Reactive power management for distributed systems

  • Authors:
  • Karl Smith;Michael Galloway;Susan Vrbsky

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Alabama;University of Alabama;University of Alabama

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 49th Annual Southeast Regional Conference
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Distributed computing allows users to better utilize and share resources. Having this advantage currently requires a large amount of energy. In this paper we propose a solution for reducing power consumption in distributed computing, called Limited Reactive Power Management (LRPM). By monitoring the current usage of nodes, our solution will power down unnecessary nodes to conserve energy. This allows for power savings with minimal impact on performance. The overall goal is to obtain a lower energy consumption requirement by various distributed systems without sacrificing computing performance.