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Power inefficiency has become a major concern for large scale computing providers. In this paper, we consider the possibility of turning servers on and off to keep a balance between capacity and energy saving. While turning off servers could save power, it could also delay the response time of requests and therefore reduced the performance. Furthermore, as consistency is one of the most important factors for a system, we also analyse the level of consistency in the form of switching rate and fault occurrence. Several heuristic-based switching policies are introduced with a view to balance the cost between power saving, performance and consistency. Simulation results are presented and discussed with requests arriving according to a two-phase Poisson process.
Author(s): Nguyen TH, Forshaw M, Thomas N
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science
Year: 2015
Volume: 318
Pages: 159-177
Print publication date: 25/11/2015
Online publication date: 18/11/2015
Acceptance date: 14/10/2015
Date deposited: 22/01/2016
ISSN (electronic): 1571-0661
Publisher: Elsevier
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.entcs.2015.10.025
DOI: 10.1016/j.entcs.2015.10.025
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