Energy-Aware Accounting and Billing in Large-Scale Computing Facilities

  • Authors:

  • Victor Jimenez;Francisco Cazorla;Roberto Gioiosa;Eren Kursun;Canturk Isci;Alper Buyuktosunoglu;Pradip Bose;Mateo Valero

  • Affiliations:

  • Barcelona Supercomputing Center;Barcelona Supercomputing Center;Spanish National Research Council;Polytechnic University of Catalonia;IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center;IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center;IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center;IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Micro
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Proposals have focused on reducing energy requirements for large-scale computing facilities (LSCFs), but little research has addressed the need for energy-usage-based accounting. Energy-aware accounting and billing benefits LSCF owners and users. This article makes a case for accurate cost accounting and billing, which accounts for user-specific energy usage, and identifies the hardware- and software-level changes necessary to support energy-aware accounting.