The "ICT-Energy training day" has taken place in Bristol, UK, on Sept. 14, 2015.

This event precedes the Academia-Industry workshop (September 15th) on the energy challenge in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) as part of the activities of the ICT-Energy Coordination Action. The Vision of the ICT-Energy Action is to direct research towards sustainable energy solutions for ICT devices and systems. There are two main aims required to meet this vision. The first is that the consumption of energy by ICT must be reduced. The second is that the use of sustainable energy and in particular renewable energy systems must be increased to power the majority of ICT systems.
Addressing the challenge of energy consumption in ICT brings together stakeholders from diverse technological background and scientific disciplines. The training day will focus on coherent simple presentations of major issues and research topics in the various layers of ICT-Energy. Presenting themes from hardware to software and from nano- to macro-scale, the lecturers will aim to bridge knowledge gaps, share a common understanding and strengthen the links between the workshop participants.

This event is aimed at providing basic introduction to the ICT-Energy topics through 7 lectures held by international experts. Topics will cover:

- Power- and thermal-aware algorithms, software and hardware
- Fundamentals of low-power electronics
- Energy harvesting and next generation smart sensors
- Data centres optimization
- Power-efficient delivery and cooling
- Matching energy supply and demand

This was the program of the event:

• 10:00 - 11:00 Energy and power management concepts (Luca Gammaitoni, University of Perugia) (slides)
• 11:00 - 12:00 Energy-aware computing (Kerstin Eder/James Pallister, University of Bristol) (slides)
• 12:00 - 13:00 Thermal properties of materials (Ivana Savic, Tyndall National Institute) (slides)
• 14:00 - 15:00 Whole-systems energy transparency (John Patrick Gallagher, Roskilde University) (slides)
• 15:00 - 16:00 Photovoltaics and thermoelectrics (Douglas Paul, University of Glasgow) (slides)
• 16:00 - 17:00 Algorithms, System and Data Centre optimisation for Energy-Efficient HPC (Vincent Heuveline, EMCL-IWR) (slides)
• 17:00 - 18:00 Piezoelectric energy harvesting and applications (Nathan Jackson, Tyndall National Institute) (slides)

Some pictures from the training day are presented here below.