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\begin{frame}\frametitle{Motivation}
\begin{tcolorbox}[title=Context]
- 21\textsuperscript{st} century datacenters are primarily heterogeneous~\cite{DBLP:conf/date/MilojicicFDR21} and
+ 21\textsuperscript{st} century datacenters (DC) are mostly heterogeneous~\cite{DBLP:conf/date/MilojicicFDR21} and
modern computational needs of AI drive managers to diversify datacenters even more~\cite{DBLP:journals/computer/AthavaleBBMMPS24}.
In result datacenters become extremely complex and hard to operate with millions of CPU's, GPU's etc.
\end{tcolorbox}
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I hope it fits its purpose well.
\end{tcolorbox}
\input{images/table.tex}
+ % Research on DTs for datacenters have been separate, siloed efforts focused on either datacenter cooling, network performance, power consumption or visualization efforts.
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}\frametitle{\textbf{RQ1}: Literature Review II}
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\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=0.8\textwidth]{images/system_model2.pdf}
\end{center}
+ % The reason why the cooling system is in the graph is because of the fact that 40\% of total energy consumed in DCs comes from cooling~\cite{DBLP:conf/noms/ZhangZLZWC22}.
+ % It has come to the point where datacenters are being build in the Pan-Arctic region, such as Finland,Russia,Sweden etc. with Iceland leading in number of DCs https://www.datacentermap.com/iceland/
+ % The SmarDC digital twin is purely to get more training data for AI models.
+ % Not really a digital twin per se.
\tiny
- \textbf{Figure 1.3:} To answer \textbf{RQ1} we designed a generic datacenter digital twin system model based on a comprehensive literature review and findings from \textbf{Table 1.1}.
+ \textbf{Figure 1.3:} To answer \textbf{RQ1} we designed a generic datacenter digital twin system model based on a comprehensive literature review and findings from \textbf{Table 1.1}. The \emph{Infrastructure Model} simulates the structure of the DC and the \emph{Operations model} simulates the behaviour of the DC.
% Consider splitting the figure into 2 a.k.a. top and bottom.
+ % By the AIAA definition, the DT mimicks the structure and behaviour.
% Data Lake -> Data Storage
+ % Use cases of DT's found by Brewer et al.: augmented reality, forensic analysis and diagnostics, predictive modelling, failure detection, operational optimization, ``what-if''' scenarios and virtual prototyping.
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}\frametitle{\textbf{RQ2}: Reference Architecture}
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\end{center}
\vspace{-0.2cm}
\tiny
- \textbf{Figure 1.4:} The predictive datacenter digital twin architecture.
+ \textbf{Figure 1.4:} The predictive datacenter digital twin architecture. The time-series data flows initially to the \texttt{Kibana} dashboard, \texttt{PostgreSQL} database and \texttt{Redis} cache, as suggested in~\cite{DBLP:conf/sc/TaheriBPRHDEWPM24}.
\end{minipage}
\hfill
+ % We decided to use discrete-event simulation, as opposed to computational fluid dynamics because of the high overheads of development time needed for CFD.
+ % CFD simply takes too long to run, making it unfeasible for real-time analytics and simulation.
+ % Citing ExaDigit: [CFD] they are also more computationally expensive, generally making real-time operation unfeasible.
% Consider adding this minipage directly to the ``draw.io'' diagram
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.42\linewidth}
\begin{tcolorbox}[title=Functional Req.]