idw – Informationsdienst Wissenschaft
Nachrichten, Termine, Experten
Nachrichten, Termine, Experten
Lower Saxony’s universities begin joint project headed by Leibniz University Hannover.
Efficient energy management at Lower Saxony’s universities and universities of applied sciences. This is the goal of the Academic Green IT Alliance project, which has now taken up work under the leadership of Leibniz University Hannover (LUH). All 20 of the public universities and universities of applied sciences in Lower Saxony are taking part. The collaborative project is being led by Dr. Thomas Rupp, head of Leibniz Universität IT Services.
The joint project of the umbrella initiative Hochschule.digital Niedersachen has been granted a total of 10 million euros in funding from the Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony and the Volkswagen Foundation through the zukunft.niedersachsen programme. As part of the project, the Lower Saxony competence centre for green IT at university computing centres will be established at Leibniz Universität IT Services (LUIS). Green IT offices will also be set up at nine universities. Over the next four years, they will focus on countering the increasing energy consumption at university computing centres in Lower Saxony.
The project will focus on the introduction of energy management systems, the optimisation of cooling and ventilation concepts, the use of energy-efficient hardware and sustainable IT purchasing. The measures will be tailored to the needs of the individual universities and support the state-wide IT strategy.
The significant increase in digital services coupled with the commitment to operate in a climate-friendly, resource-efficient and sustainable manner necessitates efficient IT energy management. Artificial intelligence and deep learning applications increasingly require specialised systems with a high level of energy consumption (GPU systems). However, demand for computing and storage capacity is increasing across other central IT services as well.
Note to editors:
For further information, please contact Prof. Dr. Thomas Rupp, head of Leibniz Universität IT Services (tel. +49 511 762 3170; email: rupp@luis.uni-hannover.de).
AI-generated
Criteria of this press release:
Business and commerce, Journalists, Scientists and scholars, Students, Teachers and pupils, all interested persons
Information technology
transregional, national
Cooperation agreements, Research projects
English
AI-generated
You can combine search terms with and, or and/or not, e.g. Philo not logy.
You can use brackets to separate combinations from each other, e.g. (Philo not logy) or (Psycho and logy).
Coherent groups of words will be located as complete phrases if you put them into quotation marks, e.g. “Federal Republic of Germany”.
You can also use the advanced search without entering search terms. It will then follow the criteria you have selected (e.g. country or subject area).
If you have not selected any criteria in a given category, the entire category will be searched (e.g. all subject areas or all countries).
