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Thermal-aware workload distribution is a common approach in the literature for power consumption optimization in data centers. However, data centers also have other operational costs such as the cost of equipment maintenance and…

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This study proposes a scalable Digital Twin framework for energy optimization in data centers.The framework integrates IoT-based data acquisition, cloud computing, and machine learning techniques to enable real-time monitoring, forecasting,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Raphael Hendrigo de Souza Gonçalves , Wendel Marcos dos Santos

At global scale, data-center electricity demand is growing faster than the grids that supply it, while system operators increasingly require large flexible loads that can adjust power within seconds to absorb variable wind and solar…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Denisa-Andreea Constantinescu , David Atienza

Power grid frequency control is a demanding task requiring expensive idle power plants to adapt the supply to the fluctuating demand. An alternative approach is controlling the demand side in such a way that certain appliances modify their…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-08-09 E. B. Tchawou Tchuisseu , D. Gomila , D. Brunner , P. Colet

Successful deployment of smart grids necessitates experimental validities of their state-of-the-art designs in two-way communications, real-time demand response and monitoring of consumers' energy usage behavior. The objective is to observe…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-03-23 Wayes Tushar , Chau Yuen , Bo Chai , Shisheng Huang , Kristin L. Wood , See Gim Kerk , Zaiyue Yang

To reduce datacenter energy consumption and cost, current practice has considered demand-proportional resource provisioning schemes, where servers are turned on/off according to the load of requests. Most existing work considers…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-08-30 Dan Xu , Xin Liu

This paper investigates the dynamic interactions between large-scale data centers and the power grid, focusing on reliability challenges arising from sudden fluctuations in demand. With the rapid growth of AI-driven workloads, such…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-30 Kyung-Bin Kwon , Sayak Mukherjee , Veronica Adetola

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

Wider adoption of the Grid concept has led to an increasing amount of federated computational, storage and visualisation resources being available to scientists and researchers. Distributed and heterogeneous nature of these resources…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-11-05 Aleksandar Lazarevic , Lionel Sacks , Ognjen Prnjat

The rapid growth of hyperscale data centers driven by Large Language Models and Artificial Intelligence workloads has introduced new challenges for power systems. These facilities experience abrupt power variations during model training and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Yousef Abudyak , Mohsen Alizadeh , Wei Sun

We propose in this paper to study the energy-, thermal- and performance-aware resource management in heterogeneous datacenters. Witnessing the continuous development of heterogeneity in datacenters, we are confronted with their different…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-10-14 Hongyang Sun , Patricia Stolf , Jean-Marc Pierson , Georges Da Costa

A fundamental challenge in large-scale cloud networks and data centers is to achieve highly efficient server utilization and limit energy consumption, while providing excellent user-perceived performance in the presence of uncertain and…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-06-23 Debankur Mukherjee , Souvik Dhara , Sem Borst , Johan S. H. van Leeuwaarden

Datacenter capacity is growing exponentially to satisfy the increasing demand for emerging computationally-intensive applications, such as deep learning. This trend has led to concerns over datacenters' increasing energy consumption and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Xiaoding Guan , Noman Bashir , David Irwin , Prashant Shenoy

In the rapidly evolving digital era, comprehending the intricate dynamics influencing server power consumption, efficiency, and performance is crucial for sustainable data center operations. However, existing models lack the ability to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Nuoa Lei , Arman Shehabi , Jun Lu , Zhi Cao , Jonathan Koomey , Sarah Smith , Eric Masanet

The continuous increase in performance requirements, for both scientific computation and industry, motivates the need of a powerful computing infrastructure. The Grid appeared as a solution for inexpensive execution of heavy applications in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-10-05 Anolan Milanés , Noemi Rodriguez , Bruno Schulze

Demand for AI accelerators is rapidly increasing rack power density, with projections approaching 1MW per deployment by 2027. This poses a major challenge for datacenter power delivery designers. As power densities increase, a datacenter…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Grant Wilkins , Fiodar Kazhamiaka , Alok Gautam Kumbhare , Chaojie Zhang , Ricardo Bianchini

The smart power grid aims at harnessing information and communication technologies to enhance reliability and enforce sensible use of energy. Its realization is geared by the fundamental goal of effective management of demand load. In this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-08-24 Iordanis Koutsopoulos , Leandros Tassiulas

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

The demand for computer in our daily lives has led to the proliferation of Datacenters that power indispensable many services. On the other hand, computing has become essential for some research for various scientific fields, that require…

Recent increase in energy prices has led researchers to find better ways for capacity provisioning in data centers to reduce energy wastage due to the variation in workload. This paper explores the opportunity for cost saving utilizing the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Muhammad Abdullah Adnan , Ryo Sugihara , Yan Ma , Rajesh Gupta