Giorgos Fagas

University College CorkIreland

Dr. Giorgos Fagas, MBA, leads the activities of the EU Programmes Office at Tyndall National Institute. He is also co-founder of EOLAS Designs Ltd. Giorgos has been an active promoter of European research with his contributions to strategic research agendas, technology roadmaps, EU project coordination/participation and networking events. He has also been leading activities in nanoelectronics and energy-efficient electronics as senior researcher at Tyndall National Institute. Previously, Giorgos has been a Humboldt fellow at the University of Regensburg and a research fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut-PKS in Dresden. His research has been published in over 60 peer-reviewed articles. He is the editor of two reference books on Molecular Electronics and Concepts for ICT-Energy.

2books edited

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In a previous volume (ICT-Energy-Concepts Towards Zero-Power ICT; referenced below as Vol. 1), we addressed some of the fundamentals related to bridging the gap between the amount of energy required to operate portable/mobile ICT systems and the amount of energy available from ambient sources. The only viable solution appears to be to attack the gap from both sides, i.e. to reduce the amount of energy dissipated during computation and to improve the efficiency in energy-harvesting technologies. In this book, we build on those concepts and continue the discussion on energy efficiency and sustainability by addressing the minimisation of energy consumption at different levels across the ICT system stack, from hardware to software, as well as discussing energy consumption issues in high-performance computing (HPC), data centres and communication in sensor networks.

This book was realised thanks to the contribution of the project ‘Coordinating Research Efforts of the ICT-Energy Community’ funded from the European Union under the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) area of the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (grant agreement n. 611004).

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ICT - Energy Concepts for Energy Efficiency and SustainabilityAuthored by Giorgos Fagas

By Gabriel Abadal Berini, Giorgos Fagas, Luca Gammaitoni and Douglas Paul

Part of the book: ICT - Energy - Concepts Towards Zero

Energy Challenges for ICT

By Giorgos Fagas, John P. Gallagher, Luca Gammaitoni and Douglas J. Paul

The energy consumption from the expanding use of information and communications technology (ICT) is unsustainable with present drivers, and it will impact heavily on the future climate change. However, ICT devices have the potential to contribute significantly to the reduction of CO2 emission and enhance resource efficiency in other sectors, e.g., transportation (through intelligent transportation and advanced driver assistance systems and self-driving vehicles), heating (through smart building control), and manufacturing (through digital automation based on smart autonomous sensors). To address the energy sustainability of ICT and capture the full potential of ICT in resource efficiency, a multidisciplinary ICT-energy community needs to be brought together covering devices, microarchitectures, ultra large-scale integration (ULSI), high-performance computing (HPC), energy harvesting, energy storage, system design, embedded systems, efficient electronics, static analysis, and computation. In this chapter, we introduce challenges and opportunities in this emerging field and a common framework to strive towards energy-sustainable ICT.

Part of the book: ICT - Energy Concepts for Energy Efficiency and Sustainability

Giorgos Fagas

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ICT - Energy Concepts for Energy Efficiency and Sustainability

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ICT - Energy - Concepts Towards Zero

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