How much power oversubscription is safe and allowed in data centers?

Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Autonomic Computing, ICAC 2011 and Co-located Workshops

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 21-30

  Fu, Xing ^a,b   Wang, Xiaorui ^a,b   Lefurgy, Charles ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c IBM AUSTIN RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

circuit breaker; data center; power capping; power oversubscription; power provisioning

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT BREAKER; DATA CENTERS; POWER CAPPING; POWER OVERSUBSCRIPTION; POWER PROVISIONING;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; CIRCUIT BREAKING ARCS; ELECTRIC CIRCUIT BREAKERS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; POWER CONTROL; PROFITABILITY;

SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 79960156122     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1998582.1998589     Document Type: Conference Paper

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