Title :
Designing and Managing Data centers Powered by Renewable Energy
Author :
Goiri, Inigo ; Katsak, William ; Kien Le ; Nguyen, T.D. ; Bianchini, R.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ, USA
Abstract :
On-site renewable energy has the potential to reduce datacenters´ carbon footprint and power and energy costs. The authors built Parasol, a solar-powered datacenter, and GreenSwitch, a system for scheduling workloads, to explore this potential in a controlled research setting.
Keywords :
computer centres; cost reduction; energy conservation; power aware computing; solar power; GreenSwitch; Parasol; datacenter carbon footprint reduction; energy cost reduction; on-site renewable energy; power reduction; solar-powered datacenter; workload scheduling system; Batteries; Computer architecture; Computer science; Data centers; Green products; Renewable energy sources; Solar energy; Batteries; Computer architecture; Computer science; Data centers; Green products; GreenSwitch; Parasol; Renewable energy sources; Solar energy; batteries; datacenters; distributed systems; green computing; renewable energy; scheduling;
Journal_Title :
Micro, IEEE
