Data Center Energy Efficiency:Improving Energy Efficiency in Data Centers Beyond Technology Scaling

Author

Chong, Frederic T. ; Heck, Martijn J. R. ; Ranganathan, Parthasarathy ; Saleh, Adel A. M. ; Wassel, Hassan M. G.

Volume

31

Issue

1

fYear

2014

fDate

Feb. 2014

Firstpage

93

Lastpage

104

Abstract

The paper identifies four key themes that should be addressed to improve energy efficiency in data centers: These include understanding the newly emerging workload space to ensure proper matching of architecture design to application requirements; provisioning data center resources for predicted future workloads and applications, and improving the energy proportionality of individual machines to correlate power consumption to load; improving vertical integration within the software stacks of communication, storage, and runtime systems; and establishing standards for hardware and software communications to allow the integration of new technologies and component designs.

Keywords

computer centres; energy conservation; resource allocation; software engineering; application requirements; architecture design; communication systems; data center; energy efficiency; energy proportionality; hardware communications; power consumption; resource provisioning; runtime systems; software communications; storage systems; technology scaling; vertical software stacks integration; workload space; Data centers; Economics; Energy efficienct; Energy management; Market research; big data; datacenters; energy efficiency; technology scaling;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Design & Test, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

2168-2356

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MDAT.2013.2294466

Filename

6680599