Utility-function-driven energy-efficient cooling in data centers

Proceeding of the 7th International Conference on Autonomic Computing, ICAC '10 and Co-located Workshops

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 61-70

  Das, Rajarshi ^a   Kephart, Jeffrey O ^a   Lenchner, Jonathan ^a   Hamann, Hendrik ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

autonomic computing; data center cooling; energy management; utility functions

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMIC COMPUTING; COMPUTER ROOMS; DATA CENTER COOLING; DATA CENTERS; ENERGY AWARE; ENERGY EFFICIENT; ENERGY SAVING; ENERGY SUPPLIES; ENERGY USAGE; IT SYSTEM; JOINT POWER; PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE; SELF MANAGEMENT; SHUT DOWN; UTILITY FUNCTIONS; VARIABLE SPEED;

COOLING; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; REAL VARIABLES; SERVERS;

SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 77954698669     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1809049.1809058     Document Type: Conference Paper

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