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Scale-out workloads like media streaming or Web search serve millions of users and operate on a massive amount of data, and hence, require enormous computational power. As the number of users is increasing and the size of data is expanding,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Pouya Esmaili-Dokht , Mohammad Bakhshalipour , Behnam Khodabandeloo , Pejman Lotfi-Kamran , Hamid Sarbazi-Azad

In ours days data centers provide the global community an indispensable service: nearly unlimited access to almost any kind of information we can imagine by supporting most Internet services such as: Web hosting and E-commerce services.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-05-28 Iulia Dumitru , Grigore Stamatescu , Ioana Fagarasan , Sergiu Stelian Iliescu

The rapid expansion of cloud computing and data center infrastructure has led to significant energy consumption, posing environmental challenges due to the growing carbon footprint. This research explores energy-aware management strategies…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Rabab Khan Rongon , Krishna Das

The energy consumption of computer and communication systems does not scale linearly with the workload. A system uses a significant amount of energy even when idle or lightly loaded. A widely reported solution to resource management in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-01-13 Ashkan Paya , Dan C. Marinescu

Wireless charging coupled with computation offloading in edge networks offers a promising solution for realizing power-hungry and computation intensive applications on user devices. We consider a multi-access edge computing (MEC) system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-14 Rafia Malik , Mai Vu

The significant presence of demand charges in electric bills motivates large-load customers to utilize energy storage to reduce the peak procurement from the grid. We herein study the problem of energy storage allocation for peak…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Yanfang Mo , Qiulin Lin , Minghua Chen , Si-Zhao Joe Qin

The recent growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly large language models, requires energy-demanding high-performance computing (HPC) data centers, which poses a significant burden on power system capacity. Scheduling data…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Yihong Zhou , Angel Paredes , Chaimaa Essayeh , Thomas Morstyn

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

As users migrate their analytical workloads to cloud databases, it is becoming just as important to reduce monetary costs as it is to optimize query runtime. In the cloud, a query is billed based on either its compute time or the amount of…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Tapan Srivastava , Raul Castro Fernandez

This paper examines the workload distribution challenges in centralized cloud systems and demonstrates how Hybrid Edge Cloud (HEC) [1] mitigates these inefficiencies. Workloads in cloud environments often follow a Pareto distribution, where…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Siavash Alamouti

Industries are considering the adoption of cloud and edge computing for real-time applications due to current improvements in network latencies and the advent of Fog and Edge computing. Current cloud paradigms are not designed for real-time…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Isser Kadusale , Gautam Gala , Gerhard Fohler

The energy footprint of global data movement has surpassed 100 terawatt hours, costing more than 20 billion US dollars to the world economy. Depending on the number of switches, routers, and hubs between the source and destination nodes,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Luigi Di Tacchio , Zulkar Nine , Tevfik Kosar , Fatih M. Bulut , Jinho Hwang

Data centers have emerged as promising resources for demand response, particularly for emergency demand response (EDR), which saves the power grid from incurring blackouts during emergency situations. However, currently, data centers…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-29 Niangjun Chen , Xiaoqi Ren , Shaolei Ren , Adam Wierman

The evolution of high-performance computing is associated with the growth of energy consumption. Performance of cluster computes (is increased via rising in performance and the number of used processors, GPUs, and coprocessors. An increment…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-23 E. A. Kiselev , P. N. Telegin , B. M. Shabanov

Data centers are giant factories of Internet data and services. Worldwide data centers consume energy and emit emissions more than airline industry. Unfortunately, most of data centers are significantly underutilized. One of the major…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Tan N. Le , Zhenhua Liu

At present, a major concern regarding data centers is their extremely high energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions. However, because of the over-provisioning of resources, the utilization of existing data centers is, in fact,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Xibo Jin , Fa Zhang , Athanasios V. Vasilakos , Zhiyong Liu

The cloud computing technology uses datacenters, which require energy. Recent trends show that the required energy for these datacenters will rise over time, or at least remain constant. Hence, the scientific community developed different…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Benedikt Pittl , Werner Mach , Erich Schikuta

Demand response is a crucial technology to allow large-scale penetration of intermittent renewable energy sources in the electric grid. This paper is based on the thesis that datacenters represent especially attractive candidates for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-30 Josiah McClurg , Raghuraman Mudumbai

Cloud computing is offering utility-oriented IT services to users worldwide. Based on a pay-as-you-go model, it enables hosting of pervasive applications from consumer, scientific, and business domains. However, data centers hosting Cloud…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-06-03 Rajkumar Buyya , Anton Beloglazov , Jemal Abawajy

In this paper, we consider energy demand prediction in district heating systems. Effective energy demand prediction is essential in combined heat power systems when offering electrical energy in competitive electricity markets. To address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Witold Andrzejewski , Jedrzej Potoniec , Maciej Drozdowski , Jerzy Stefanowski , Robert Wrembel , Paweł Stapf