SEATS: smart energy-aware task scheduling in real-time cloud computing.

Mitigating energy consumption in Clouds reduces operational costs for providers. Power management policies which aim to reduce total energy consumed in data-centers pose challenges in both hardware technologies and resource management policies. We introduce an optimal utilization level of a host to execute a certain number of instructions to minimize energy consumption of the host. We also propose a virtual machine (VM) scheduling algorithm based on the unsurpassed utilization level to come up with optimal energy consumption while meeting a given QoS. In other words, our proposed algorithm regulates allocated computing resources of VMs on a host which results in reaching an optimal energy level in the host. The simulation results show that our proposed method not only reduces total energy consumption of a Cloud by 60 %, but also has a profound impact on turnaround times of real-time tasks by 94 %. It also increases the acceptance rate of arrival tasks by 96 %. Moreover, it takes a leading part in accepting lengthy tasks which have short deadlines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]