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Efficient resource utilization and perfect user experience usually conflict with each other in cloud computing platforms. Great efforts have been invested in increasing resource utilization but trying not to affect users' experience for…

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In this paper, we design an analytically and experimentally better online energy and job scheduling algorithm with the objective of maximizing net profit for a service provider in green data centers. We first study the previously known…

Performance · Computer Science 2014-04-22 Huangxin Wang , Jean X. Zhang , Fei Li

With the rise in data centre virtualization, there are increasing choices as to where to place workloads, be it in web applications, Enterprise IT or in Network Function Virtualisation. Workload placement approaches available today…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Ruoyang Xiu , John Evans

Power consumption is a dominant and still growing cost factor in data centers. In time periods with low load, the energy consumption can be reduced by powering down unused servers. We resort to a model introduced by Lin, Wierman, Andrew and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Susanne Albers , Jens Quedenfeld

Efficiently exploiting the resources of data centers is a complex task that requires efficient and reliable load balancing and resource allocation algorithms. The former are in charge of assigning jobs to servers upon their arrival in the…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Céline Comte

The critical need for clean and economical sources of energy is transforming data centers that are primarily energy consumers to also energy producers. We focus on minimizing the operating costs of next-generation data centers that can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-19 Jinlong Tu , Lian Lu , Minghua Chen , Ramesh K. Sitaraman

Multi-server jobs are imperative in modern cloud computing systems. A noteworthy feature of multi-server jobs is that, they usually request multiple computing devices simultaneously for their execution. How to schedule multi-server jobs…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Hailiang Zhao , Shuiguang Deng , Feiyi Chen , Jianwei Yin , Schahram Dustdar , Albert Y. Zomaya

We consider a computation offloading system where jobs are processed sequentially at a local server followed by a higher-capacity cloud server. The system offers two service modes, differing in how the processing is split between the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Darin Jeff , Eytan Modiano

Cloud data centers face increasing pressure to reduce operational energy consumption as big data workloads continue to grow in scale and complexity. This paper presents a workload aware and energy efficient scheduling framework that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Milan Parikh , Aniket Abhishek Soni , Sneja Mitinbhai Shah , Ayush Raj Jha

In this paper, a real time implementable load coordination strategy is developed for the optimization of electric demands in a smart home. The strategy minimizes the electricity cost to the home owner, while limiting the disruptions…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-30 Xiaoling Chen , Cory Miller , Mithun Goutham , Prasad Dev Hanumalagutti , Rachel Blaser , Stephanie Stockar

Workload consolidation, sharing physical resources among multiple workloads, is a promising technique to save cost and energy in cluster computing systems. This paper highlights a few challenges of workload consolidation for Hadoop as one…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Reza Moraveji , Javid Taheri , MohammadReza HosseinyFarahabady , Nikzad Babaii Rizvandi , Albert Y. Zomaya

With the advancement of Cloud Computing over the past few years, there has been a massive shift from traditional data centers to cloud enabled data centers. The enterprises with cloud data centers are focusing their attention on energy…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Radheshyam Nanduri , Dharmesh Kakadia , Vasudeva Varma

Energy efficiency has become an important measurement of scheduling algorithms in virtualized data centers. One of the challenges of energy-efficient scheduling algorithms, however, is the trade-off between minimizing energy consumption and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-10-30 Nguyen Quang-Hung , Nam Thoai , Nguyen Thanh Son , Duy-Khanh Le

Emerging reconfigurable datacenters allow to dynamically adjust the network topology in a demand-aware manner. These datacenters rely on optical switches which can be reconfigured to provide direct connectivity between racks, in the form of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Kathrin Hanauer , Monika Henzinger , Lara Ost , Stefan Schmid

Data centers are significant contributors to carbon emissions and can strain power systems due to their high electricity consumption. To mitigate this impact and to participate in demand response programs, cloud computing companies strive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-29 Sophie Hall , Francesco Micheli , Giuseppe Belgioioso , Ana Radovanović , Florian Dörfler

Nowadays, data-centers are largely under-utilized because resource allocation is based on reservation mechanisms which ignore actual resource utilization. Indeed, it is common to reserve resources for peak demand, which may occur only for a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Francesco Pace , Dimitrios Milios , Damiano Carra , Daniele Venzano , Pietro Michiardi

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in both latency-sensitive online services and cost-sensitive offline workloads. Co-locating these workloads on shared serving instances can improve resource utilization, but directly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Siyu Wu , Zihan Tang , Yuting Zeng , Hui Chen , Guiguang Ding , Tongxuan Liu , Ke Zhang , Hailong Yang

Queues with setup time are extensively studied because they have application in performance evaluation of power-saving data centers. In a data center, there are a huge number of servers which consume a large amount of energy. In the current…

Performance · Computer Science 2015-12-15 Tuan Phung-Duc

This paper introduces Dodoor, an efficient randomized decentralized scheduler designed for task scheduling in modern data centers. Dodoor leverages advanced research on the weighted balls-into-bins model with b-batched setting. Unlike other…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Wei Da , Evangelia Kalyvianaki

In this paper, we address the power-aware scheduling of sporadic constrained-deadline hard real-time tasks using dynamic voltage scaling upon multiprocessor platforms. We propose two distinct algorithms. Our first algorithm is an off-line…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2008-03-10 Vincent Nélis , Joël Goossens , Nicolas Navet , Raymond Devillers , Dragomir Milojevic