Energy-aware scheduling based on marginal cost and task classification in heterogeneous data centers

Kaixuan Ji, Ce Chi, Fa Zhang, Antonio Fernández Anta, Penglei Song, Avinab Marahatta, Youshi Wang, Zhiyong Liu*

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Abstract

The energy consumption problem has become a bottleneck hindering further development of data centers. However, the heterogeneity of servers, hybrid cooling modes, and extra energy caused by system state transitions increases the complexity of the energy optimization problem. To deal with such challenges, in this paper, an Energy Aware Task Scheduling strategy (EATS) utilizing marginal cost and task classification method is proposed that cooperatively improves the energy efficiency of servers and cooling systems. An energy consumption model for servers, cooling systems, and state transition is developed, and the energy optimization problem in data centers is formulated. The concept of marginal cost is introduced to guide the task scheduling process. The task classification method is incorporated with the idea of marginal cost to further improve resource utilization and reduce the total energy consumption of data centers. Experiments are conducted using real-world traces, and energy reduction results are compared. Results show that EATS achieves more energy-savings of servers, cooling systems, state transition in comparison to the other two techniques under a various number of servers, cooling modules and task arrival intensities. It is validated that EATS is effective at reducing total energy consumption and improving the resource utilization of data centers.

Original languageEnglish
Article number2382
JournalEnergies
Volume14
Issue number9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 May 2021
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Cooling system
  • Data center
  • Energy-aware
  • Marginal cost
  • Task classification
  • Task scheduling

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