SENODs technology is Now Deployed at Portugal Telecom (PT) Datacenter in Picoas, Lisbon

The SENODs team successfully carried out a proof-of-concept deployment at PT-Picoas. This deployment is a a long-lived demonstration of the technology developed within the SENODs project and will enable the analysis of datacenter power and environmental variables to an unprecedented granularity. The results from this deployment will mean that Portugal Telecom (PT) will know in much greater detail exactly what the data centre is using, why it is using this and what is the cause of this. Using this data PT will be able to configure the data centre for it to run as efficiently as possible. This proof-of-concept is also the kickoff of other deployments within datacenters owned by PT.

In the SENODs project (Sustainable ENergy-Optimized Datacenters), CISTER/INESC-TEC researchers are working towards constructing integrated solutions to address both the cyber and physical challenges posed by the energy consumption, cooling, and operational needs of large-scale datacenters. The SENODs project consortium is lead in Portugal by CISTER/INESC-TEC and in the USA by Carnegie-Mellon University the other academic partner in Portugal is FEUP. The project is industrially driven by the major Portuguese corporation Portugal Telecom (PT), which is undergoing a major overhaul of its datacenter facilities with the construction of a new, very large, and state-of-the-art datacenter in Covilhã.