Greening Future Digital Infrastructure by Design – Predict 2025

Hello everybody. Welcome to my presentation. Uh, I will talk about a greening digital infrastructure, the sustainable architecture Design principles.

This is what we developed in our current project. It's called Green Digit, and this product is oriented on primarily to focus on the, uh, greening, uh, research infrastructure for European, uh, research. And, uh, as project already has a 10 months of development, we came to the, uh, moment that we have some something to propose to wider the community.

And this is more, uh, much more, uh, beyond only research infrastructure, research community. So this, I am happy to present this to wider community, to professional community, and he propose some, uh, solutions and approaches that they call shared responsibility model for sustainability. And also our steps to define the so-called sustainability by design.

And sustainability by design is, uh, very well, uh, everywhere used. But we currently approach to the moment that we really can propose sustainability by design. And this project is based on the experience of, um, many partners participating in this, uh, project and from different countries.

So we also follow standardization and environmental sustainability and transform them to technical requirements and policy decision. So we go to the, uh, what is green digit project and what are objectives. Even digit projects will run from this year, 24 to 27, uh, alone, three years, and has a wide, wide, uh, range of objectives.

First is, uh, project is innovative, so nobody run this kind of spectrum of problems that we, uh, try to solve in a project. And we start from assessing the status and trends in, uh, achieving low environmental impact in, uh, digital infrastructures. And also, this is quite related to the digital infrastructures that are used, uh, in, uh, community and, uh, different, uh, uh, uh, uh, also applications and outcome of this recommendation, uh, uh, uh, landscape analysis is recommendation and roadmap for research infrastructures that can be implemented.

Also, we, uh, to do this kind of implementation and recommendation, we develop reference architecture and design principle for research infrastructure. And the more interesting what is not typically in current research present, that we address the whole research infrastructure lifecycle as any digital infrastructure that, uh, operates. That started from the design, from, uh, deployment and from operation and possibly at the end for the commissioning.

And, uh, we also develop, uh, quite innovative technologies that they allow, will allow every, uh, stakeholder in all this environment of providing infrastructure, providing services, and doing research. And vPro will provide technologies, methods and tools for, uh, making digital services a operating in more green, uh, uh, way. Also a developing tools for researchers and for users in other different digital infrastructure to, uh, achieve controllable and a green and environmental aware, energy aware, uh, a development and execution of their, uh, a, a research, uh, workflow.

And not less important is, uh, education, uh, and training for different, uh, group of users, operators, researchers, and so on, including, uh, uh, addressing this during the whole research infrastructure or digital infrastructure lifecycle. Uh, and a, there are three sustainability extracts that addressed in this project. And this is also, also i, I, I imported to men to mention for everybody who will work on sustainability of, uh, future digital infrastructures.

First is a energy efficiency of digital infrastructure. It includes, uh, a software applications and execution of this software and optimizing execution and aspects that we need to address is actually should be implemented in architecture and design. Recom, uh, recommendations ization of digital infrastructure.

This mostly related to operation, operation monitoring and key performance indicators. We will, uh, uh, try to, uh, connect key, key performance indicators, monitoring and energy efficiency. And, uh, I will show this in the next slides.

And another aspect is more wide reducing environmental pact of digital infrastructures. And this is related, as I mentioned on previous slide. This also related to the lifecycle management and any aspects that related to lifecycle.

That includes lifecycle st it includes the idea ideation, uh, design, deployment, and policy policy that is, uh, should be, uh, applied and and compliant by, uh, operators and users of res research infrastructure. And as this is mentioned in the title, uh, a approach in this kind of spectrum of the project of the problem wide spectrum is related to the definition of architecture. Why architecture definition is important, because architecture is a way to coordinate, synchronize, and unite different stakeholders in different activities during the all, uh, stages of, uh, research or digital infrastructure operation.

Each include developers of infrastructure and services include operators, users that use the services policy decision makers, and also, uh, ensure reference to the industry standards on architecture principle for, uh, digital systems, infrastructure, engineering, and software engineering. And also architecture is also allows us link all technical solutions, uh, and operational, uh, process this standards because standards are actually developed, uh, based on architecture that is accepted by industry. And, uh, not less important standards.

