Title :
CloudMonitor: Profiling Power Usage
Author :
Smith, James William ; Khajeh-Hosseini, Ali ; Ward, Jonathan Stuart ; Sommerville, Ian
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, UK
Abstract :
In Cloud Computing platforms the addition of hardware monitoring devices to gather power usage data can be impractical or uneconomical due to the large number of machines to be metered. CloudMonitor, a monitoring tool that can generate power models for software-based power estimation, can provide insights to the energy costs of deployments without additional hardware. Accurate power usage data leads to the possibility of Cloud providers creating a separate tariff for power and therefore incentivizing software developers to create energy-efficient applications.
Keywords :
cloud computing; data handling; energy conservation; power aware computing; software engineering; CloudMonitor tool; cloud computing platform; cloud provider; deployment energy cost; energy-efficient application; hardware monitoring device; power usage data gathering; power usage profiling; software developer; software-based power estimation; Cloud computing; Computational modeling; Data models; Hardware; Monitoring; Servers; Cloud computing; cost modelling; energy efficient computing; power metering; resource monitoring;
Conference_Titel :
Cloud Computing (CLOUD), 2012 IEEE 5th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Honolulu, HI
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2892-0
DOI :
10.1109/CLOUD.2012.112
