Electric grid balancing through low-cost workload migration

Performance Evaluation Review

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 48-52

  Chiu, David ^a   Stewart, Christopher ^b   McManus, Bart ^c  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Data centers; Demand response; Smart grid

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL WORKLOAD; DATA CENTERS; DEMAND RESPONSE; INFRASTRUCTURE COSTS; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SERVICE DISRUPTIONS; SMART GRID; SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP;

CARBON FOOTPRINT; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION;

COSTS;

EID: 84883468036     PISSN: 01635999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2425248.2425259     Document Type: Article

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