Energy aware consolidation for cloud computing

  • Authors:
  • Shekhar Srikantaiah;Aman Kansal;Feng Zhao

  • Affiliations:
  • Pennsylvania State University;Microsoft Research;Microsoft Research

  • Venue:
  • HotPower'08 Proceedings of the 2008 conference on Power aware computing and systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Consolidation of applications in cloud computing environments presents a significant opportunity for energy optimization. As a first step toward enabling energy efficient consolidation, we study the inter-relationships between energy consumption, resource utilization, and performance of consolidated workloads. The study reveals the energy performance trade-offs for consolidation and shows that optimal operating points exist. We model the consolidation problem as a modified bin packing problem and illustrate it with an example. Finally, we outline the challenges in finding effective solutions to the consolidation problem.