Temporal data mining approaches for sustainable chiller management in data centers

  • Authors:
  • Debprakash Patnaik;Manish Marwah;Ratnesh K. Sharma;Naren Ramakrishnan

  • Affiliations:
  • Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA;HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA;NEC Labs, Princeton, NJ;Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST)
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Practically every large IT organization hosts data centers---a mix of computing elements, storage systems, networking, power, and cooling infrastructure---operated either in-house or outsourced to major vendors. A significant element of modern data centers is their cooling infrastructure, whose efficient and sustainable operation is a key ingredient to the “always-on” capability of data centers. We describe the design and implementation of CAMAS (Chiller Advisory and MAnagement System), a temporal data mining solution to mine and manage chiller installations. CAMAS embodies a set of algorithms for processing multivariate time-series data and characterizes sustainability measures of the patterns mined. We demonstrate three key ingredients of CAMAS---motif mining, association analysis, and dynamic Bayesian network inference---that help bridge the gap between low-level, raw, sensor streams, and the high-level operating regions and features needed for an operator to efficiently manage the data center. The effectiveness of CAMAS is demonstrated by its application to a real-life production data center managed by HP.