A case for virtualizing the electric utility in cloud data centers

6th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing, HotCloud 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Wang, Cheng ^a   Urgaonkar, Bhuvan ^a   Kesidis, George ^a   Shanbhag, Uday V ^a   Wang, Qian ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; COST EFFECTIVENESS; COSTS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ENERGY UTILIZATION;

CLOUD DATA CENTERS; CLOUD PROVIDERS; DATA CENTERS; ENERGY-RELATED COSTS; OVERALL COSTS; PRICING SCHEME; TIME VARYING;

GREEN COMPUTING;

EID: 85084164552     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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