Title
CPU gradients: Performance-aware energy conservation in multitier systems
Abstract
Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) and virtual machine (VM) based server consolidation are well-known CPU scaling techniques for energy conservation that can have an adverse impact on system performance. For the responsiveness-sensitive multitier applications running in today's data centers, queuing models should ideally be used to predict the impact of CPU scaling on response time, to allow appropriate runtime trade-offs between performance and energy use. In practice, however, such models are difficult to construct and thus are often abandoned for ad-hoc solutions. In this paper, an alternative measurement-based approach that predicts the impact without requiring detailed application knowledge is presented. The approach proposes a new predictive model, the CPU gradient, that can be automatically measured on a running system using lightweight and nonintrusive CPU perturbations. The practical feasibility of the approach is demonstrated using extensive experiments on multiple multitier applications, and it is shown that simple energy controllers can use gradient predictions to derive as much as 50% energy savings while still meeting response time constraints.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/GREENCOMP.2010.5598296
Green Computing Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
cpu scaling,power aware computing,well-known cpu scaling technique,adverse impact,computer centres,queuing model,responsiveness-sensitive multitier application,virtual machine,virtual machines,energy conservation,dynamic voltage scaling,energy saving,low-power electronics,queueing theory,multiprocessing systems,ad-hoc solution,data centers,gradient measurement technique,frequency scaling,cpu gradient,alternative measurement-based approach,nonintrusive cpu perturbation,gradient methods,simple energy controller,performance-aware energy conservation,multitier system,energy use,system performance,data center,low power electronics,prediction model
Dynamic voltage scaling,Energy conservation,Central processing unit,Virtual machine,Computer science,Response time,Real-time computing,Queueing theory,Frequency scaling,Low-power electronics,Distributed computing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4244-7612-1
6
0.53
References 
Authors
15
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shuyi Chen1261.95
Kaustubh R. Joshi250431.09
Matti A. Hiltunen377949.73
Schlichting, R.42234372.48
William H. Sanders52634239.75