Journal article
Renewable-aware geographical load balancing of web applications for sustainable data centers
A Nadjaran Toosi, C Qu, MD de Assunção, R Buyya
Journal of Network and Computer Applications | ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD | Published : 2017
Abstract
The ever-increasing demand for web applications deployed across multiple data centers results in large electricity costs for service providers and significant impact on the environment. This has motivated service providers to move towards more sustainable data centers powered by renewable or green sources of energy, such as solar or wind. However, efficient utilization of green energy to service web applications is a challenging problem due to intermittency and unpredictability of both application workload and renewable energy availability. One possible solution to reduce cost and increase renewable energy utilization is to exploit the spatio-temporal variations in on-site power and grid pow..
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Awarded by Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowship
Awarded by Discovery Project
Funding Acknowledgements
This work was partially supported by Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowship (grant no. FL170100099) and Discovery Project grants (grant no. DP130101378). Experiments presented in this paper were carried out using the Grid'5000 testbed, supported by a scientific interest group hosted by INRIA and including CNRS, RENATER and several Universities as well as other organizations (see https://www.grid5000.fr). Authors would like to thank Adam Wierman from Caltech for his inspiring thoughts on this work and David Margery and Laurent Lefevre from Inria for their technical support of the experiments. They would also like to thank Rodrigo N. Calheiros, the editors of this journal, and three anonymous reviewers for their many helpful comments and suggestions on an earlier version of this article.