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Toward sustainable data centers: a comprehensive energy management strategy
Data centers are major contributors to the emission of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, and this contribution is expected to increase in the following years. This has encouraged the development of techniques to reduce the energy consumption and the environmental footprint of data centers. Whereas some of these techniques have succeeded to reduce the energy consumption of the hardware equipment of data centers (including IT, cooling, and power supply systems), we claim that sustainable data centers will be only possible if the problem is faced by means of a holistic approach that includes not only the aforementioned techniques but also intelligent and unifying solutions that enable a synergistic and energy-aware management of data centers.
In this paper, we propose a comprehensive strategy to reduce the carbon footprint of data centers that uses the energy as a driver of their management procedures. In addition, we present a holistic management architecture for sustainable data centers that implements the aforementioned strategy, and we propose design guidelines to accomplish each step of the proposed strategy, referring to related achievements and enumerating the main challenges that must be still solved.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft
Power Management Techniques for Data Centers: A Survey
With growing use of internet and exponential growth in amount of data to be
stored and processed (known as 'big data'), the size of data centers has
greatly increased. This, however, has resulted in significant increase in the
power consumption of the data centers. For this reason, managing power
consumption of data centers has become essential. In this paper, we highlight
the need of achieving energy efficiency in data centers and survey several
recent architectural techniques designed for power management of data centers.
We also present a classification of these techniques based on their
characteristics. This paper aims to provide insights into the techniques for
improving energy efficiency of data centers and encourage the designers to
invent novel solutions for managing the large power dissipation of data
centers.Comment: Keywords: Data Centers, Power Management, Low-power Design, Energy
Efficiency, Green Computing, DVFS, Server Consolidatio
Screening of energy efficient technologies for industrial buildings' retrofit
This chapter discusses screening of energy efficient technologies for industrial buildings' retrofit
Integrated Green Cloud Computing Architecture
Arbitrary usage of cloud computing, either private or public, can lead to
uneconomical energy consumption in data processing, storage and communication.
Hence, green cloud computing solutions aim not only to save energy but also
reduce operational costs and carbon footprints on the environment. In this
paper, an Integrated Green Cloud Architecture (IGCA) is proposed that comprises
of a client-oriented Green Cloud Middleware to assist managers in better
overseeing and configuring their overall access to cloud services in the
greenest or most energy-efficient way. Decision making, whether to use local
machine processing, private or public clouds, is smartly handled by the
middleware using predefined system specifications such as service level
agreement (SLA), Quality of service (QoS), equipment specifications and job
description provided by IT department. Analytical model is used to show the
feasibility to achieve efficient energy consumption while choosing between
local, private and public Cloud service provider (CSP).Comment: 6 pages, International Conference on Advanced Computer Science
Applications and Technologies, ACSAT 201
Powering down technology
This paper will examine the issue of energy consumption resulting from the use of technology. It will identify and evaluate potential solutions currently being deployed by data center managers. In addition, the paper will recommend guidelines for reducing energy consumption for both the individual and business consumer
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