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The goal of the Privacy Preserving Energy Analytics for Data Centers<\/strong> FRP<\/strong><\/a> is to demonstrate, for the first time, that large-scale computer systems will achieve cost reduction and energy efficiency improvements via a novel privacy-preserving, collaborative, and scalable analytics and optimization framework. The researchers aim to achieve this goal through a specific high-impact application of our privacy-preserving analytics framework: collaborative data center demand response<\/em>, where data centers interact and jointly optimize for achieving better electricity cost tradeoffs and energy efficiency in the grid. This research is only possible with a convergent research team and approach, spanning expertise and solutions across energy (power systems and grid), computing design automation, optimization, privacy, computer systems, and hardware. This FRP is cosponsored by Hariri Institute for Computing and the Center for Reliable Information Systems & Cyber Security (RISCS).<\/p>\n This thrust aims to design a collaborative analytics framework for optimizing a federation of data centers to satisfy both individual and joint optimization goals. The framework will predict the power needs that satisfy Service Level Agreements (SLAs), design runtime management policies that are able to meet SLA constraints, and determine which information exchange is necessary among data centers in a federation to jointly participate in demand response programs available in the power grid.<\/p>\n \n\t Ayse K. Coskun, PhD<\/p>\n\t\t Professor Engineering (ECE, SE); <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n \n\t Michael Caramanis<\/p>\n\t\t Professor, Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering<\/p>\t<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n Emiliano Dall\u2019Anese<\/p>\n\t\t Associate Professor (ECE, SE)<\/p>\t<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n Alex Olshevsky<\/p>\n\t\t Professor (ECE, SE, CS)<\/p>\t<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n Ioannis (Yannis) Paschalidis, PhD<\/p>\n\t\t Director, Hariri Institute; Benjamin Sovacool<\/p>\n\t\t Director, IGS <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n Data privacy considerations, both individual and institutional, hinder collaborations among different data centers (or different users on the grid) or make them vastly more expensive. The aim of this thrust is to design privacy-preserving algorithms that enable sharing power consumption and performance data among data centers for solving joint optimization problems and negotiating joint deals in the power market. The thrust will include:<\/p>\n \n\t Ayse K. Coskun, PhD<\/p>\n\t\t Professor Engineering (ECE, SE); Adam Smith, PhD<\/p>\n\t\t Professor, Computer Science, Engineering<\/p>\t<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n \n\t Mark Bun<\/p>\n\t\t Assistant Professor, Computer Science, CAS<\/p>\t<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n Sofya Raskhodnikova<\/p>\n\t\t Professor, Computer Science<\/p>\t<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n Mayank Varia, PhD<\/p>\n\t\t Co-Director, Center for Reliable Information Systems & Cyber Security (RISCS) <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n A federation of data centers will jointly solve an optimization problem, which would provide better data center and grid sustainability solutions. To solve these optimization problems, this thrust will explore a variety of approaches including machine learning, simulated annealing, and others, together with privacy-preserving methods such as homomorphic encryption, zero-knowledge proofs, and any new methods designed in thrust 2. This thrust\u2019s goal is to explore hardware design options (i.e., use of accelerators of various kinds, new memory or integration methods, and others) to enable sufficiently fast computation of the privacy-preserving analytics methods.<\/p>\n \n\t Ayse K. Coskun, PhD<\/p>\n\t\t Professor Engineering (ECE, SE); Ajay Joshi, PhD<\/p>\n\t\t Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)<\/p>\t<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n <\/p>\n \n\t Vasiliki Kalavri<\/p>\n\t\t Assistant Professor, Computer Science, CAS<\/p>\t<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n Renato Mancuso<\/p>\n\t\t Associate Professor, Computer Science, CAS<\/p>\t<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n Rabia Tugce Yazicigil, PhD<\/p>\n\t\t Associate Professor, ENG (ECE, BME)<\/p>\t<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n How to get involved?<\/strong><\/p>\n For program specific inquiries and questions, please contact FRP leaders: <\/span>Ayse Coskun<\/strong><\/a>, Adam Smith<\/strong><\/a>, or Ajay Joshi.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Faculty interested in submitting a Focused Research Programs proposal are strongly encouraged to discuss their ideas with Yannis Paschalidis<\/a>, director of\u00a0the Hariri Institute for Computing.<\/span><\/p>\nResearch Program Leaders:<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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Research Thrusts<\/strong><\/h4>\n
1. Predictive analytics for data center energy trends<\/strong><\/h5>\n
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Join us May 19 in Room 1101 for the “Data Centers and Power Grid Interactions: Challenges and Opportunities.” Learn more and register now.<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n