Renewable and cooling aware workload management for sustainable data centers

Performance Evaluation Review

Volumn 40, Issue 1 SPEC. ISS., 2012, Pages 175-186

  Liu, Zhenhua ^a   Chen, Yuan ^b   Bash, Cullen ^b   Wierman, Adam ^a   Gmach, Daniel ^b   Wang, Zhikui ^b   Marwah, Manish ^b   Hyser, Chris ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

cooling optimization; demand shaping; renewable energy; scheduling; sustainable data center

Indexed keywords

AIR COOLING; COOLING EFFICIENCY; COOLING EQUIPMENT; COOLING OPTIMIZATION; DATA CENTER OPERATIONS; DATA CENTERS; DEMAND SHAPING; DYNAMIC PRICING; ELECTRICITY COSTS; ENERGY FLOW; HOLISTIC APPROACH; IT EQUIPMENT; IT RESOURCES; NON-RENEWABLE ENERGY; POWER COSTS; POWER INFRASTRUCTURES; POWER SUPPLY; PRODUCTION SYSTEM; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS; TIME VARYING; TOTAL ENERGY; WORKLOAD MANAGEMENT; WORKLOAD PLANNING;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COOLING; COST REDUCTION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; OPTIMIZATION; SCHEDULING;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84864700984     PISSN: 01635999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2254756.2254779     Document Type: Conference Paper

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