Designing and evaluating an energy efficient Cloud

  • Authors:
  • Laurent Lefèvre;Anne-Cécile Orgerie

  • Affiliations:
  • INRIA RESO, LIP (UMR CNRS, INRIA, ENS, UCB), Université de Lyon, Lyon, France;École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, LIP, INRIA RESO, Lyon Cedex 07, France 69364

  • Venue:
  • The Journal of Supercomputing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Cloud infrastructures have recently become a center of attention. They can support dynamic operational infrastructures adapted to the requirements of distributed applications. As large-scale distributed systems reach enormous sizes in terms of equipment, the energy consumption issue becomes one of the main challenges for large-scale integration. Like any other large-scale distributed system, Clouds face an increasing demand in energy. In this paper, we explore the energy issue by analyzing how much energy virtualized environments cost. We provide an energy-efficient framework dedicated to Cloud architectures and we validate it through different experimentations on a modern multicore platform. We show on a realistic example that our infrastructure could save 25% of the Cloud nodes' electrical consumption.