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Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Vol. 28 No. 6, pp. 1073-1090


Dynamic Frequency Scaling Schemes for Heterogeneous Clusters under Quality of Service Requirements


JIAN-JIA CHEN1, KAI HUANG2 AND LOTHAR THIELE3
1Department of Informatics 
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology 
76131 Karlsruhe, Germany 
E-mail: j.chen@kit.edu 
2Department of Informatics 
Technical University of Munich 
80333 Munich, Germany 
E-mail: kai.huang@tum.de 
3Computer Engineering Group 
ETH Zurich 
8092 Zurich, Switzerland 
E-mail: thiele@tik.ee.ethz.ch


    Nowadays, both the performance and power consumption for modern server clusters and data centers must be considered to reduce the maintenance cost for quality of service guarantees, as power dissipation affects the cost of both the power delivery subsystems and colling facility. Considering the popularity of heterogeneous clusters, this paper proposes efficient and effective power management schemes for large scale server farms. Distinct from existing heuristic approaches, we propose dynamic frequency scaling schemes with approximation factor guarantees, compared to the optimal power management. By considering systems with discrete frequency levels on every server, our schemes can be applied for different power consumption models. Our greedy power management schemes have 1.5 or 2 approximation guarantees depending on the complexity. Our dynamic-programming approach can trade the quality, in terms of power consumption, of the resulting solutions with the time/space complexity. We provide extensive simulation results to show that the proposed schemes are effective for the minimization of the power consumption for large scale clusters.


Keywords: power management, soft real-time systems, dynamic voltage scaling

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