Power and Thermal-Aware Workload Allocation in Heterogeneous Data Centers

• Published in: IEEE transactions on computers Vol. 64; no. 2; pp. 477 - 491
• Main Authors: Al-Qawasmeh, Abdulla M., Pasricha, Sudeep, Maciejewski, Anthony A., Siegel, Howard Jay
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.02.2015; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Allocations; Computer centers; Computer simulation; Cooling; CRAC; data center; Data centers; Heating; heterogeneous computing; Indexes; Mathematical models; Optimization; performance states; Power consumption; Power demand; Resource allocation; Resource management; Servers; Tasks; Thermal-aware; Workload

Many of today's data centers experience physical limitations on the power needed to run the data center. The first problem that we study is maximizing the performance (quantified by the reward collected for completing tasks by their individual deadlines) of a data center that is subject to tota...