Background

The NYP-HP Green ICT Solutions Centre was established jointly by NYP and Hewlett-Packard in June 2008 to support industry’s needs for innovative Green ICT solutions and capability development. The centre will drive the development of new innovations in infocomm technologies that will enable businesses to achieve sustainable business growth by being energy-efficient and reducing carbon footprint. The centre will also provide a platform for training students and industry professionals in Green ICT technologies and best practices.

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Areas of Specialisation

The NYP-HP Green ICT Solutions Centre addresses a holistic range of “green” ICT capabilities, including the following key areas:

• Manpower training and development for a new breed of engineers with ‘Green’ ICT capabilities;
  
• Development of innovative enterprise solutions that protect the environment while meeting business objectives;
  
• Cutting-edge energy and thermal technologies and management for ICT systems;
• New ICT infrastructure design and innovation to maximize energy efficiency, resource utilization and business agility;
• Application porting, verification, adaptation, assurance and testing to/on Green ICT Reference Architecture

Ms. Tan Yen Yen (Vice President & Managing Director, HP Singapore) touring the NYP-HP Green ICT Solutions Centre

Students working on projects in the NYP-HP Green ICT Solutions Centre

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Project Information

Some examples of projects undertaken recently include the following:

An environmental monitoring system through wireless sensors network.

Thermal measurement in a data centre is critical for the determination of a good design for the cooling system of the equipment. The objective of this project is to develop an environmental monitoring system to record, display and eventually manage the distribution of temperatures and humidity within a data centre. The data captured will be useful in the design, modeling, simulation and assessment for an optimum layout of the ICT infrastructures and equipment racks within a green data centre in terms of more effective cooling and energy efficiency.
 

Development of Reference Performance Metrice for the Virtualized ICT Infrastructure

To address the challenges of managing IT services proficiently, maximizing energy efficiency and resource utilization, the ICT industry is increasingly consolidating application services onto the virtualized ICT infrastructure. By optimizing the energy efficiency with the virtualized infrastructure, IT capacity can be greatly increased while keeping the energy footprint low.  

The objective of this project is to develop testing guidelines and methodology for identifying, testing and analyzing a set of common performance, security and energy metrices for the virtualized ICT infrastructure platform within a green data centre environment. It involves the analysis and testing of the application service behavior with respect to its performance, security and the facility’s energy consumption, in a non-virtualized as well as within the virtualized ICT infrastructure. The data captured can be usedl for the application design and sizing, application modeling and simulation, and for assessment of the application performance in a virtualized environment.

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For more information, please contact:

Mr Foo Yong Wee
Manager
Communications & Networks Group

Nanyang Polytechnic
180, Ang Mo Kio Avenue 8
S569830
Tel: 6550-0962
Fax: 6452-0400
Email: Foo_Yong_Wee@nyp.gov.sg

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Last updated on 23 Apr 2009 by Jessie Goh