JISC Green ICT

I was reviewing some of our events for some briefing papers and the like that I am hoping to get moving on shortly, and was looking again at the “Storified” write-ups of the events we held over the last 18th […]

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As part of its Greening ICT Programme, JISC is pleased to invite interested parties to a series of briefings about the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres.
The […]

Two bits of good news this week about recognition and/or further take up of the work of the Greening ICT Programme.
First up on Monday morning was news from the team at De Montfort (Richard Bull, et al) who ran […]

Good to see the work developing on the Power Down and Wake System project that JISC is funding under it’s Greening ICT Programme.
PAWS is designed to be an open source alternative to the various commercial […]

We had a really useful and enjoyable workshop at Oxford last week on the subject of dashboards displaying energy use and their effect (or not) on user behaviour. The reason for holding this workshop was to start […]

There was a good turn out for the multiple JISC funded project workshop on Metering and Managing Energy Consumption in Data Centres held on the 12th July in Leeds. Delegates from a good number of universities […]

As I am unable to embed other content in this blog I have added the presentations from the recent “Metering and Managing Energy Consumption in Data Centres” workshop we held up in Leeds. See:
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Just finished a meeting with the project team from the Kit-Catalogue project at Loughborough University.
This project is taking an existing resource – a catalogue of equipment mostly of interest to engineering […]

Last week I visited the CUSTOMER project at Coventry University. CUSTOMER stands for Coventry University STudents’ Optimisation and Management of Energy Resources and is one of the projects funded under the JISC […]

The Team from Coventry University
Just back from London after a really successful workshop on dashboards, displays, reports and other measures to change user behaviour. This was held at the London campus of […]

The write up from this even tis now available at:
http://storify.com/eventamplifier/intelligent-buildings-and-smart-estates
Thanks to the excellent work of our Event Amplifier, Kirsty Pitkin. I like […]

The JISC funded Responsibility for Energy Costs (Forum for The Future) , Measuring Data Centre Energy Efficiency Project (Leeds Met) and Greening Scientific Computing (HEEPI < University of Bradford) projects held a very successful day workshop in Leeds on the 12th of July.

Here are the presentations from the day with a concurrent soundtrack of…[Read more]

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Interesting debate today at the Data Centre Efficiency event that the SusteTECH project has put on in Bristol. John Milner from the JISC laid out the case for the JISC run, HEFCE inspired Universities Modernisation Fund in providing a brokerage service that will deliver cost efficient cloud resources for the sector. The debate is around whether…[Read more]

I’m just back from the second Greening ICT Programme meeting where we welcomed a new gang of eager innovators to the Green ICT Community and JISC. This is always one of the best bits of my job when I get to meet the people I am going to be working with for the next year or [...]

Green ICT Call JISC has now released the call for proposals for Phase II of the Greening ICT Programme. The call, which was issued on the 29th September extends and builds on the current projects funded under the Phase I call, and also extends the work into new areas. There are three strands to this Phase II call. [...]

It may just be that this is the Green ICT Programme but I have been struck today that two different groups of people who want to talk to me about Green ICT have both offered the option of either a face-to-face or meeting by some sort of remote collaboration tool. One of the requests is for [...]