Since the electricity bill of a data center constitutes a significant portion of its overall operational costs, reducing this has become important. We investigate cost reduction o...
Rahul Urgaonkar, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Michael J. Neel...
Studies have shown much of today’s data centers are over-provisioned and underutilized. Over-provisioning cannot be avoided as these centers must anticipate peak load with burst...
In Hwan Doh, Young Jin Kim, Jung Soo Park, Eunsam ...
Reducing power consumption for server computers is important, since increased energy usage causes increased heat dissipation, greater cooling requirements, reduced computational d...
Charles Weddle, Mathew Oldham, Jin Qian, An-I Andy...
The energy consumed by data centers is starting to make up a significant fraction of the world’s energy consumption and carbon emissions. A large fraction of the consumed energ...
Nosayba El-Sayed, Ioan A. Stefanovici, George Amvr...
In this paper we consider server farms with a setup cost. This model is common in manufacturing systems and data centers, where there is a cost to turn servers on. Setup costs alw...