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

fYear

2012

fDate

24-29 June 2012

Firstpage

947

Lastpage

948

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cloud Computing (CLOUD), 2012 IEEE 5th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

2159-6182

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2892-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLOUD.2012.112

Filename

6253603