The Low-carbon Road to cloud computing: Green It is a responsibility

Introduction: Moore's Law: The Extraordinary Technological innovation fruit contains a very ecological consequences. Low-carbon Revolution: It industry to carry "green big tents" blow "assembly number". "Cloud computing" cohesion through the Internet to serve thousands of households. E-commerce "golden Age" has become energy-saving emission reduction "booster." Professor Xiong's new book, "Low-carbon Road redefining the world and our Lives", is a science for the masses. Clear theme, rich content, fluent language, informative, easy to understand, fascinating, "through real live stories and plain narrative, the reader into the forefront of climate change and energy revolution, for you to carry out the panoramic picture of the Low-carbon world." The author of the Crown has such as "chairman", "the Secretary-General", "" President "," director "and many other titles, but we most value" Professor "this name, because he is more objective, more rational, more credible, tireless to tell you a truth:" Green Low-carbon Road is not only a solemn responsibility to bear, At the same time pregnant with a rare development opportunities and new life fashion, ' earth people ' face a heavy reflection and can not avoid the choice. Because of my many years ' working life ' in Zhongguancun, Beijing, in the heart of IT industry has a special feeling, read the "Low-carbon Road Green It" is also very attentively-"the mind of the official thinking," in reading thinking, not only Kai wisdom, but also produce a pleasure. In addition, the book's binding is very good, paper giant, footer and very wide, I study, while thinking, edge painting way, side notes, sorting out a note, the right to read notes, recorded in the following, can be used for reference.

Moore's Law: Extraordinary technological innovation has a very ecological bitter fruit

"Integrated electronics is the future of electronics," said Mr. Moore, a famous electronics expert, in an article April 19, 1965. The advantage of integration brings about the prosperity of electronics, which permeates many new fields. Integrated circuits bring many wonders, such as new products such as home computers. "The young research director boldly predicts that the number of transistors that can be accommodated on integrated circuits will increase by one times every 18 months, and that performance will rise by one and a half, and that the performance of every dollar can be doubled every 18 months." This is what the industry experts later called "Moore's Law." In the 1999, Mr Ross proposed a new Moore's law, the "Optical Fiber Law": "Internet broadband will increase by one times every 9 months, and the cost will be reduced by half." The essence of these two laws is that it is a human spirit that makes Silicon Valley.

Nowadays in the world, the computer has "flown into the ordinary people's home", become a moment we can not leave the production and life tools. According to China's Internet Information Center statistics, China's "netizen" scale has reached nearly 400 million people, is the world's largest. Today's life of the Earth's people, from business operations, innovative inventions, financial investment, news media, medical treatment, school education, recreational activities, shopping exchanges, information transmission, to party management and military operations, any complex social activities, without computer system support, has been completely unthinkable. Industry experts warned: "If the computer system crashes, you and I sitting in front of the screen he and the world's most powerful military machine will feel the unprecedented helplessness and even despair, as if the world back to the Stone Age." "I think this is not alarmist, but a true portrayal of life."

Extremes are the dialectics of the development of all things in the world. Needless to said, "the rapid development of IT industry, but also brought environmental disaster." Our Earth's homes are facing serious pollution. The result of the climate experts ' study is that the production process of a personal computer consumes 1.8 tons of chemical, fossil, and water, which is a similar impact to the production of a car. Production is not easy, degradation is more difficult. A computer equipment composed of more than 1000 kinds of materials, many substances contain highly toxic, scattered in space, seriously polluting the environment, greatly affecting human life. The research data of medical experts are even more alarming: each computer screen in the picture tube contains 8 pounds of lead, the circuit board also contains this material, lead can destroy the body's nerves and blood circulation, waste computer chrome and mercury, arsenic and countless heavy metals, can be "killed in the invisible" executioner. Experts also say, "Computer is a pile of packaging stored in a plastic box and can quickly calculate the toxic substances, even if thrown in the open or buried, incineration, can not inhibit the pollution of the Earth human home." The annoying thing is that "rich countries" have beggar-thy-neighbour sending such poisonous rubbish to "poor countries", the name of which is "international trade".

