Energy efficient resource allocation for heterogeneous cloud workloads

Although cloud computing is now becoming more advanced and matured as many companies have released their own computing platforms to provide services to public, but the research on cloud computing is still in its infancy. Apart from many other challenges of cloud computing, efficient management of energy is one of the most challenging research issues. In this paper we review the existing algorithm of dynamic resource provisioning and allocation algorithms and holistically work to boost data center energy efficiency and performance. This particular paper purposes a) heterogeneous workload and its implication on data center´s energy efficiency b) solving the problem of VM resource scheduling to cloud applications.