Poster: Drowsy-DC, datacenter power management inspired by smartphones

  • Mathieu Bacou
  • , Grégoire Todeschi
  • , Alain Tchana
  • , Daniel Hagimont
  • , Baptiste Lepers
  • , Willy Zwaenepoel

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

Abstract

A lot of research work is put into reducing the power consumption of datacenters. Some works seek to improve the power efficiency of one server, but as of now the ideal state of power proportionality is only approached with a higher workload. Meanwhile, modern datacenters make use of the virtualization: the actual workload is materialized by virtual machines (VM). Thus, the problem shifts to consolidating VMs in order to increase the workload of a server. Roughly described, VM consolidation systems try to place as many VMs as possible, on as few servers as possible. Then, a server either gets a higher workload, bringing it closer to a state of energy proportionality; or hosts no VM and can be brought to sleep. However, industrial solutions are not very efficient, and in practice the number of VMs per server is increased by only 10%, with an effective workload rarely over 50% [3].

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMiddleware 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 Middleware Posters and Demos 2017
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of the Posters and Demos Session of the 18th International Middleware Conference
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages7-8
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)9781450352017
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 11 Dec 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event18th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference, Middleware 2017 - Las Vegas, United States
Duration: 11 Dec 201715 Dec 2017

Publication series

NameMiddleware 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 Middleware Posters and Demos 2017: Proceedings of the Posters and Demos Session of the 18th International Middleware Conference

Conference

Conference18th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference, Middleware 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLas Vegas
Period11/12/1715/12/17

Keywords

  • Consolidation
  • Long-lived mostly idle
  • Low-power state
  • Power consumption
  • Virtualization

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