IUCRC Phase III Binghamton University: Center for Energy-Smart Electronic Systems (ES2)

随着自动化和电子设备在大多数主要行业的普及，产生的数据量和处理/管理这些数据的需求持续增长。数据中心的自动化管理、解决其新出现的热挑战以及提高其能效是满足这一需求的关键。智能能源电子系统中心(ES2)是美国国家科学基金会工业大学合作研究中心(IUCRC)，成立于2011年，旨在满足这些对数据中心的需求。这一奖项为这一由宾厄姆顿大学、维拉诺瓦大学和德克萨斯大学阿灵顿分校组成的3个地点的IUCRC提供了第三阶段的续签。ES2的S愿景是开发系统化的方法来运营电子系统，包括数据中心，作为可预测和实时验证的动态、自我感知和调节系统。第一阶段和第二阶段的重点一直是开发新的能源优化和热管理模型和设计，以及使电子数据系统能够更有效和更安全地运行的工具和算法。第三阶段将进一步扩大这些方法，以更接近全面实现ES2远景。该中心将计算机科学家、电气工程师和机械工程师聚集在一个协同的多学科团队中，以推动这一领域的工业相关研究。ES2在促进大幅减少电子系统的能源消耗方面，将有助于最终实现净零碳排放的国家议程。降低数据中心的能源成本将有助于提高计算服务的可部署性和可获得性，以满足更大人口群体的需求。ES2继续吸引不同群体的本科生和研究生，并在毕业后的职业生涯中提供与行业相关的培训。ES2还整合了合作伙伴、大学和行业成员的各种机制，以增加妇女和代表性不足的学生的参与。在作为中心牵头站点的宾厄姆顿站点，ES2的S研究活动侧重于智能工作负载预测，以动态分配IT、冷却和能源资源，从而实现不同规模数据中心的整体能源管理方法。这种对IT、冷却和能源来源的全面管理是实现未来可持续、可靠和可用的数据中心的关键。关于可持续性的活动还包括将可再生能源纳入数据中心。在宾厄姆顿，冷却系统的研究通过专注于单阶段和两阶段冷却技术以及冷却系统控制的基于模型的开发，满足了高性能计算和智能按需细分市场的数据中心典型的高功率占地面积服务器和机架的新兴冷却需求。先进的空气冷却系统，包括直接和间接蒸发冷却，也被研究。ES2继续与其广泛的行业合作伙伴密切合作，包括数据中心密集型企业、数据中心托管和服务提供商、数据中心设计和基础设施提供商以及数据中心设备供应商。宾厄姆顿大学的研究人员在热分析和热传输领域，以及电力感知系统和高性能计算领域为该中心做出了贡献。宾厄姆顿的基础设施包括一个专用的数据中心研究实验室。该数据中心实验室具有中端数据中心的规模，但与生产数据中心不同，它允许进行颠覆性实验。除了两个完全封闭的冷通道外，该实验室还配备了各种类型的冷却设施(传统的冷风冷却、使用冷水和温水冷却的后门热交换器)，以支持涉及传统数据中心和最先进数据中心中看到的不同冷却技术的实验。通过以新技术和新兴技术为中心的调查，解决了冷却、IT和电力输送组件中固有的低效率和可持续性需求。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

With the proliferation of automation and electronic devices throughout most major industries, the amount of data being produced and the need to process/manage that data continues to grow. Automated management of data centers, addressing their emerging thermal challenges and improving their energy efficiency form the key to addressing this demand. The Center for Energy-Smart Electronic Systems (ES2), an NSF Industry University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC), was established in 2011 to address these needs for data centers. This award provides a Phase III renewal for this 3-site IUCRC, which consists of Binghamton University, Villanova University and University of Texas at Arlington. ES2's vision is to develop systematic methodologies for operating electronic systems, including data centers, as dynamic, self- sensing and regulating systems that are predictable and verified in real time. The focus in Phase I and Phase II has been to develop new energy-optimization and thermal management models and designs, as well as tools and algorithms enabling electronic data systems to operate more efficiently and securely. Phase III will further expand on these methodologies to progress closer to a full realization of the ES2 vision. The Center brings together computer scientists, electrical engineers, and mechanical engineers in a synergistic multidisciplinary team to advance industrially relevant research in this area. ES2, in promoting significant reductions in energy consumption in electronic systems, will contribute to the national agenda of eventually reaching net-zero carbon emissions. Reducing energy costs in data centers will help to allow computing services to be more deployable and accessible for a larger population segment. ES2 continues to attract a diverse group of students at the undergraduate and graduate levels and provides industrially relevant training in their careers beyond graduation. ES2 has also integrated a variety of mechanisms across the partners universities and industry members to increase participation by women and underrepresented students. At the Binghamton site, which serves as the lead site for the Center, ES2’s research activities focus on smart workload prediction to allocate IT, cooling and energy resources dynamically and thus realize holistic energy-management methodologies for data centers at different scales. This holistic management of IT, cooling and energy sourcing is key to realizing sustainable, reliable, and available data centers of the future. The activities on sustainability also include the incorporation of renewable energy sources into data centers. At Binghamton, the research on cooling systems addresses the emerging cooling needs of high-power footprint servers and racks typical of data centers that cater to the HPC and intelligence-on-demand segments by focusing on single and two- phase cooling technologies and model-based development of cooling system control. Advanced air-cooling systems, including direct and indirect evaporative cooling, are also investigated. ES2 continues to work closely with its broad industry base of partners, including data center intensive businesses, data center hosting and service providers, data center design and infrastructure providers and data center equipment suppliers. Researchers at Binghamton University contribute to the center in the areas of thermal analysis and heat transfer, as well as power-aware systems and high-performance computing. Binghamton’s infrastructure includes a dedicated data center research laboratory. This data center laboratory has the scale of a mid-range data center but unlike a production data center, it permits disruptive experiments to be carried out. In addition to two fully contained cold aisles, the laboratory houses various types of cooling facilities (traditional chilled air cooling, rear door heat exchangers using chilled water and warm water cooling) to support experiments involving different cooling technologies that are seen in legacy as well as state-of-the-art data centers. Inherent inefficiencies and sustainability needs within the cooling, IT and power delivery components are addressed through investigations centered on new and emerging technologies.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.