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TERATEC Forum 2012
Workshop 4 - Thursday, June 28, 2012, 14:00/17:30
Toward Green Computing Centers

Chairmen : Hervé LOZACH and François ROBIN, CEA

Whether for environmental or for financial reasons, there have been for the last few years a growing concern about the energy bill of HPC centers. Several reasons may explain this situation:

• An environmentally responsible attitude, because of the media coverage, has more and more impact on the image of companies or organizations involved in the deployment of large scale computing resources.
• The electricity bill of datacenters has become predominant in the running cost of IT equipment (well over the maintenance cost …).
• Initiatives aiming at gathering good practices and at certifying datacenters that put them in practice have already started. It cannot be excluded that these initiatives lead to mandatory standards.

In this context, R&D in this field is very active; technological breakthroughs are already available or will be available soon.

The 2012 workshop aims at investigating the domain from the standard, technology and R&D point of view.