HP Labs start three harmless projects

For working out of business models and technologies which will promote reduction of influence on environment, HP Labs start the project first in branch on reduction of emissions of carbon by data-processing centres (TSOD) on 75 %, unprecedented research on replacement of copper posting in servers laser beams, working out of toolkit for measurement and the control of quantity of the energy expended on production of this or that production.

Working out of technologies of maintenance of the stable environment is one of five basic directins of researches HP Labs after Laboratories reoriented the activity on the decision most acute problems which will rise before technological customers of the company the next ten years.

«Long-term obligations in the field of the environment protection, taken on themselves NR, are unique in technological branch. Today NR Labs once again confirms a company item, beginning the major research projects which will allow to continue our work in the field of optimum use of resources, – it is assured Prit Banerzhi (Prith Banerjee), the senior vice-president on workings out and director HP Labs of the world. – HP Labs will demonstrate in the lead technologies in the IT Industry which will allow to reduce considerably consumption of energy and carbon dioxide allocation in all branches».

Optimum for environment TSODyi

Laboratories HP have presented project Sustainable Data Center (Harmless TSOD) which to allow to reduce a total cost date-centre at the expense of reduction of emissions of carbon to 75 %. For example, average TSOD in a year consumes to five megawatt of the electric power; the same quantity of energy would suffice on maintenance with an electricity over 4300 houses in the USA within the whole year. Started NR the research project will allow the companies to reduce considerably quantity of the electric power consumed TSODami.

Under the guidance of CHandrakanta Patelya (Chandrakant Patel), the scientific employee and director Sustainable IT Ecosystem Lab (Laboratories on creation of the harmless IT Environment), scientists will investigate, how energy at all stages of life cycle TSODa, since production, construction, use and finishing salvaging of all its components is used and supervised. The structure of a command of researchers will include scientists in the field of the theory of computers and systems and materials technology; physicists, mechanical engineers and electrical engineers. The command will use the received information for working out of technologies for TSOD which will allow to reduce considerably consumption of resources at preservation of a necessary performance level, reliability and non-failure operation time.

Under forecasts NR, this research will promote opening of new seller’s markets at the expense of expansion of a scope of technologies of the company in such spheres as intellectual buildings, Grid-systems and polygraphy.

Replacement of copper with light for increase of productivity of energy

The second direction of researches is possibility of replacement of electric connections on a copper basis (the copper electric posting used in modern IT Systems), optical laser communication lines.

At the heart of the project of Photon switching (Photonic Interconnect), the management which carries out Stanley Williams (R. Stanley Williams), the senior scientific employee and the director of Laboratory of information and quantum systems of division of Laboratories NR, lay years of researches in the field of creation of fotonno-optical communications and components.

Photon switching allows to supply interaction of tens and even hundreds the processors possessed in server microcircuits. Besides, the optical kind of communication in 20 times is more effective than analogues existing for today and will allow the companies to save annually gigavattyi the electric power, thereby considerably reducing IT Costs. The technology of photon switching supplies communication on distance from 100 metres to 100 nanometrov and allow to create flexible configurations of systems which can be easily changed depending on the delivered business problems.

The new approach to modelling and measurement of use of energy and material resources

CHandrakant Patel will head one more project of Laboratories NR. Creation of toolkit which will allow to model, predict, measure and supervise influence of production, deliveries and business processes on environment becomes its purpose.

NR will develop program and service means for measurement and the control of key parametres of effect on environment, such as carbon emission, overhead charge of energy and consumption of not reimbursable energy. Tools NR will help consumers to modernise the business and to make its less harmful to environment and economically more favourable at the expense of innovative use IT. For realisation of the given project:

Researchers NR Labs will carry out researches of the consumer press and the polygraphic industry for the purpose of comparison of influence on environment of existing business models with what will involve new technologies of laboratories NR. Research will allow to measure and demonstrate possibilities of new technologies and scientific workings out in the field of increase in an overall performance, reduction of consumption of resources and energy, and also carbon emissions. NR plans to capture in the given research also the customers in various vertical branches.

Researchers of Laboratories NR have developed a unique method of calculation of expenses and effect on product environment, proceeding from quantity of the free energy known as eksergiya. This quantity will be involved throughout all life cycle of the product including extraction, production, deliveries, use and salvaging. HP Labs and the Californian university in Berkeley have developed program Lifetime Exergy Advisor which allows to calculate effect of a product on environment in joules, units of free energy. Lifetime Exergy Advisor will allow the organisations to define ecological efficiency of application of alternative materials and processes at each stage of life cycle of a product. Experts NR are convinced, that in process of growth of deficiency of world power resources of the company will as consider quantity of the energy spent for production of this or that product as now consider money. Thus, joules will have the same value, as dollars.

To unite knowledge of leading world experts in the field of optimum use of resources, researchers HP Labs plan to create an open Internet resource «sustainability hub» for the tax and distribution of the information about optimum for environment methods of production. Experts of area, researchers, scientific, engineers and teachers of universities from all world can participate in creation of the given resource which becomes storehouse of the research information devoted to working out of toolkit and methodology of decrease of influence on environment. It is planned, that «sustainability hub» becomes accessible to the public in 2009. HP Labs is going to use the received information for realisation of the further researches definition of quantity of free energy at creation of new products and chains of deliveries in global ekosisteme becomes which purpose.