Title: Energy Usage Optimization for Datacenters

Abstract:
The rise of cloud computing has led to large-scale distributed systems that can include hundreds of thousands of servers in datacenters across the world. Even though computers are cheaper more power efficient than ever, rising electricity costs have outpaced savings from efficiency. There have been several approaches to reducing energy usage in datacenters, including improving the efficiency of individual servers to exploiting electricity market dynamics when load balancing. With the deployment of the smart grid, new possibilities are available for reducing electricity costs.
This presentation introduces power demand routing and speed scaling techniques and a framework for testing the effectiveness of these solutions for real-world datacenters.