Paper Info
Title
Quantifying the sustainability impact of data center availability
Abstract
Data center availability is critical considering the explosive growth in Internet services and people's dependence on them. Furthermore, in recent years, sustainability has become important. However, data center designers have little information on the sustainability impact of data center availability architectures. In this paper, we present an approach to estimate the sustainability impact of such architectures. Availability is computed using Stochastic Petri Net (SPN) models while an exergy-based lifecycle assessment (LCA) approach is used for quantifying sustainability impact. The approach is demonstrated on real life data center power infrastructure architectures. Five different architectures are considered and initial results show that quantification of sustainability impact provides important information to a data center designer in evaluating availability architecture choices.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1145/1773394.1773405
SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review
Keywords
Field
DocType
real life data center,data center availability architecture,stochastic petri net,data center availability,stochastic petri,availability architecture choice,data center,life-cycle assessment,sustainability impact,quantifying sustainability impact,sustainability,power infrastructure,internet service,important information,data center designer,availability
Architecture,Exergy,Systems engineering,Computer science,Life-cycle assessment,Stochastic Petri net,Data center,Sustainability,Distributed computing,The Internet
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
37
4
16
PageRank 
References 
Authors
3.44
7
12
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Manish Marwah167250.11
Paulo Maciel225830.35
Amip Shah311612.57
Ratnesh Sharma49811.61
Tom Christian58613.69
Virgílio A. F. Almeida62809297.89
Carlos Araújo7779.24
Erica Souza8163.44
Gustavo Callou912416.54
Bruno Silva1012416.86
Sérgio Galdino11163.44
Jose Pires12163.44