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 Johanssonanders.oe.johansson@ltu.sewww.processitinnovations.se

Contact: Mikael BörjesonMikael.Borjeson@cdt.ltu.sewww.cdt.ltu.se

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 Zaslavskyarkady.zaslavsky@ltu.se

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 LindgrenPer.Lindgren@ltu.se

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: josefine@oricane.com 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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