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Setting Energy Efficiency Goals in Data Centers: The GAMES Approach

2012; Springer Science+Business Media; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-642-33645-4_1

1611-3349

Barbara Pernici, Cinzia Cappiello, Mariagrazia Fugini, Pierluigi Plebani, Monica Vitali, Ioan Salomie, Tudor Cioara, Ionuț Anghel, Ealan Henis, Ronen I. Kat, Doron Chen, George Goldberg, Micha vor dem Berge, Wolfgang Christmann, Alexander Kipp, Tao Jiang, Jia Liu, Massimo Bertoncini, Diego Arnone, Alessandro Rossi,

Green IT and Sustainability

Energy-aware service centers take into account energy consumption of infrastructures, machines, applications, storage systems, and their distributed computing architecture. The approach to energy efficiency in data centers in the GAMES (Green Active Management of Energy in IT Service centers) project is presented: Green Performance Indicators (GPIs), i.e., properties that, continuously monitored, evidence the level of consumed energy by the center's IT resources, can be the basis of a systematic approach to increase energy efficiency. The GPIs are the basis for improving energy efficiency with adaptive actions and to achieve a higher level of green maturity, as prescribed, for instance, in the GreenGrid Data Center Maturity Model (DCMM), based on a usage-centric perspective in GPIs. The paper briefly describes monitoring of GPIs and the adaptation actions adopted to reach the green goals. Preliminary experimental results are discussed.