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On Reliability-Aware Server Consolidation in Cloud Datacenters
In the past few years, datacenter (DC) energy consumption has become an
important issue in technology world. Server consolidation using virtualization
and virtual machine (VM) live migration allows cloud DCs to improve resource
utilization and hence energy efficiency. In order to save energy, consolidation
techniques try to turn off the idle servers, while because of workload
fluctuations, these offline servers should be turned on to support the
increased resource demands. These repeated on-off cycles could affect the
hardware reliability and wear-and-tear of servers and as a result, increase the
maintenance and replacement costs. In this paper we propose a holistic
mathematical model for reliability-aware server consolidation with the
objective of minimizing total DC costs including energy and reliability costs.
In fact, we try to minimize the number of active PMs and racks, in a
reliability-aware manner. We formulate the problem as a Mixed Integer Linear
Programming (MILP) model which is in form of NP-complete. Finally, we evaluate
the performance of our approach in different scenarios using extensive
numerical MATLAB simulations.Comment: International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing
(ISPDC), Innsbruck, Austria, 201
Signatures of few-body resonances in finite volume
We study systems of bosons and fermions in finite periodic boxes and show how
the existence and properties of few-body resonances can be extracted from
studying the volume dependence of the calculated energy spectra. Using a
plane-wave-based discrete variable representation to conveniently implement
periodic boundary conditions, we establish that avoided level crossings occur
in the spectra of up to four particles and can be linked to the existence of
multi-body resonances. To benchmark our method we use two-body calculations,
where resonance properties can be determined with other methods, as well as a
three-boson model interaction known to generate a three-boson resonance state.
Finding good agreement for these cases, we then predict three-body and
four-body resonances for models using a shifted Gaussian potential. Our results
establish few-body finite-volume calculations as a new tool to study few-body
resonances. In particular, the approach can be used to study few-neutron
systems, where such states have been conjectured to exist.Comment: 13 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables, published versio
Convergence of an adaptive mixed finite element method for general second order linear elliptic problems
The convergence of an adaptive mixed finite element method for general second
order linear elliptic problems defined on simply connected bounded polygonal
domains is analyzed in this paper. The main difficulties in the analysis are
posed by the non-symmetric and indefinite form of the problem along with the
lack of the orthogonality property in mixed finite element methods. The
important tools in the analysis are a posteriori error estimators,
quasi-orthogonality property and quasi-discrete reliability established using
representation formula for the lowest-order Raviart-Thomas solution in terms of
the Crouzeix-Raviart solution of the problem. An adaptive marking in each step
for the local refinement is based on the edge residual and volume residual
terms of the a posteriori estimator. Numerical experiments confirm the
theoretical analysis.Comment: 24 pages, 8 figure
Enhancing Workflow with a Semantic Description of Scientific Intent
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