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Oricane AB Josefine Åhl, Algorithm Designer. Strengths of the university Leading-edge research Applied research Multidisciplinary Focus areas and development areas Geographical location - climate Warm and welcoming. Scandinavia’s northernmost university of technology - ambition - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Oricane ABJosefine Åhl, Algorithm Designer
Strengths of the university
Leading-edge research
Applied research
Multidisciplinary
Focus areas and development areas
Geographical location - climate
Warm and welcoming
Scandinavia’s northernmost university of technology - ambition A forerunner in thought and action
World-class education and research
Cross-disciplinary collaboration and interaction
53%Research
47%Education
Facts about the university
Founded 1971
Turnover 130 million euro
12,000 students
1,400 employees
150 professors500 teachers & researchers641 doctoral students*
69 research subjects in 12 departments
Conducts research in the Faculty of engineering and the Faculty of arts and social sciences
Source: annual report 2007
*Including doctoral students in industry, not counted in total employees at LTU
Faculty of engineering
Turnover 56 million euro
53 research subjects
6 departments
Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
One of the university’s engineering education departments
Providing education and conducting research in the field of ”Computers in Physical Systems”
Co-operation
ProcessIT Innovations
The Centre for Distance-Spanning Technology
ProcessIT Innovations
Collaboration centre for processing and engineering industries, universities and IT companies
Run R&D projects and activities based on identified needs of the basic industry
Leads to new products and services with large IT content
Owned and delivered by new or existing companies in an international market
Contact: Anders OE [email protected]
Contact: Mikael Bö[email protected]
Centre for Distance-Spanning Technology (CDT)
Centre for IT research, development and innovation
Creative environment for prosperous collaboration between academy, IT companies, public authorities and users
Integrates research, prototyping and business development
Extending Human Capabilities with advanced information, interaction and communication technology
Offsprings
Effnet
Marratech
Operax
Oricane
New Programs at Luleå University of Technology
Behind the start-up is the need of academically trained workforce from basic industry and community
Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Mobile Systems
Sustainable IT Systems
Mobile Systems
A new Master Program, September 2009
Academic areas targeted are services, applications and network solutions in mobile computing environments
Multidisciplinary academic program that focuses on future systems
Attract new students
Contribute to the creation of new companies within the mobile industry
Contact: Prof. Arkady [email protected]
Sustainable IT Systems
A new green Master Program, September 2009
Focus on the global environment
New sustainable and energy efficient technologies can help to improve
Hot and important topic
Attract new students
Contribute to the creation of new environmental friendly companies
Contact: Prof. Per [email protected]
Successful companies originated from the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Effnet AB (1997)
Operax (1999)
Rockstorm Technology AB (2000)
Nordnav (2002)
Oricane AB (2006)
…
Total VC:
Total Market Cap:
70 million euro
1.3 billion euro
1 million euro/employee
19 million euro/employee
Vint Cerf• Research presented at seminar• Chief Internet evangelist, Google
Seed Funding• Equity: 10,5 %• Funding: 800 000 Euro
Green Software Technology • My journey with Oricane began• Launch Goto-Market Strategy• Package Green Software Product Portfolio• Dr. Craig Partridge joins as technical advisor
Oricane AB - Founded• Continued research• Build Patent Portfolio• PhD Defense• Opponent Dr. Craig Partridge, BBN Technologies
Academic Research• Luleå University of Technology (LTU)• ”Time and Space Efficient Algorithms for Packet Classification and Forwarding”• Algorithmic Engineering• Supervisor Svante Carlsson, founder of Effnet AB
”Green Software””Company founded”Nov - 2006 Sep - 20072000
”Academic Research”
8 years of research in energy efficient software8(+5) patent applications and 13 trademarks filed in 18 months
June - 2005”Vint Cerf” ”Seed funding”
Oct - 2007
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Center for Distance Spanning Technology (CDT)• Organization within Luleå University of Technology• VITAL – Objective 1 Norra Norrland EU structural fund programme (MÅL 1)• EEU – sponsored by Nutek and by MÅL 1 (2006)• Funding for most of the work since 2003
