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...
- The current energy and environmental cost trends of datacenters are unsustainable. It is critically important to develop datacenter-wide power and thermal management (PTM) soluti...
Ehsan Pakbaznia, Mohammad Ghasemazar, Massoud Pedr...
Thermal management is critical for clusters because of the increasing power consumption of modern processors, compact server architectures and growing server density in data center...
Power management in data centers has become an increasingly important concern. Large server installations are designed to handle peak load, which may be significantly larger than...
Vivek Sharma, Arun Thomas, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Ke...
In this paper, we consider an M/M/k queueing system with setup costs. Servers are turned off when there is no work to do, but turning on an off server incurs a setup cost. The s...