1. Drowsy-DC: Data center power management system
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Daniel Hagimont, Willy Zwaenepoel, Grégoire Todeschi, Mathieu Bacou, Baptiste Lepers, Alain Tchana, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - CNRS (FRANCE), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - EPFL (SWITZERLAND), Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse - Toulouse INP (FRANCE), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier - UT3 (FRANCE), Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès - UT2J (FRANCE), Université Toulouse 1 Capitole - UT1 (FRANCE), Système d’exploitation, systèmes répartis, de l’intergiciel à l’architecture (IRIT-SEPIA), Institut de recherche en informatique de Toulouse (IRIT), Université Toulouse 1 Capitole (UT1), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Toulouse 1 Capitole (UT1), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
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[INFO.INFO-AR]Computer Science [cs]/Hardware Architecture [cs.AR] ,Long lived mostly idle ,Computer science ,Système d'exploitation ,Réseaux et télécommunications ,02 engineering and technology ,computer.software_genre ,[INFO.INFO-NI]Computer Science [cs]/Networking and Internet Architecture [cs.NI] ,Idle ,low-power state ,Architectures Matérielles ,Virtualization ,long-lived mostly idle ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Overhead (computing) ,Power management system ,business.industry ,power consumption ,020206 networking & telecommunications ,020207 software engineering ,Energy consumption ,virtualization ,Systèmes embarqués ,Low power state ,Virtual machine ,Power consumption ,Operating system ,[INFO.INFO-ES]Computer Science [cs]/Embedded Systems ,Data center ,[INFO.INFO-OS]Computer Science [cs]/Operating Systems [cs.OS] ,business ,consolidation ,computer ,Consolidation ,Efficient energy use - Abstract
National audience; In a modern data center (DC), a large majority of costs arise from energy consumption. The most popular technique used to mitigate this issue is virtualization and more precisely virtual machine (VM) consolidation. Although consolidation may increase server usage by about 5-10%, it is difficult to actually witness server loads greater than 50%. By analyzing the traces from our cloud provider partner, confirmed by previous research work, we have identified that some VMs have sporadic moments of data computation followed by large periods of idleness. These VMs often hinder the consolidation system which cannot further increase the energy efficiency of the DC. In this paper we propose a novel DC power management system called Drowsy-DC, which is able to identify the aforementioned VMs which have matching patterns of idleness. These VMs can thus be colocated on the same server so that their idle periods are exploited to put the server to a low power mode (suspend to RAM) until some data computation is required. While introducing a negligible overhead, our system is able to significantly improve any VM consolidation system; evaluations showed improvements up to 81% and more when compared to OpenStack Neat.
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- 2019