Energy-efficient Assignment of Applications to Servers by Taking into Account the Influence of Processes on Each Other

Proceedings of: Third International Workshop on Sustainable Ultrascale Computing Systems (NESUS 2016). Sofia (Bulgaria), October, 6-7, 2016. The power consumption of data centers is becoming a crucial challenge in the context of the steadily increasing demand for computation. In this regard finding a way to improve energy efficiency of running applications in data centers is becoming a crucial trend. One method to improve the processor utilization is the consolidation of applications on physical servers. It is possible to run multiple jobs in parallel on the same machine, especially when their requirements regarding computation are smaller than the maximum processor performance. It reduces the number of servers in the data center required to handle multiple requests and therefore leads to energy usage reductions. In this paper, we introduce a realistic model of applications with deadlines executed in parallel on a server and competing for the shared resources and present an energy-aware algorithm which may be used to minimize the overall energy consumption of the servers. European Community's Seventh Framework Program This work is partially supported by EU under the COST Program Action 1305: Network for Sustainable Ultrascale Computing (NESUS). The research presented in this paper is partially funded by a grant from Polish National Science Center under award number 2013/08/A/ST6/00296. This research was supported by the EU Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007–2013 under grant agreement no. FP7-ICT-2013-10 (609757).