DocumentCode
18480
Title
Designing and Managing Data centers Powered by Renewable Energy
Author
Goiri, Inigo ; Katsak, William ; Kien Le ; Nguyen, T.D. ; Bianchini, R.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ, USA
Volume
34
Issue
3
fYear
2014
fDate
May-June 2014
Firstpage
8
Lastpage
16
Abstract
On-site renewable energy has the potential to reduce datacenters´ carbon footprint and power and energy costs. The authors built Parasol, a solar-powered datacenter, and GreenSwitch, a system for scheduling workloads, to explore this potential in a controlled research setting.
Keywords
computer centres; cost reduction; energy conservation; power aware computing; solar power; GreenSwitch; Parasol; datacenter carbon footprint reduction; energy cost reduction; on-site renewable energy; power reduction; solar-powered datacenter; workload scheduling system; Batteries; Computer architecture; Computer science; Data centers; Green products; Renewable energy sources; Solar energy; Batteries; Computer architecture; Computer science; Data centers; Green products; GreenSwitch; Parasol; Renewable energy sources; Solar energy; batteries; datacenters; distributed systems; green computing; renewable energy; scheduling;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Micro, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0272-1732
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MM.2014.6
Filename
6756707
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