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SHIP: Scalable Hierarchical Power Control for Large-Scale Data Centers

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SHIP: Scalable Hierarchical Power Control for Large-Scale Data Centers
In today’s data centers, precisely controlling server power consumption is an essential way to avoid system failures caused by power capacity overload or overheating due to increasingly high server density. While various power control strategies have been recently proposed, existing solutions are not scalable to control the power consumption of an entire large-scale data center, because these solutions are designed only for a single server or a rack enclosure. In a modern data center, however, power control needs to be enforced at three levels: rack enclosure, power distribution unit, and the entire data center, due to the physical and contractual power limits at each level. This paper presents SHIP, a highly scalable hierarchical power control architecture for large-scale data centers. SHIP is designed based on well-established control theory for analytical assurance of control accuracy and system stability. Empirical results on a physical testbed show that our control solution can...
Xiaorui Wang, Ming Chen, Charles Lefurgy, Tom W. K
Added 24 May 2010
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Type Conference
Year 2009
Where IEEEPACT
Authors Xiaorui Wang, Ming Chen, Charles Lefurgy, Tom W. Keller
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