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To meet the increasing demand for cloud computing services, the scale and number of data centers keeps increasing worldwide. This growth comes at the cost of increased electricity consumption, which directly correlates to CO2 emissions, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Matteo Zanotto , Leonardo Vicentini , Redi Vreto , Francesco Lumpp , Diego Braga , Sandro Fiore

Cloud platforms' growing energy demand and carbon emissions are raising concern about their environmental sustainability. The current approach to enabling sustainable clouds focuses on improving energy-efficiency and purchasing carbon…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Noman Bashir , Tian Guo , Mohammad Hajiesmaili , David Irwin , Prashant Shenoy , Ramesh Sitaraman , Abel Souza , Adam Wierman

Cloud Computing is a paradigm of both parallel processing and distributed computing. It offers computing facilities as a utility service in pay as par use manner. Virtualization, self service provisioning, elasticity and pay per use are the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Syed Arshad Ali , Mansaf Alam

Saving energy is an important issue for cloud providers to reduce energy cost in a data center. With the increasing popularity of cloud computing, it is time to examine various energy reduction methods for which energy consumption could be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-21 Nasrin Akhter , Mohamed Othman , Ranesh Kumar Naha

Major innovations in computing have been driven by scaling up computing infrastructure, while aggressively optimizing operating costs. The result is a network of worldwide datacenters that consume a large amount of energy, mostly in an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Walid A. Hanafy , Roozbeh Bostandoost , Noman Bashir , David Irwin , Mohammad Hajiesmaili , Prashant Shenoy

Data centers (DCs) are emerging as large, geographically distributed, controllable loads whose participation in electricity markets can significantly affect grid operation, especially when cloud platforms shift workloads across sites to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Shijie Pan , Zaint A. Alexakis , Charalambos Konstantinou

Cloud computing can be defined as the outsourcing / renting of resources over the network. It has been regarded as an essential utility similar to electricity, water, telephone and sewerage utilities. Over the years, a number of providers…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Noman Islam , Zeeshan Islam

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

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

The rising share of abundant renewable energy inevitably increases volatility in the electricity production. The concept of sector coupling means that the volatility of electricity production to a large degree can be absorbed by dispatching…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-29 P. Bechtle , O. Freyermuth , M. Geffers , M. Giffels , M. Hübner , F. Kirfel , J. Kreutz , S. Krieg , S. Matberg , M. Schnepf

Cooperative cloud providers in the form of cloud federations can potentially reduce their energy costs by exploiting electricity price fluctuations across different locations. In this environment, on the one hand, the electricity price has…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Monireh Mohebbi Moghaddam , Mohammad Hossein Manshaei , Mehdi Naderi Soorki , Walid Saad , Maziar Goudarzi , Dusit Niyato

The overall performance of the development of computing systems has been engrossed on enhancing demand from the client and enterprise domains. but, the intake of ever-increasing energy for computing systems has commenced to bound in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Syed Arshad Ali , Mohammad Affan , Mansaf Alam

As a critical component of modern infrastructure, data centers account for a huge amount of power consumption and greenhouse gas emission. This paper studies the electricity purchase strategy for a data center to lower its energy cost while…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-01 Kekun Gao , Yuejun Yan , Yixuan Liu , Endong Liu , Pengcheng You

We study online resource allocation in a cloud computing platform, through a posted pricing mechanism: The cloud provider publishes a unit price for each resource type, which may vary over time; upon arrival at the cloud system, a cloud…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Zijun Zhang , Zongpeng Li , Chuan Wu

Cloud computing has reached significant maturity from a systems perspective, but currently deployed solutions rely on rather basic economics mechanisms that yield suboptimal allocation of the costly hardware resources. In this paper we…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Moshe Babaioff , Yishay Mansour , Noam Nisan , Gali Noti , Carlo Curino , Nar Ganapathy , Ishai Menache , Omer Reingold , Moshe Tennenholtz , Erez Timnat

Major cloud providers such as Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Amazon rely heavily on datacenters to support the ever-increasing demand for their computational and application services. However, the financial and carbon footprint related…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Rajkumar Buyya , Sukhpal Singh Gill

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

Managing energy efficiency under timing constraints is an interesting and big challenge. This work proposes an accurate power model in data centers for time-constrained servers in Cloud computing. This model, as opposed to previous…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Teresa Higuera , José L. Risco-Martín , Patricia Arroba , José L. Ayala

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

The amount of CO$_2$ emitted per kilowatt-hour on an electricity grid varies by time of day and substantially varies by location due to the types of generation. Networked collections of warehouse scale computers, sometimes called Hyperscale…