Title :
Energy-Aware Accounting and Billing in Large-Scale Computing Facilities
Author :
Jiménez, Víctor ; Gioiosa, Roberto ; Cazorla, Francisco J. ; Valero, Mateo ; Kursun, Eren ; Isci, Canturk ; Buyuktosunoglu, Alper ; Bose, Pradip
Abstract :
Proposals have focused on reducing energy requirements for large-scale computing facilities (LSCFs), but little research has addressed the need for energy-usage-based accounting. Energy-aware accounting and billing benefits LSCF owners and users. This article makes a case for accurate cost accounting and billing, which accounts for user-specific energy usage, and identifies the hardware- and software-level changes necessary to support energy-aware accounting.
Keywords :
cost accounting; energy conservation; invoicing; cost accounting; energy requirements; energy-aware accounting; energy-aware billing; large-scale computing facilities; Cooling; Energy consumption; Hardware; Power demand; Resource management; Servers; Virtual machining; Energy-aware systems; computer systems organization; emerging technologies; hardware; hardware/software interfaces; power management;
Journal_Title :
Micro, IEEE
