NSERC Industrial Research Chair for Colleges in Open Source Technology for Emerging Platforms (OSTEP)

随着新技术推动对计算能力的需求，当前数据中心技术的能源消耗、空间和冷却要求是主要挑战。安大略省的电力基础设施几乎被征税到极限，而房地产成本仍然很高；大型数据中心的冷却系统和应急发电机系统对环境造成了不可接受的影响。在给定的特定于业务的软件程序的基础上有许多行业标准软件层，它们通过将业务逻辑与硬件隔离并提供标准服务（这些层共同构成了软件堆栈）来创建基础。有一些新兴平台利用创新技术比现有平台更有效地运作。然而，这些新兴平台的成功取决于以最小的再开发工作部署现有软件解决方案的能力。所进行的应用研究将集中在这个基础软件堆栈上，使用开源软件作为构建块来实现这一目标。开源

As new technologies drive the demand for computing power, the energy consumption, space, and cooling requirements of current data centre technologies are major challenges. Ontario's electrical energy infrastructure is nearly taxed to its limits while real estate costs remain high; and massive data centre cooling and emergency-generator systems present inacceptable environmental impact. Underlying a given business-specific software program are many layers of industry-standard software which create a foundation by isolating the business logic from the hardware and providing standard services (collectively, these layers form a software stack). There are emerging platforms which utilize innovative technologies to operate much more efficiently than the current platforms. However, the success of these emerging platforms depends on the ability to deploy existing software solutions with minimal redevelopment effort. The applied research undertaken will focus on this foundational software stack, using open source software as building blocks to make this possible. Open source