Optimal power allocation in server farms

SIGMETRICS/Performance'09 - Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 157-168

  Gandhi, Anshul ^a   Harchol Balter, Mor ^a   Das, Rajarshi ^b   Lefurgy, Charles ^c  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

^c IBM AUSTIN RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

C.4 performance of systems : Modeling techniques; Experimentation; Measurement; Performance; Theory

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL RATES; EXPERIMENTATION; FREQUENCY CURVE; MAXIMUM POWER; MODELING TECHNIQUE; OPTIMAL POWER ALLOCATION; PERFORMANCE OF SYSTEMS; POWER ALLOCATIONS; POWER BUDGETS; POWER LEVELS; SERVER FARMS; THEORETIC MODEL; THEORETICAL MODELS;

BUDGET CONTROL; EXPERIMENTS; FARMS; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; OPTIMIZATION;

SERVERS;

EID: 70449669119     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1555349.1555368     Document Type: Conference Paper

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