Before starting

let me just not clarify

but be a little bit more specific.

So the software and our proposal that I am going to present today started a few years

ago as a research project between BSC and Lenovo in the context of energy

runtime

energy monitoring and optimization

mostly for HPC at that moment

like six

seven years ago. Okay. I'm still associate researchers and the team leader of the system

software for energy management.

And then like five years ago, we decided to create the company,

which is a spin-off of BSC and UPC.

And then right now, and this is just to give you a little bit

more of context

we have decided that there is

let's say these two lines in parallel where BSC

we deploy what we call the ER core

which is the open source part of ER with the main functionality

both in terms of monitoring and optimization.

But then we created this company to provide

professional services on top of ER. And in the last two years, we also started some

like private developments specific for the company,

mostly in the context of GPU optimization, analytics, and so on. Today, the presentation

will be a technical presentation.

I mean, I am not going to enter into business details or

these kinds of things.

Okay.

So this is how I, let's say, prepare this presentation.

So probably the

initial five minutes will be something that all of you will be aware or well known of why energy

efficiency is needed in data centers. But I will give you a little bit our view of why it's needed,

which are the stakeholders or the participants of this overall goal of having energy efficiency

data centers. And what is the ER contribution in this global picture? Because of course,

we are a system software tool

and then we cannot have too much influence

let's say

for example

in the hardware or in other parts of the system, like the cooling, but it's just to put the global

context.

So based on this initial motivation, I will go through different topics.

What is our view

or what is the full picture of the data center monitoring and management? In some of these parts,

I will mention that we are doing some active development or active contributions or at BSE

or in the context of the company.

And in some other cases, it's just the roadmap we have for a

medium term

but this may be in some other cases

we don't have yet any

let's say