Multi-Facet Approach to Reduce Energy Consumption in Clouds and Grids: The GREEN-NET Framework

Georges da Costa (1, 2) , Marcos Dias de Assuncao (3) , Jean-Patrick Gelas (3) , Yiannis Georgiou (4) , Laurent Lefèvre (3) , Anne-Cécile Orgerie (5, 6, 7) , Jean-Marc Pierson (1) , Olivier Richard (8) , Amal Sayah (1)

1 IRIT-SEPIA - Système d’exploitation, systèmes répartis, de l’intergiciel à l’architecture
2 UT3 - Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier
3 RESO - Protocols and softwares for very high-performance network
4 ID-IMAG - Informatique et Distribution
5 LIP - Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallélisme
6 ENS de Lyon - École normale supérieure de Lyon
7 RESO - Protocols and softwares for very high-performance network
8 MESCAL - Middleware efficiently scalable

This paper presents an integrated framework for energy savings in large scale distributed systems such as grids and clouds. The framework comprises tools and mechanisms: to measure and log data about the energy consumed by resources; to present this information to users; to involve the users in decisions to reduce the energy consumed by their applications; and to enforce energy reduction decisions automatically while respecting the users' requirements and achieving the resource availability demanded by current services. Experiments demonstrate the energy savings achieved by the proposed mechanisms and explore trade-offs between energy efficiency and performance degradation.

Keywords: energy-efficiency; grids; power awareness; clouds

Domains: Networking and Internet Architecture [cs.NI]

Georges da Costa, Marcos Dias de Assuncao, Jean-Patrick Gelas, Yiannis Georgiou, Laurent Lefèvre, et al.. Multi-Facet Approach to Reduce Energy Consumption in Clouds and Grids: The GREEN-NET Framework. International Conference on Energy-Efficient Computing and Networking (e-Energy), Apr 2010, Passau, Germany. pp.95-104, ⟨10.1145/1791314.1791329⟩. ⟨ensl-00517185⟩