From a "carbon" perspective, the IT industry emits 2% of the world's carbon emissions, as much as air traffic, and is rapidly outpacing the industry's emissions from development. According to experts, 25% of the computer's carbon emissions come from the manufacturing process, while 75% of the carbon emissions come from the use process. Each computer uses 0.1 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year to emit. "If American college students can turn on the power-saving functions of their computers, they can save 2.3 billion degrees a year and reduce their carbon emissions by 1.8 million tonnes, equivalent to a reduction of 350,000 vehicles." As a result, China's 400 million netizens can form a good "low-carbon life" habit, what is the "boundless" Ah!

Low Carbon Revolution: IT industry to carry "green big tents" blow "assembly number"

It industry elites should face the social responsibility frankly: since it is the problem that oneself creates trouble, of course also be duty-bound to swallow this bitter fruit, the bell still needs to fasten a person, use the intelligence of the human brain and the function of the computer turn the problem into opportunity. It is gratifying that the conscience of the elite has become action, not only in the moral rise of the "green big tents", and in action also sounded the "assembly number", as a "Low-carbon revolution" vanguard. The manufacturing enterprise Shang the "road map" of the advance.

Make a big fuss over the four aspects of "hardware manufacturing", "product packaging", "Product recycling" and "enterprise operations" to reduce consumption and reduce emissions. However, the industry agreed that "the real root cause of the road from the design and manufacture of the source, so as to achieve energy saving and consumption can be achieved with less effort." "Apple in the" reduce the use of toxic materials, Hewlett-Packard positioning "Environmental Design concept" to design smaller, thinner, lighter products, Dell in the control of "excessive packaging" and recycling, the disputes have achieved low carbon emission reduction effect. In particular, HP in the laser printing products developed "0-second preheating" and "double-sided printing" technology, winning the user's praise such as tide.

The "Big Mac" supercomputer is the first. Supercomputers are the backbone of the storage center, the body fat, occupies a large area, the power consumption is staggering. According to 2006 data, the computer centers in Germany need to build a nuclear power station to meet the demand, the United States data centers consume 61 Billion-kilowatt of the electricity, accounting for 1.5% of the national power consumption, electricity tariffs as high as 4.5 billion U.S. dollars, is expected to double in 2011 to meet demand. Experts point out that the current global 35 million servers in the annual electricity consumption of 29 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for more than half the cost of the server. The cost of energy consumption has accounted for the 30–50% of the IT industry's operating costs. In view of this, IBM first put forward a "comprehensive solution", this is the famous "green innovation", in the heat exchanger innovation to launch the "cooling door" and "Idle Standby", has achieved great success.

The "Consumption reduction" method is as important as the search technology. Google, the world's largest data center, is doing its best. Industry experts estimate that a simple Google search consumes enough electricity to have a 11 watt energy-saving light up to one hours. A physicist's careful calculation: two of Google's search for carbon dioxide emissions, almost as much as the burning of a pot of water emissions. Environmental experts believe: a Google search for carbon emissions in between 1-10 grams?? Although a senior vice president of Google dismissed it as "a Google search would only produce about 0.2 grams of carbon dioxide a year," Google's energy problem in computing centers has been highly valued in recent years. Google has built a new so-called world's largest, the best performing data centers, which consume nearly as much electricity as a household in a small city, are located in the Columbia R. shore of the Oregon State north of the United States, considering the availability of electricity at the site, the cheap electricity prices, and the availability of enough water to calm the "feverish" computers.

Turning Silicon Valley into a "solar valley" is not a myth. The huge level of energy consumption in the IT industry has forced many Silicon Valley companies to turn to sources of energy and develop new energy technologies that transform solar power into solar energy. The basic materials for producing solar panels of polysilicon and computer chips are silicon in Silicon Valley. Google's biggest momentum was the high-profile announcement of its "Day Trip" in 2007, with the prospect of producing 1 megawatts of electricity from renewable sources enough to meet the demand for electricity across the San Francisco market. Google paints its own vision of technology-"fixed-mirror technology + gas turbine technology + solar power Plant installation process." "Google has been looking for unique materials for the mirror to better track the sun, to reflect the sun's rays and to focus the sun on objects that want to be heated," said Will. "It is reported that the technology has been tested in the desert area early this year into internal use." Google CEO Eric Schmidt solemnly announced that "Google's energy program is Google can do for the global good, more beneficial to Google's business." "Google's goal is to not use coal at all in 2030."

