but when dealing with river pollution prevention, monitoring, analysis may need to deal with 10 trillion document information per second, which made the information system high challenge.