When users flood in cloud data centers, how to efficiently manage hardware resources and
virtual machines (VMs) in a data center to both lower economical cost and ensure a high …

Recent years have witnessed phenomenal growth in the computational capabilities and
applications of GPUs. However, this trend has also led to a dramatic increase in their power …

Virtual machine placement (VMP) and energy efficiency are significant topics in cloud
computing research. In this paper, evolutionary computing is applied to VMP to minimize the …

The drive for higher performance and energy efficiency in data-centers has influenced
trends toward increased power and cooling requirements in the facilities. Since enterprise …

To program in distributed computing environments such as grids and clouds, workflow is
adopted as an attractive paradigm for its powerful ability in expressing a wide range of …

Workload placement on servers has been traditionally driven by mainly performance
objectives. In this work, we investigate the design, implementation, and evaluation of a …

In a deregulated market, wholesale energy costs and distribution investment costs contribute
significantly to consumers' electricity bills. However, in a low carbon electrical power system …

Energy efficiency and energy-proportional computing have become a central focus in
enterprise server architecture. As thermal and electrical constraints limit system power, and …

The use of High Performance Computing (HPC) in commercial and consumer IT
applications is becoming popular. HPC users need the ability to gain rapid and scalable …

Servers: high-end, multiprocessor systems running commercial workloads, have typically
included extensive cooling systems and resided in custom-built rooms for high-power …