GreenLight BlackBox 2.0
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Project Overview
Recent application for the GreenLight project, allowing users to visit the BlackBox virtually while observing live data from the physical BlackBox, such as power consumption and temperature readings. This allows non-obtrusive observation of the data, which could otherwise be affected if one were to enter the actual BlackBox. Additionally, a user can look at historical data of the components, with an effective "4D" display in which a range of data (spanning many days) is shown all at once via color gradients. The 8 racks within the Sun Data Center (the BlackBox) are populated with the components/servers/computers that are actually there via querying an up-to-date database of the hardware specs, along with the up-to-date energy statistics.
Status
- Load in BlackBox
- Load in racks/doors/waterpipes/electrical within box (separate entities)
- Racks & doors interaction/animation
- Populate the racks with hardware components based on files
- (High-level) Config file mapping for components to textures -- No more need to make individual server models.
- Update hardware data from remote site (message sending instead of file reading, no NFS delay)
- Transparency mode for non-component entities
- Read in power consumption data from remote site and display it via color gradients, relative to expected value for the component
- Selection interface to target specific components in the racks
To-Do
- Heuristics for expected min/max wattage values per component
- Read in power consumption data over a range of time in the past and display (animate through) it
Future Work
- Auto-pilot version of plugin (for demos, especially when a wand isn't available)
- Run through OssimPlanet
- Temperature zones (pull data and display)
- Temperature zones over a range of time from the past, animate through
Participants
Software Developers:
Project Advisors:
Development Assistance:
- Philip Weber
- Andrew Prudhomme
Initial Concept Base:
