HP Laboratory Disclosure NET 0 Data center and situational Perception analysis technology

With the explosion of new businesses such as cloud computing and data value discovery, data centers are increasingly becoming the focus of global attention. IDC predicted that, in 2020, the total number of servers owned by all IT departments globally will be 10 times times more than today (including virtual machines and physical machines), and the data managed by them is 50 times times higher, but there are also problems that cannot be overlooked, and the huge power consumption brought by data centers is becoming a growing bottleneck, and caused widespread concern. Recently, in view of data center construction and data value topic, bit net interviewed HP company senior academician, HP Laboratory acting Director Chandrakantd.patel, and HP China Research Institute Dean Dr. Wang.
NET 0 Data Center two years after commercial
Mr Chandrakantd.patel said the global IT industry was facing tremendous opportunities for growth, both large and small, eager to improve productivity through effective use of IT technology. At present, only 30% of the world's people have access to data services, in other words, 70% of the world's people do not enjoy IT services. Cloud computing centers have high hopes for reducing the cost of product ownership and service delivery. But the problem of energy consumption in cloud computing data centers is becoming increasingly urgent, how to build a low-cost, high-performance and energy efficient data center?
Talking about the future of the data center design, Chandrakantd.patel revealed that the future of the data center design needs to have several features: first, the operation of the data center of the source of energy is diversified, such as solar, wind, geothermal energy, biomass and so on; second, the heat dissipation is also diversified. As a result, HP Labs has done a series of work around the data center's energy supply and energy conservation, and has first proposed the concept of net 0 Data Center (net-zerodatacenter) in the world. It is reported that compared to the world's best data centers, the net 0 data center energy consumption can be reduced by 50%.

HP set up a net 0 data center in Paroo, California

NET 0 data centers, as the name suggests, do not rely on traditional grid power, rely on a variety of energy to ensure the operation of the data center. According to reports, Hewlett-Packard set up in the California Paroo Data center, using solar, wind and bioenergy energy combination, such as in the livestock farm, the use of burning biomass to convert to methane, and then into electricity to support the operation of the data center. "At present, the net 0 data center has already started to carry on the ecological modular construction, expects to be able to deliver to use in two years time." Also hope that more and more customers can proactively submit demand, such as there is a farm, there are a lot of waste, look forward to combining solar energy, wind energy, build a data center, save energy. HP can help companies achieve. ”
Of course, the traditional power supply is still used as a standby energy option in the case of the instability and supply security of diversified energy sources such as solar energy, wind energy and bioenergy. Chandrakantd.patel approved the claim that solar energy collection has a curve process, and wind energy is not particularly stable, but bioenergy is almost stable. HP Labs, for example, inspected a number of farms in the United States and found that each cow was excreted at 55 kilograms per day, and 2000 cows ' waste eventually became methane, enough to supply 1 million watts of data centers and run smoothly.

As for the location of the data center, Chandrakantd.patel said the example is a livestock plant, but in fact there are many other sources, such as waste treatment plants, such as chemical plants, can be used as a source of energy, while protecting the environment. We have just talked about biological waste, municipal waste and chemical waste, which are energy efficient sources. The data center is modular and compact. He also summed up three factors to be considered in building data centers in China: electricity, networks, and cooling. In the location of the time to weigh, as far as possible use of natural energy, electricity as a back-up.

From data to value: emotional perception

Today more and more enterprises focus on the process from data to value. "Through the process of data, storage, processing, analysis, content, revelation, action to result, help customers transform data into value." Situational perception analysis is one of the key research areas of HP China Institute. Dr Wang, dean of HP's China Research Institute, said that perceptual analysis (context-awarecomputing) was the highlight of the next 10 years, and that the focus of perceptual analysis was how to collect and use the perceived information to provide better services.

She also cited an example in which the motives of the search for Starbucks in Beijing and New York were different, so the position became a perception factor. It is not difficult to see that the network search gradually has the position of perception. Another factor is time, before the Spring festival in Beijing, before Thanksgiving in New York, search for "holiday activities" to get a completely different result. In fact, the same examples are numerous, especially the information developed in the present, personal information such as hobbies, etc., in micro-blogging platforms are embodied, if the business can be very good use of this information, can better serve and customers, is also a huge business opportunity.

Although on the surface, different applications of the scene and perception types are not the same, but in fact there are commonalities, HP tried to use forward-looking thinking, summed up these commonalities, and then set up the application of different application of perceptual analysis system framework. Moreover, HP acquired autonomy in the field of unstructured data analysis, combining its dynamically generated web-recommended products to try to truly implement dynamic Automation recommendations: Generate dynamic recommendations in real time based on situational awareness.

Mr. Chandrakantd.patel said that the analysis of data information is the focus of HP research areas, Hewlett-Packard has a good condition to carry out the study, such as through vertica and autonomy tools such as in-depth research. Dr. Wang also revealed that the HP research project includes not only the situational perception of the network or social media, but also the situational perception system within the enterprise, studying how to adapt the performance of the application or system to the relevant users or scenarios, and explore more complex scenarios in the future, as well as presenting the available information in a variety of calculations.

(Responsible editor: Schpeppen)