Energy-Aware Accounting and Billing in Large-Scale Computing Facilities

Proposals have focused on reducing energy requirements for large-scale computing facilities (LSCFs), but little research has addressed the need for energy-usage-based accounting. Energy-aware accounting and billing benefits LSCF owners and users. This article makes a case for accurate cost accountin...

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Published inIEEE MICRO Vol. 31; no. 3; pp. 60 - 71
Main Authors Jimenez, Victor, Gioiosa, Roberto, Cazorla, Francisco J, Valero, Mateo, Kursun, Eren, Isci, Canturk, Buyuktosunoglu, Alper, Bose, Pradip
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Alamitos IEEE 01.05.2011
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects
Accounting
Accounting systems
Accuracy
Billings
Computation
computer systems organization
Cooling
emerging technologies
Energy consumption
Energy requirements
Energy use
Energy-aware systems
Hardware
hardware/software interfaces
Interfaces
Power demand
power management
Proposals
Resource management
Servers
Surface hardness
Virtual machining
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Summary:Proposals have focused on reducing energy requirements for large-scale computing facilities (LSCFs), but little research has addressed the need for energy-usage-based accounting. Energy-aware accounting and billing benefits LSCF owners and users. This article makes a case for accurate cost accounting and billing, which accounts for user-specific energy usage, and identifies the hardware- and software-level changes necessary to support energy-aware accounting.
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ISSN:0272-1732
1937-4143
DOI:10.1109/MM.2011.35