Chandrakant D. Patel is an HP senior fellow and director of the Sustainable Ecosystems Research Lab at HP Labs, where he focuses on the creation of a sustainable IT ecosystem with the goal of driving the reduction of carbon emissions throughout the global economy. Patel’s supply- and demand-side approach in creating a sustainable IT ecosystem builds on his pioneering work in the late 1990s on holistically managing available energy as a key resource in data centers. He initiated research in “smart” data centers, emphasizing that the “data center is the computer,” and it requires a management system that enables dynamic provisioning of compute, power, and cooling resources based on the need. The research resulted in a suite of products and services from HP. Patel has helped establish HP’s leadership in energy-efficient computing by founding the HP Labs’ thermal technology research program in the early 1990s and subsequently the data-center architecture program.

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