DRPM: dynamic speed control for power management in server class disks
Proceedings of the 30th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Xen and the art of virtualization
SOSP '03 Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Cooperative I/O: a novel I/O semantics for energy-aware applications
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Currentcy: a unifying abstraction for expressing energy management policies
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Power provisioning for a warehouse-sized computer
Proceedings of the 34th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Optimizing network virtualization in Xen
ATEC '06 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX '06 Annual Technical Conference
VirtualPower: coordinated power management in virtualized enterprise systems
Proceedings of twenty-first ACM SIGOPS symposium on Operating systems principles
Energy management for hypervisor-based virtual machines
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Software techniques to improve virtualized I/O performance on multi-core systems
Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems
Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS international conference on Virtual execution environments
Power consumption breakdown on a modern laptop
PACS'04 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Power-Aware Computer Systems
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Power consumption is one of the key concerns in modern computers within which I/O consumes a significant portion of power, from portable devices to servers. This concern has led to the development of various hardware and software techniques to improve the energy efficiency of I/O subsystems in the native platform. However, virtualization poses new challenges, preventing those techniques from achieving the desired level of energy efficiency. In this paper, we analyze how I/O virtualization challenges impact energy efficiency, and propose a novel power-aware I/O virtualization architecture to tackle them. Our preliminary research on portable devices shows that new architecture can significantly extend battery life in a typical idle scenario, compared to existing solutions.