[hpc-announce] SI on Renewable-Energy POwered Datacenters (REPOD) in SUSCOM Journal, Elsevier (Impact Factor 1.8)

[Jean-Marc PIERSON]

Special Issue on Renewable-Energy POwered Datacenters (REPOD)
Elsevier Journal SUSCOM : Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems

Scope: A significant step in mitigating the environmental impact of large-scale computing systems is to avoid using polluting energy sources for powering the ever growing needs of the field. While some approaches aim to increase the energy efficiency of existing datacenters, another path is to use as much renewable energy as possible as the source. Since datacenters are the main contributors to the energy usage of IT, and because their location is fixed and they are built for a long period, associating renewable energy production and storage with computing facilities is a widely investigated field. This special issue aims to collect  original research contributions from academia and industry working in all fields related to datacenters operated (mainly) by renewable energy. It is open to related topics in the fields of IT, electrical engineering, control systems, thermal engineering, etc. A  particular attention will be paid to studies explicitly mixing these different scientific fields, but contributions addressing only one of these are also welcomed. 

This special issue seeks original and unpublished research articles reporting on all aspects including theoretical studies, practical applications and experimental prototypes pertaining to renewable energy-powered datacenters. 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 
	• Efficient IT and energy resource scheduling, 
	• Uncertainty management, • Sizing of IT and energy infrastructure, 
	• Electrical distribution architecture and reliability, 
	• Long/short term energy storage in datacenters, 
	• Hydrogen uses in datacenters, 
	• Cooling technologies and heat management, • Geographically distributed datacenters, • Interactions with the electric power grid. 

The special issue will consider all contributions related to the theme, and is a continuation of the workshop on the same topic held in Besançon, France, in the context of the DATAZERO ( http://datazero.org ) project: http://events.femto-st.fr/workshop-datacenters-2019/en 

Submission Details: 
General information for submitting papers to SUSCOM can be found at http://www.journals.elsevier.com/sustainable-computing/ (please note the “Guide for Authors” link). Submissions to this Special Issue (SI) should be made using Elsevier’s editorial system at the journal website ( http://www.journals.elsevier.com/sustainablecomputing/ under the “Submit Your Paper” link). Please make sure to select the “SI: Renewable-energies powered datacenters (REPOD) ” option for the type of the paper during the submission process. All submissions must be original and may not be under review by another publication. A submission based on one or more papers that appeared elsewhere has to comprise major value-added extensions over what appeared previously (at least 30% new material). Authors are requested to attach to the submitted paper their relevant, previously published articles and a summary document explaining the enhancements made in the journal version. All submitted papers will be peer reviewed using the normal standards of SUSCOM. By submitting a paper to this issue, the authors agree to referee one paper (if asked) within the time frame of the SI. 

Important Dates: 
Manuscript due date: January 31, 2020 
First decision notification: April 30, 2020 
Tentative publication schedule: Mid 2020 

Special Issue Editors:
Jean-Marc Nicod, Professor, FEMTO-ST, CNRS, ENSMM, Univ. Bourgogne Franche-Comte 
Jean-Marc.Nicod at ens2m.fr 

Dr. Jean-Marc Pierson, Professor, 
Toulouse Institute of Computer Science Research , IRIT, Univ. Toulouse, France Jean-Marc.Pierson at irit.fr 

Dr. Robin Roche, Associate Professor, FEMTO-ST, CNRS, UTBM, Univ. Bourgogne Franche-Comte 
robin.roche at ubfc.fr
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