Title :
GDCSim: A tool for analyzing Green Data Center design and resource management techniques
Author :
Gupta, Sandeep K S ; Gilbert, Rose Robin ; Banerjee, Ayan ; Abbasi, Zahra ; Mukherjee, Tridib ; Varsamopoulos, Georgios
Author_Institution :
Impact Lab., ASU, Tempe, AZ, USA
Abstract :
Energy consumption in data centers can be reduced by efficient design of the data centers and efficient management of computing resources and cooling units. A major obstacle in the analysis of data centers is the lack of a holistic simulator, where the impact of new computing resource (or cooling) management techniques can be tested with different designs (i.e., layouts and configurations) of data centers. To fill this gap, this paper proposes Green Data Center Simulator (GDCSim) for studying the energy efficiency of data centers under various data center geometries, workload characteristics, platform power management schemes, and scheduling algorithms. GDCSim is used to iteratively design green data centers. Further, it is validated against established CFD simulators. GDCSim is developed as a part of the BlueTool infrastructure project at Impact Lab.
Keywords :
computer centres; energy conservation; energy consumption; environmental factors; power aware computing; resource allocation; scheduling; BlueTool infrastructure project; GDCSim; computing resource; data center geometries; energy consumption; energy efficiency; green data center design; green data center simulator; platform power management schemes; resource management technique; scheduling algorithm; workload characteristics; Computational fluid dynamics; Cooling; Data models; Heating; Resource management; Servers; Thermal management; Simulator; data center; energy efficient; green;
Conference_Titel :
Green Computing Conference and Workshops (IGCC), 2011 International
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1222-7
DOI :
10.1109/IGCC.2011.6008612
