Project context and scope

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Project context and scope

Cat McAlister

Intertek PLC

Ecodesign Technical Assistance Study on Standards for Enterprise Servers and Data Storage (Lot 9)

Final Stakeholder Meeting Monday, 25th April 2016

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Aims

European Commission study, led by Intertek, with the following aims:

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To provide technical assistance to support standardisation-related tasks for Lot 9 products (enterprise servers and data centre storage).

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To facilitate establishment of standards (or where necessary, transitional methods) for measuring:

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[to support implementing measures on Lot 9 products, should the Commission decide to proceed with policy measures].

 The energy efficiency of servers (especially rack but also blade)

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Scope of this study

Enterprise Servers as Task 7 preparatory study:

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Computer servers according to the definition of the ENERGY STAR® specification for computer servers (version 2.0),

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Modular and having different form factors,

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Marketed and sold through enterprise channels. Not specifically addressing:

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Those intended for private end-users (domestic) or embedded (machinery) applications

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Highly customised / mission-critical equipment - mainframes, high performance computer systems, resilient servers, server

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Scope of this study

Enterprise Storage

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Storage products according to the definition of the ENERGY STAR® specifications for data centre storage equipment (version 1.0)

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Marketed and sold through enterprise channels Not including:

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Private (domestic) and portable data storage products, computer servers, computers with storage capacities, and network

equipment.

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Methodology

An assessment of the need for standards via a gap analysis:

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Identification of parameters.

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Identification of existing initiatives, standards and gaps.

Exploration of potential approaches to server energy efficiency metrics.

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Standards gap analysis

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Intertek PLC

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TEER/ATIS 060015.2014

Standards currently available

EN62075 AV ICT Environmentally conscious design

EN62018 ICT power consumption measurement ATIS 060015. 01.2014 SPEC SERT SPECpower ssj2008 ENERGY STAR servers Others: EPRI ASHRAE TC9.9 ECMA 74 ISO 7779 Data Santisation PAS141 IEC TR 62635 NSF/ANSI 426 EN50600 ISO 30134 ISO 30134-4 / _{EN 50600-4-4}

CoC data centres

ITU L. 13xx ITU L.1300 ITU L.1310 Ser ver s

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Standards interactions

Country / Region Standardisation

Group Relevant initiatives Contact

Europe

CEN-CENELEC-ETSI coordination group on

Green Data Centres (CG GDC)

CLC/TC 215 JTC 1/SC 39 Mandate M/462 The

Green Grid

TeleconferenceAug 2015. Project team and European Commission attendance and presentation at 13th April coordination group

meeting in London United States US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ENERGY STAR

Teleconferences 1st September 2015 and 29th January 2016. Remote attendance and presentation at meeting on 19th November to discuss server developments and data analysis in

relation to SERT and active mode.

International SPEC SERT

Teleconferences 6th _{July and 20}th _January.

Attendance and presentation at European SPEC Symposium on 18th March 2016. Also included

the set up of a “Beta Testing” programme (opportunity for stakeholders to try out SERT for

free).

China CNIS Chinese server metric development

Meeting 14th September 2015 to discuss activities and potential for coordination

Korea Kemco Korean server metric

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Gap analysis draft deliverable

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Listing of standards draft deliverable

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Conclusions of standards analysis

Standardisation

area Observations Key standards activities and expected delivery Server idle /

active metric approach

SPEC and ENERGY STAR will continue working on this in 2016. EC input via EU-US ENERGY STAR

agreement.

Lot 9 White Paper - energy efficiency metrics based upon the SERT™ rating tool: June 2016

ENERGY STAR Servers v3.0: early 2017.

ISO 30314-4 / CENELEC EN 50600 KPIs: 2017

Storage idle / active metric

approach

Product complexity poses significant challenge to develop metrics.

SNIA Emerald / ENERGY STAR Storage v2.0:

post 2016

Material efficiency considerations

NSF/IEEE active on standards development, EU joint research

centre on research.

NSF 426/IEEE 1680.4 Standard for Servers is expected to be delivered in 2016.

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Server metrics

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Intertek PLC

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Testing and next steps

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Server Testing Activity

Collaborating with UK server / storage company Broadberry. Goal to address:

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Any key clarifications or refinements to current testing approaches.

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Variation with different product configurations: how to define testing approaches to ensure consistency in configurations and products

placed on the market.

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Testing Set-up

Temperatur e sensor System Under Test Power Analyser

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Preliminary Testing Progress

Learning curve:

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One successful SERT test run (11 hours, co-efficient of variation =

difference between the SUT and baseline server higher than expected).

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Several partly successful SERT tests (listed with errors).

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Several tests failed, or failed to initialise.

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Currently undertaking additional runs on same sample to test repeatability.

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Partial test on hard drive worklet shows consistency, first and second run.

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Full test and partial test - repeatability

Full test

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Next steps: finalise deliverables

Gap analysis

report

Standards listing

Metric white

paper

Testing report

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Next steps – important dates

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All stakeholder final feedback needed by 13th_{May 2016}

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End contract 6th_{June 2016. Final deliverables published prior, and} stakeholders informed.

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Investigation work will continue via the impact assessment

contract, which ends in December 2016.

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THANK YOU!

Catriona McAlister Consultant to Intertek [email protected] Anson Wu Consultant to Intertek [email protected]

Davy Avenue, Knowlhill, Milton Keynes Bucks, MK5 8NL T: +44 1908 857777. http://www.intertek.com