1997”Mikael Sundström”
Oricane ABJosefine Åhl, Algorithm Designer
Oct - 2006”CDT”
Mikael Sundström• Degree of Licentiate of Technology - Luleå University of Technology (LTU)
• Joined start-up company Effnet AB - Chief Technology Officer • Founded Rockstorm Technology AB
April - 2006”Vinnova”
Vinnova• Project ”Classification of IPv6 Traffic”• Continue until 2009
An Entrepreneurial University project• Luleå University of Technology (LTU)• Nils Svanljung• Financed the first round of patent applications
2006”EntrepreneurailUniversity”
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The Challenge
• Internet uses 5% of the total electric power production in the world
• Internet growth is 50-60% per year
× 900,000,000
× 60,000,000
× 90
× 135,000,000,000
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Current efforts
• Google ”Recharge the Planet” The worlds largest corporate campus solar power installation
• Sun ”Eco Innovation Initiative” $2 billion per year to improve hardware power consumption
• IBM ”Project Big Green” $1 billion per year to improve server utilization in data centers
• ”Climate Savers Computing Initiative” Google and Intel have invited the largest hardware vendors to work together on the problem
Focus: Energy efficient hardware
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Oricane’s focusEnergy efficient software
Oricane’s missionReduce the power consumption of the Internet
Oricane’s edge
• 8 years of research
• 8 (+ 5) patent applications
• 13 trademarks
Focus: Energy efficient software
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Moore’s Law x 2x 18
Implications on Software Industry• No need to engineer efficient software • Moore’s law “takes care” of performance
Software IS NOT energy efficient
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• Digital signal processing
• Graphics rendering
• Weather simulations
• Packet forwarding (i.e., routing lookups)
• Packet classification (i.e., firewall filtering)
• Data storage, searching and indexing (i.e., data centers)
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• Packet forwarding (i.e., routing lookups)
• Packet classification (i.e., firewall filtering)
• Data storage, searching and indexing (i.e., data centers)
Oricane improves the efficiencyof decision processes in software
This is how it works…
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ENERGY = PROCESSOR × MEMORY
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Traditional software technologyOptimizing MEMORYMEMORY cost is reducedPROCESSOR cost blows up
Optimizing PROCESSINGPROCESSOR cost is reducedMEMORY cost blows up
HIGH POWERCONSUMPTION
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Oricane’s green software technologyOptimizing MEMORY and PROCESSORMEMORY cost is reducedPROCESSOR cost is reduced
LOW POWERCONSUMPTION
How to reduce power
• Optimize and mold all decision processes
• Schedule to create idle intervals
• Shut down the processor during idle intervals
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Power consumption
Decision processes
Internet Storage Case Study: Data CentersHow to unleash the full potential of virtualization
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BioCAM™Software based extended ternary content addressable memory featuring low deterministic memory usage with high deterministic lookup speed independent of the number of cells.
Mobile phones Routing and firewalling99% energy savings for IPv6 packet forwarding
75% energy savings for IPv6 packet classification
Packet classification and packet forwarding
2.4 kB memory (IPv4)
Packet classification (firewall filtering) for mobile phones
6.4 kB memory (IPv6)
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Euro Phone Book• Over 134 million contacts• Name, Phone Number• In your mobile phone• 50-70 milliseconds search time
Contact database application• For comparison and demonstration• Same information as in the mobile phone• Computer is at least 10 times more powerful• Similar or better search time on mobile phone
The Golden Mobile Award
”Mobile Technology Development of the year”
BioDEX mobile™Solution for compressing, storing and searching information in mobile phones and other small devices
× 198,000,000
× 12,000,000
× 18
× 27,000,000,000
1%Josefine ÅhlAlgorithm Designer
E-mail: [email protected] Internet: www.oricane.com Org no: 556716-6805
Office: +46 920 753 72Mobile: +46 70 294 92 95
Oricane ABAurorum 1 C977 75 LuleåSweden
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