The energy consumption of data centres offering all kinds of services such as cloud services, high performance computing, and traditional storage and data management in global organizations is increasing exponentially. For the sustainable development of ICT technology, new solutions for energy-efficient computing are needed in various technology fields. Especially the data centres play a big role in targeting energy-efficient and low-carbon economic development.

The E2DC aims to increase the international awareness of energy-aware data centre technologies and to allow the exchange of ideas and interaction among the different researchers in the topic. The scope of the workshop reaches from research on green data centre technologies varying from the information and communication technologies to business models and Green SLA solutions. The workshop also addresses researchers from infrastructure research to share their ideas and solutions for green data centres.

The workshop invites original papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics include, but are not limited to:

Energy-aware communication and network solutions for data centres
Energy-aware cloud and high performance computing solutions
Energy-aware data storages and reservoirs
Scalability of federated data centres
Large scale simulations
Energy-aware data centre infrastructures and architectures
Novel business models of green ICT and data centres
Energy optimization algorithms and models
Green SLAs
Green computation and services
Standardization

Submission and publication of the work

The workshop is arranged on May 8th, 2012 in conjunction with e-Energy 2012 conference. Manuscripts are not submitted directly to the workshop, but to the e-Energy 2012 conference, making explicit in the first page that the paper should be considered for the workshop. The format and submission procedure can be found at http://e-energy-2012.networks.imdea.org. From the accepted papers it is expected that two papers are selected for presentation also in e-Energy 2012 conference and will be included in the ACM digital library. The negotiations for publishing the accepted workshop papers as a book chapter and/or in digital libraries are ongoing and the information of publication forums for all the accepted workshop papers will be announced later.

Important Dates

Paper submission (full papers):

January 10, 2012

Notification of acceptance:

March 25, 2012

Submission of camera ready papers:

April 13, 2012

Workshop Chairs

Jyrki Huusko, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland
Hermann de Meer, University of Passau, Germany

Publication Chairs

Sonja Klingert, University of Mannheim, Germany
Andrey Somov, CREATE-NET, Italy

Technical Program Committee

Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim, Germany
Robert Basmadjian, University of Passau, Germany
Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
George Da Costa, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College London, UK
Giovanni Giuliani, HP Italy Innovation Centre, Italy
Xavier Hesselbach-Serra, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Jussi Kangasharju, University of Helsinki, Finland
Bastian Koller, High Performance Computing Centre Stuttgart, Germany
Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Tuan Anh Trinh, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Athanasios V. Vasilakos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Gregor von Lazewski, Indiana University, USA