Expressive power-based resource allocation for data centers

  • Authors:
  • Benjamin Lubin;Jeffrey O. Kephart;Rajarshi Das;David C. Parkes

  • Affiliations:
  • Harvard University;IBM Thomas J. Watson, Research Center;IBM Thomas J. Watson, Research Center;Harvard University

  • Venue:
  • IJCAI'09 Proceedings of the 21st international jont conference on Artifical intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

As data-center energy consumption continues to rise, efficient power management is becoming increasingly important. In this work, we examine the use of a novel market mechanism for finding the right balance between power and performance. The market enables a separation between a 'buyer side' that strives to maximize performance and a 'seller side' that strives to minimize power and other costs. A concise and scalable description language is defined for agent preferences that admits a mixedinteger program for computing optimal allocations. Experimental results demonstrate the robustness, flexibility, practicality and scalability of the architecture.