loading...
 This Article 
   
 Share 
   
 Bibliographic References 
   
 Add to: 
 
Digg
Furl
Spurl
Blink
Simpy
Google
Del.icio.us
Y!MyWeb
 
 Search 
   
Fourth International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'07)
Exploiting Platform Heterogeneity for Power Efficient Data Centers
Jacksonville, Florida, USA
June 11-June 15
ISBN: 0-7695-2779-5
Ripal Nathuji, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Canturk Isci, Princeton University, USA
Eugene Gorbatov, Intel Corporation, USA
It has recently become clear that power management is of critical importance in modern enterprise computing environments. The traditional drive for higher performance has influenced trends towards consolidation and higher densities, artifacts enabled by virtualization and new small form factor server blades. The resulting effect has been increased power and cooling requirements in data centers which elevate ownership costs and put more pressure on rack and enclosure densities. To address these issues, in this paper, we enable power-efficient management of enterprise workloads by exploiting a fundamental characteristic of data centers: "platform heterogeneity". This heterogeneity stems from the architectural and management-capability variations of the underlying platforms. We define an intelligent workload allocation method that leverages heterogeneity characteristics and efficiently maps workloads to the best fitting platforms, significantly improving the power efficiency of the whole data center. We perform this allocation by employing a novel analytical prediction layer that accurately predicts workload power/performance across different platform architectures and power management capabilities. This prediction infrastructure relies upon platform and workload descriptors that we define as part of our work. Our allocation scheme achieves on average 20% improvements in power efficiency for representative heterogeneous data center configurations, highlighting the significant potential of heterogeneity-aware management.
Citation:
Ripal Nathuji, Canturk Isci, Eugene Gorbatov, "Exploiting Platform Heterogeneity for Power Efficient Data Centers," icac, pp.5, Fourth International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'07), 2007
Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use.