Defines and regulations define the auditing and certification for research infrastructures. And, uh, certification in certification and auditing is, uh, important for all, uh, public commercial infrastructures. But this is also approaching the research infrastructure, this new developments in, uh, uh, European commission and research area of European research area.

So, uh, what are, what is the, uh, green digit project architecture definition methodology? This slides actually contains something what is not related to only research infrastructure. It can be actually applied to any digital infrastructure.

And this is important for why the community, then what you develop for research community. So, uh, general approach to architecture development architecture need to include, uh, aspects horizontal, vertical, and lifecycle. What does mean?

Horizontal. Horizontal means that layer at architecture that allows to define, uh, different, uh, functions at the specific functional layer and, uh, achieve compatibility and the operation of the distributed, uh, services at the same level. Vertical.

Vertical means that any, uh, final, uh, application or, uh, research process that is designed by, uh, or applied to used in infrastructure need to include all layers, including from operators to the researchers and users. And lifecycle lifecycle includes very specific aspects of architecture design on infrastructure design that, as I mentioned, it includes also a design process, a, a development deployment operation and modification or including something. What happens in operational process is a supply chain and upgrade and, uh, evolution of infrastructure.

And surely at the end, it should be, uh, decommissioning. So it means that it's infrastructure should be stopped and all aspects, all equipment and, uh, uh, and buildings need to be either decommissioned or, uh, the A or a repre rep, rep profiled. And, uh, what we also as, uh, many, uh, of you may understand that research process sometimes include different aspects from collecting data, collecting data from sensors, uh, connecting them with, uh, the network radio access network, also using edge cloud computing workflow management.

And finally, uh, coming to research it to make decision or write paper what major suggestion manage major proposals that we use in this project and want to propose to your, uh, to, uh, discussion in this, uh, event. And my presentation is a shared responsibility, uh, model for sustainability. This defines the responsibility of a group of stakeholders that related to users of infrastructure and to the operators and provides of infrastructure and how to move from shared responsibility model to the sustainability by design.

A couple of new concept is in the process of development in our project, and, uh, in the near future, we expect to really propose principle sustainability of design, uh, mentioned to the, uh, sustainability based design. We also, uh, use, uh, so-called sustainable or durable architecture design principles. This development, uh, took place even before starting the project into 2024, but we develop a range of different models and aspects that need to be used to develop architecture and infrastructure that, uh, has a long life cycle without any redesign and wasting the, uh, technical solutions, uh, and, uh, software solutions.

And this slides pro present you the, what we call shared transportability model in sustainability that defines the, uh, eh, responsibility of the infrastructure. This is providers and the e operators and responsibility on infrastructure. This is users that use this infrastructure, and this is more complex.

Diagram shows what components of this, uh, user controlled infrastructure, uh, user controlled services and operator controlled services. Uh, you see this is green for, for infrastructure in blue for users. And this diagram also shows which kind of, uh, services or functional components need to be addressed in design and who is responsible or who is involved in making decision on infrastructure component design.

And a, uh, blue, uh, green part of this diagram includes actually data center, but it has used for computational resources and actually overlay infrastructure that create, uh, environment, virtual environment for, uh, a, a different communities researchers and research project to operate their research. And, uh, if you look at this diagram, this diagram is, uh, complex. Sometimes it's need to be, uh, slightly, uh, a simplified, but it's need to be, go to the, uh, design principles design principle and how it is achieved.

Uh, first of all, the, one of the most important part to en ensure that, uh, share responsibility model is that, uh, there should be defined communication and interaction between green part of provider operator and, uh, blue part of the researchers and users. Uh, for this we use a standard KPI. We need to define quite a, a, a complicated or a consistent model for addressing all this.

I would say for, uh, components of, uh, of the design principle. First is architecture. For that sustainability by design, uh, software and duplication components development that need to make the all, uh, software duplications green aware, using standard existing, uh, API and databases and benchmark and so on, uh, is need to, uh, should not be denied.

This area is well developed in some components, but our task is to make this coordinated a integrated and using all components. A last item is research infrastructure, duplication lifecycle. This is, I mentioned a few times.

So, uh, during design and operation and the a monitoring, it should be implemented different components, but not less important, and sometimes a very missing point in a, a general system and infrastructure and software engineering is existence in definition of the common information and data model for all data that are exchanged. For example, if we move to the this slide, uh, between all this component in this diagram, uh, this is not, uh, entirely new approach because standards that defined environmental sustainability and KPI and, uh, other aspects, they also use, uh, require definition of the information model. This aspect is very important for us, and we also stress that then designing complex infrastructure like was presented at this slide.

