Power provisioning for a warehouse-sized computer
Proceedings of the 34th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Experimental study of virtual machine migration in support of reservation of cluster resources
VTDC '07 Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Virtualization technology in distributed computing
Computer Architecture Techniques for Power-Efficiency
Computer Architecture Techniques for Power-Efficiency
PowerNap: eliminating server idle power
Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Optimal power allocation in server farms
Proceedings of the eleventh international joint conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Minimizing data center cooling and server power costs
Proceedings of the 14th ACM/IEEE international symposium on Low power electronics and design
SHIP: Scalable Hierarchical Power Control for Large-Scale Data Centers
PACT '09 Proceedings of the 2009 18th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques
Power routing: dynamic power provisioning in the data center
Proceedings of the fifteenth edition of ASPLOS on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Joint optimization of idle and cooling power in data centers while maintaining response time
Proceedings of the fifteenth edition of ASPLOS on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Virtual machine power metering and provisioning
Proceedings of the 1st ACM symposium on Cloud computing
The impact of management operations on the virtualized datacenter
Proceedings of the 37th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Energy proportional datacenter networks
Proceedings of the 37th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Capping the brown energy consumption of Internet services at low cost
GREENCOMP '10 Proceedings of the International Conference on Green Computing
Blink: managing server clusters on intermittent power
Proceedings of the sixteenth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Greening geographical load balancing
Proceedings of the ACM SIGMETRICS joint international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Benefits and limitations of tapping into stored energy for datacenters
Proceedings of the 38th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
SolarCore: Solar energy driven multi-core architecture power management
HPCA '11 Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE 17th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture
Managing distributed ups energy for effective power capping in data centers
Proceedings of the 39th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture
Yank: enabling green data centers to pull the plug
nsdi'13 Proceedings of the 10th USENIX conference on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
MultiGreen: cost-minimizing multi-source datacenter power supply with online control
Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Future energy systems
Enabling datacenter servers to scale out economically and sustainably
Proceedings of the 46th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture
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Large-scale computing systems such as data centers are facing increasing pressure to cap their carbon footprint. Integrating emerging clean energy solutions into computer system design therefore gains great significance in the green computing era. While some pioneering work on tracking variable power budget show promising energy efficiency, they are not suitable for data centers due to lack of performance guarantee when renewable generation is low and fluctuant. In addition, our characterization of wind power behavior reveals that data centers designed to track the intermittent renewable power incur up to 4X performance loss due to inefficient and redundant load matching activities. As a result, mitigating operational overhead while still maintaining desired energy utilization becomes the most significant challenge in managing server clusters on intermittent renewable energy generation. In this paper we take a first step in digging into the operational overhead of renewable energy powered data center. We propose iSwitch, a lightweight server power management that follows renewable power variation characteristics, leverages existing system infrastructures, and applies supply/load cooperative scheme to mitigate the performance overhead. Comparing with state-of-the-art renewable energy driven system design, iSwitch could mitigate average network traffic by 75%, peak network traffic by 95%, and reduce 80% job waiting time while still maintaining 96% renewable energy utilization. We expect that our work can help computer architects make informed decisions on sustainable and high-performance system design.