DECISION DETECTIVE CORPORATION — Department of Energy SBIR Phase II: 35a

Description

Power management is inefficient today for High Performance Computing equipment and for datacenter environmental conditioning systems supporting this equipment. Existing sensors and instrumentation monitoring the equipment are not integrated and do not adhere to an industry standard, and thus fall short in providing useful information that helps increase energy efficiency. Installing new sensors and hardware monitoring equipment is costly and time consuming. Decision Detective will implement a software solution that does not require any new sensors or hardware. Using advanced pattern recognition methods and a data fusion framework, Decision Detective will develop highly accurate power management optimization solutions that not only increase energy efficiency, but also increase the long-term reliability and operation life of datacenter assets from all major High Performance Computing manufacturers. In Phases I and II, we have created a software prototype that collects operating statistics swiftly and reliably from computing equipment in High Performance Computing data centers. Our software implements temperature-aware and energy-aware algorithms in real-time environments and provides energy-saving recommendations to Information Technology staff. In Phase IIB, we will enhance the commercialization potential for our software by adding features requested by a major computing manufacturer. COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS AND OTHER BENEFITSDecision Detectives Power Management Optimization Platform provides the means for Information Technology and Facilities Managers to reduce energy consumption and related costs year-after-year. This solution achieves the state-of-the-art scenario for future datacenters as outlined by the DOEs Federal Energy Management Program. Our software supports the DOEs Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Divisions objectives for power optimization in datacenters, Executive Order 13423, and the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (including Office of Management and Budget Memorandum M-13-09).