We need to define information model for all data and for all diagrams. And now we go to the another, uh, aspect, which was mentioned in the previous slides is a, a compliance with the standards. And, uh, we made the extensive analysis of all standards that defined, uh, require the environment, sustainability, energy efficiency monitoring, and so on, is the standards, uh, from the group of ISO European standards.

And the most practical, uh, document that is used for in European community is a so-called EU code of conduct on data center energy efficiency. Uh, this standard defines everything. What is, uh, can be treated as a components of the shared responsibility model.

First of all, it defines the participants, all group of participants and stakeholders, from operators to co-location providers, to the managed services providers and so on. And area of responsibility defined from physical building, mechanical water, uh, and the metrics, IT equipment, uh, software and business practices. Uh, where is the reference at the, uh, bottom of the slide For somebody who is interested, you can look at this or use the name of the a EU EC delegated regulation, uh, that defines necessary reporting from European data centers.

Not only research. And, uh, if you refer to the share assurance possibility model, uh, this a diagram mostly related to the operators and a a and providers. And what if we talk about users research, project research infrastructures, their concern of their, uh, actually attention to be, should be, uh, brought to the, this subset of functionalities and how it is achieved.

It's achieved that they need to provide information in the well understand profiles according to information model to make decision and optimize their workflow. So I will continue further. Uh, this diagram is more the next step to make the everything a design and operational.

And this provides mapping between KPI key performance indicators, which is, uh, defined in the standards and audit, uh, documents and metrics. So how to link metrics that can be collected from the operational data centers infrastructure with the KPI, uh, which we need to, uh, uh, satisfy according to requirements and all this related to this components of the research infrastructure. And, uh, here the bottom, uh, rectangular shows that who is in, who is responsible and who collect this information and process information.

Okay, so this is almost at the end because this quite technical part and, uh, uh, I just want to say this, this also, this work is not based just only in the, a house called proposal from the project, but it's based on the previous experience of, uh, project partners in particular European grid infrastructure, EGI, uh, federation that has also developed initial set of, uh, uh, uh, of requirements and KPI and metrics that need to be collected to, uh, a provide national, national monitoring and sustainability assessment. And, uh, almost final slide is that how we look at the sustainability by design components. This is the four areas that we need to address, and we look at that, uh, technically for infrastructure that includes compute, storage and networking and virtualization process.

And also on the top of the general research definition, we do the research infrastructure, uh, a, uh, virtualization, uh, and services definition. And oh, on the top of infrastructure data center, we see we, we have the scientific workflow of an application, research tools and portal. And finally, researcher who has own terminal and do this, uh, a make the, a environmental aware and a, a design and operation data management, not less important.

And all tools that we develop is, uh, uh, support all this kind of functionality for researchers to work this infrastructure. And this slide provide a quite detailed what is, uh, it means sustainability by design, which components need to be included. And, uh, this summarizes previous slides.

The only, what I want to mention on the slides that, uh, we need to come to the conclusion and possibly invite, uh, community, technical community to define concept of green aware API. There are a lot of standards related to the, uh, okay, practice is an example of the open, uh, open API swag, API, and, uh, a recent development. They are based on the well defined e information model.

And we will work on their way to propose the green array, API, this adding specific information and a parameters that can be included for AP to standard API or in general API to make its energy efficient and used in the software for, uh, making its, uh, controllable for energy, uh, uh, consumption and environmental impact in real applications. And the, if you go to the final slides, uh, the something what, uh, we propose and try to initiate why the, a community discussion is about energy efficiency on off research infrastructure. We need cooperation also, we expect that currently imaging generative AI and LLM uh, a use in science will require to us slightly to rethink about, uh, energy efficiency for, uh, future infra digital infrastructure.

And also work with either controllable, uh, a generative ai, uh, services or make solutions for, uh, them more energy efficiency. And we will work in other, uh, uh, services to make, uh, wider, uh, participation wider, uh, EE cooperation and come to the so-called co-development process in this project. Okay.

This is my final slide, so if there is time for questions, we can do this or we can also make a future discussion based on the conference, uh, block or whatever. Okay. Thank you.