Power-saving design in server farms for multi-tier applications under response time constraint

SMARTGREENS 2013 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Smart Grids and Green IT Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 137-148

  Wang, Shengquan ^a   Munawar, Waqaas ^b   Liu, Xue ^c   Chen, Jian Jia ^b  

^a University of Michigan Dearborn   (United States)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

M g 1 ps; Mean value analysis (mva); Multi tier; Power saving; Response time; Server farm; Service level agreement (sla)

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN; QUEUEING THEORY; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); SMART POWER GRIDS; VOLTAGE SCALING;

M/G/1/PS; MEAN VALUE ANALYSIS; MULTI-TIER; POWER SAVINGS; SERVER FARMS; SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS;

GREEN COMPUTING;

EID: 84887711778     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.5220/0004357201370148     Document Type: Conference Paper

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