Delivering Energy Proportionality with Non Energy-Proportional Systems - Optimizing the Ensemble

: ? Delivering Energy Proportionality with Non Energy-Proportional Systems-Optimizing the Ensemble Niraj Tolia, Zhikui Wang, Manish Marwah, Cullen Bash, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Xiaoyun Zhu HP Laboratories HPL-2008-198 Power, Cooling, Control, Virtualization, Performance, Modeling, VM Migration With power having become a critical issue in the operation of data centers today, there has been an increased push towards the vision of "energy-proportional computing", in which no power is used by idle systems, very low power is used by lightly loaded systems, and proportionately higher power at higher loads. Unfortunately, given the state of the art of today's hardware, designing individual servers that exhibit this property remains an open challenge. However, even in the absence of redesigned hardware, we demonstrate how optimization-based techniques can be used to build systems with off-the-shelf hardware that, when viewed at the aggregate level, approximate the behavior of...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: OSDI
• Authors: Niraj Tolia, Zhikui Wang, Manish Marwah, Cullen Bash, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Xiaoyun Zhu
• Keywords: Ensemble Niraj Tolia, Operating System, OSDI 2008, Power Aware Computing, Xiaoyun Zhu HP