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Reducing Electricity Demand Charge for Data Centers with Partial Execution
Data centers consume a large amount of energy and incur substantial
electricity cost. In this paper, we study the familiar problem of reducing data
center energy cost with two new perspectives. First, we find, through an
empirical study of contracts from electric utilities powering Google data
centers, that demand charge per kW for the maximum power used is a major
component of the total cost. Second, many services such as Web search tolerate
partial execution of the requests because the response quality is a concave
function of processing time. Data from Microsoft Bing search engine confirms
this observation.
We propose a simple idea of using partial execution to reduce the peak power
demand and energy cost of data centers. We systematically study the problem of
scheduling partial execution with stringent SLAs on response quality. For a
single data center, we derive an optimal algorithm to solve the workload
scheduling problem. In the case of multiple geo-distributed data centers, the
demand of each data center is controlled by the request routing algorithm,
which makes the problem much more involved. We decouple the two aspects, and
develop a distributed optimization algorithm to solve the large-scale request
routing problem. Trace-driven simulations show that partial execution reduces
cost by for one data center, and by for geo-distributed
data centers together with request routing.Comment: 12 page
On the feasibility of collaborative green data center ecosystems
The increasing awareness of the impact of the IT sector on the environment, together with economic factors, have fueled many research efforts to reduce the energy expenditure of data centers. Recent work proposes to achieve additional energy savings by exploiting, in concert with customers, service workloads and to reduce data centers’ carbon footprints by adopting demand-response mechanisms between data centers and their energy providers. In this paper, we debate about the incentives that customers and data centers can have to adopt such measures and propose a new service type and pricing scheme that is economically attractive and technically realizable. Simulation results based on real measurements confirm that our scheme can achieve additional energy savings while preserving service performance and the interests of data centers and customers.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft
A truthful incentive mechanism for emergency demand response in colocation data centers
Data centers are key participants in demand response programs, including emergency demand response (EDR), where the grid coordinates large electricity consumers for demand reduction in emergency situations to prevent major economic losses. While existing literature concentrates on owner-operated data centers, this work studies EDR in multi-tenant colocation data centers where servers are owned and managed by individual tenants. EDR in colocation data centers is significantly more challenging, due to lack of incentives to reduce energy consumption by tenants who control their servers and are typically on fixed power contracts with the colocation operator. Consequently, to achieve demand reduction goals set by the EDR program, the operator has to rely on the highly expensive and/or environmentally-unfriendly on-site energy backup/generation. To reduce cost and environmental impact, an efficient incentive mechanism is therefore in need, motivating tenants’ voluntary energy reduction in case of EDR. This work proposes a novel incentive mechanism, Truth-DR, which leverages a reverse auction to provide monetary remuneration to tenants according to their agreed energy reduction. Truth-DR is computationally efficient, truthful, and achieves 2-approximation in colocation-wide social cost. Trace-driven simulations verify the efficacy of the proposed auction mechanism.published_or_final_versio
Energy Efficient Service Delivery in Clouds in Compliance with the Kyoto Protocol
Cloud computing is revolutionizing the ICT landscape by providing scalable
and efficient computing resources on demand. The ICT industry - especially data
centers, are responsible for considerable amounts of CO2 emissions and will
very soon be faced with legislative restrictions, such as the Kyoto protocol,
defining caps at different organizational levels (country, industry branch
etc.) A lot has been done around energy efficient data centers, yet there is
very little work done in defining flexible models considering CO2. In this
paper we present a first attempt of modeling data centers in compliance with
the Kyoto protocol. We discuss a novel approach for trading credits for
emission reductions across data centers to comply with their constraints. CO2
caps can be integrated with Service Level Agreements and juxtaposed to other
computing commodities (e.g. computational power, storage), setting a foundation
for implementing next-generation schedulers and pricing models that support
Kyoto-compliant CO2 trading schemes
A robust modeling framework for energy analysis of data centers
Global digitalization has given birth to the explosion of digital services in
approximately every sector of contemporary life. Applications of artificial
intelligence, blockchain technologies, and internet of things are promising to
accelerate digitalization further. As a consequence, the number of data
centers, which provide the services of data processing, storage, and
communication services, is also increasing rapidly. Because data centers are
energy-intensive with significant and growing electricity demand, an energy
model of data centers with temporal, spatial, and predictive analysis
capability is critical for guiding industry and governmental authorities for
making technology investment decisions. However, current models fail to provide
consistent and high dimensional energy analysis for data centers due to severe
data gaps. This can be further attributed to the lack of the modeling
capabilities for energy analysis of data center components including IT
equipment and data center cooling and power provisioning infrastructure in
current energy models. In this research, a technology-based modeling framework,
in hybrid with a data-driven approach, is proposed to address the knowledge
gaps in current data center energy models. The research aims to provide policy
makers and data center energy analysts with comprehensive understanding of data
center energy use and efficiency opportunities and a better understanding of
macro-level data center energy demand and energy saving potentials, in addition
to the technological barriers for adopting energy efficiency measures
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