TOWARDS ENERGY AWARE RESERVATION INFRASTRUCTURE FOR LARGE-SCALE EXPERIMENTAL DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
2009; World Scientific; Volume: 19; Issue: 03 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1142/s0129626409000316
ISSN1793-642X
AutoresLaurent Lefèvre, Anne‐Cécile Orgerie,
Tópico(s)Caching and Content Delivery
ResumoWhile an extensive set of research projects deal with the issue of power-saving for battery-based electronic devices, few have an interest in permanently-plugged Large-Scale Experimental Distributed Systems (LSEDS). However, a rapid study shows that each computer, member of a distributed system platform, consumes a substantial quantity of power, especially when those resources are idle. Today, given the number of processing resources involved in large-scale computing infrastructures, we are convinced that we can save a lot of electric power by proposing and applying "green policies". Introduced in this article, those policies propose to alternatively switch computer nodes On and Off in a clever way. Based on the analysis of some experimental large-scale system's usage, we propose a resource-reservation infrastructure which takes the energy issue into account. We validate our infrastructure on the large-scale experimental Grid'5000 a platform and present the energy gains obtained.
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