CISTER Researchers win Best Paper Award

The paper entitled “Building a Microscope for the Data Center”, by CISTER/INESC-TEC researchers Nuno Pereira, Stefano Tennina and Eduardo Tovar received the Best Paper Award at the 7th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems and Applications (paper acceptance ratio of 28.6%).

This is a remarkable accomplishment by the team working in the SENODs project (Sustainable ENergy-Optimized Datacenters), where CISTER is working on integrated solutions to address both the cyber and physical challenges posed by the energy consumption, cooling, and operational needs of large-scale datacenters. These technologies enable energy savings of around 15-20%.

The SENODs project consortium is lead in Portugal by CISTER-ISEP and in the USA by the Carnegie-Mellon University, and the other academic partner is FEUP in Portugal. The project is industrially driven by major Portuguese corporation Portugal Telecom (PT), which is undergoing a major overhaul of its datacenter facilities with the construction of a very large and state-of-the-art datacenter in Covilhã, to begin operation late 2012/early 2013. SENODs technologies are expected to reduce the energy bill in roughly 1 MEuros/year.