Evaluating scheduling methods for energy cost reduction in a heterogeneous data center environment

ECIS 2012 - Proceedings of the 20th European Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Brandt, Tobias ^a   Bodenstein, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data center scheduling; Genetic algorithm; Green IT; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COST REDUCTION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SCHEDULING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

COMPUTATIONAL SPEED; DATA CENTERS; ENERGY COST REDUCTION; ENERGY-EFFICIENT SCHEDULING; GREEN IT; HETEROGENEOUS DATA CENTERS; IT INFRASTRUCTURES; TOTAL ENERGY CONSUMPTION;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84905748747     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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