Analysis of power-saving techniques over a large multi-use cluster with variable workload

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 25, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 2501-2522

  McGough, Andrew Stephen ^a   Forshaw, Matthew ^a   Gerrard, Clive ^a   Robinson, Paul ^b   Wheater, Stuart ^c  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b RED HAT   (United States)

^c ARJUNA TECHNOLOGIES LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cluster; energy; policy; simulation

Indexed keywords

PUBLIC POLICY; USER EXPERIENCE;

CLUSTER; CLUSTER POLICY; ENERGY; HIGH THROUGHPUT; HIGH-THROUGHPUT COMPUTING; SIMULATION; TRACE DRIVEN SIMULATION; USERS' EXPERIENCES;

GREEN COMPUTING;

EID: 84888645507     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.3082     Document Type: Review

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