Energy aware colocation of workload in data centers

摘要

There exists an interference due to colocating applications which depends on the applications' workload types, degrades the performance and affects the energy consumption of applications. We hypothesize the interference energy consumption and model it as “interference coefficient” and use it to develop an application-aware colocation management policy to colocate the applications in data centers. Including the interference effect in simulations using synthetic workload in the colocation management policy results energy savings of up to 8%.