Computer expert Maikenili put forward "network is the computer" idea is 20 years later was recognized by the IT industry, which is now the industry's hottest "cloud computing" originator. Although the interpretation of "cloud computing" in the era of "Hundred Schools of thought", but there is a striking consensus on its core content-"Technically, cloud computing is based on computer computing capabilities, storage capabilities, platform capabilities, software capabilities of the operating services, but they are placed on the Internet, by each other, alone, leading the coquettish, Change to exchange of needs, complement each other, unite the army, better for the tens of thousands of services, the need to pay for it. "Experts do a description of the image-" Today, in the broadband network rapid and large-scale popularization, the computer capacity and storage capacity of the same as the same as the power of the Cloud ' provides public resources, businesses will no longer need their own data centers, and individuals need not have their own desktop software, people can put the current main storage in the PC and other terminal equipment storage content and computing power into the ' Cloud ', when needed with the use of, at your fingertips, just as we use tap water and electricity today, turn on the faucet and switch on the line. ”

The effect of "cloud computing" on energy saving and emission reduction is surprising. "The most immediate benefit is that with the centralization and optimization of idle computing power, hardware acquisition costs will plummet, both in ' cloud ' and ' terminal '," industry experts say. "Cloud computing can reduce hardware costs by 40 times times," says Prof Lee, a renowned it expert. Without cloud computing, Google will buy more than $64 billion trillion of equipment each year, with just 1.6 billion dollars in cloud computing. "He thinks 99% of web apps will need cloud computing in the future." Professor Xiong, after introducing the development of cloud computing, said with infinite emotion, "30 years Hedong, 30 years of Hexi." The popularity of personal computers, which ended the dominance of IBM's once-regarded mainframe as a dinosaur, brought the world into a vibrant information age, and now cloud computing is starting to take us back to the mainframe era, but it will be a higher level of return. The founder of IBM, Watson, said the world needed only 5 computers, and Microsoft's founder, Mr. Gates, said in a speech that PC memory is only 640K. Users no longer have to upgrade their computer hardware configuration, savings will be a huge amount of computer hardware and computing power, through the centralized control of cloud computing, according to the entire cluster of resource usage, to enable or hibernate some of these machines to meet demand, what can be more energy-saving emission reduction than this! ”

E-commerce "golden Age" has become a "booster" for energy saving and emission reduction

E-commerce first appeared in the 1990s, is a new business model with the rapid development of network technology. It has high efficiency, low cost, digitization, globalization and other characteristics, for enterprises and consumers to provide a vast market without time and space constraints. Now E-commerce has penetrated into our lives in the middle, if the support of E-commerce equipment failure, such as the Internet pause, data center shock, room power failure, computer poisoning?? What confusion and helplessness will arise.

Online shopping brings great changes in business, not only convenient, but also known as "green shopping". Today, China's E-commerce leader Alibaba Group, not only created a "knowledge hero" such as Ma Yun, but also brought great business opportunities, online shopping "sweep" has become a reality. It is reported that only the first half of 2009, mainly for individual users of "Taobao" registered users as much as 150 million, turnover has reached more than 80 billion yuan, than China's largest retailer turnover is still high. The key is that the online shopping model replaces the individual driving to the store to bring the carbon emissions, as well as save the construction of "big store" to achieve "to the material" to bring about the cost savings and emissions reduction, it is even more impressive. Industry experts estimate that the "go physical" alternative to "telecommuting, videoconferencing and online shopping" can achieve 500 million tonnes of emissions per year. ”

1971 American Tomlinson invented e-mail. In the September 1987, Professor Chantianbai "China's first e-mail", which wrote that-"over the Great Wall, to the world", opened the Chinese people to use the Internet prologue. Today, 400 million of the Chinese netizens, who do not have "e-mail", and who does not send "e-mail" it! "Hongyanchuanshu" can only be a beautiful and moving historical story.

E-Government changes the structure and operation mode of Chinese governments. The implementation of online information publishing, online office, especially the sharing of resources in various departments, will be an unprecedented revolution. To improve the administrative efficiency and decision-making level, improve service quality and expand service content, especially to increase the transparency of law enforcement and strengthen the supervision of the masses, the establishment of direct communication channels between the government and the masses, will appear "information" to promote "revolutionizing" the climax. To solve the common people as "terminally ill" the "three public" phenomenon will also be "Miaoshouhuichun" a good idea. This pushes, this is not a huge emission reduction measures!

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)