On energy- and cooling-aware data centre workload management

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Abstract

The power consumption of a data centre (DC)can be attributed to the power consumed for running the servers and to the computer room air conditioner (CRAC)power for cooling them. The challenge is to distribute the load among servers, controlling the number of active servers and optimally balancing IT and cooling power requirement. This goal demands integration of thermal, power and workload models that minimises a non-linear energy utilisation function. In this paper first we encode this problem using a non-linear objective function and use local search for solving it. We carryout simulation experiments using data provided by the Bluesimtool. The results encourage the effectiveness of our approach, showing that system-wide energy utilisation can be reduced using a holistic approach.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2015 IEEE/ACM 15th International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing, CCGrid 2015
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1111-1114
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781479980062
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 7 Jul 2015
Event15th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing, CCGrid 2015 - Shenzhen, China
Duration: 4 May 20157 May 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2015 IEEE/ACM 15th International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing, CCGrid 2015

Conference

Conference15th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing, CCGrid 2015
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShenzhen
Period4/05/157/05/15

Keywords

  • Energy minimisation
  • Local search

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