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Power-Aware Dynamic Deployment Under CPU Utilization Guarantee for Application Server Cluster

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Application server cluster (cluster for short) is generally designed to handle peak load, resulting in an excessive waste of energy; hence, its deployment should be dynamically adjusted according to changing load. In this paper, we propose a power-aware dynamic deployment scheme for application server cluster, which aims to minimize cluster’s power consumption under given target of CPU utilization guarantee. Firstly, we present an approach to guarantee server’s CPU utilization equal to a given target value through load allocation and Dynamic Frequency Scaling (DFS), deduce the power models of Discrete DFS (D-DFS) and Equivalent Continuous DFS (EC-DFS) manner, and analyze the power and continuity advantages of EC-DFS. Then, combining DFS, server Dynamic Switching On/Off and probability-based request scheduling, we transform cluster’s power-aware dynamic deployment problem to a programming problem, whose variable number is less than other similar researches. Finally, an efficient Differential Evolution-based solving algorithm is proposed to solve the problem. Test results verify the advantages of EC-DFS, and demonstrate the effectiveness of our deployment scheme and solving algorithm.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61202366), the Special Funds for Discipline and Specialty Construction of Guangdong Higher Education Institutions (No. 2016KTSCX040), and the Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province (Nos. 2016B090920095 and 2016B010124012).

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    Zhi Xiong, Qinkun Zhang, Lingru Cai & Weihong Cai

  2. Research Division, Shantou University, 243 Daxue Road, Shantou, Guangdong, China

    Changsheng Zhu

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Xiong, Z., Zhang, Q., Cai, L. et al. Power-Aware Dynamic Deployment Under CPU Utilization Guarantee for Application Server Cluster. Wireless Pers Commun 102, 1485–1502 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-017-5207-y

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