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Green-Up: under-provisioning power backup infrastructure for green datacenters

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Power backup infrastructure is indispensable but its cost exceeds 20% of the whole power infrastructure expenditure of a traditional datacenter. Under-provisioning the power backup infrastructure has therefore been proposed to reduce the backup cost while still keep power available during grid power outages. However, how to under-provision the power backup facility for a green datacenter using renewable energy has not yet been explored. This paper proposes an approach to under-provision the power backup infrastructure as well as optimize the performance of individual applications with the presence of renewable energy, named Green-Up. It contributes two novel techniques: power source and power load managements. Power source management identifies the suitable power source for power backup whereas power load management selects the best power capping techniques for under-provisioning power backup infrastructure. In addition, we build hierarchical Bayesian Models to optimize power consumption and performance. To evaluate Green-Up, we build an experimental cluster consisting of 10 servers with a simulated solar power generator, and use four representative datacenter benchmarks. The experimental results demonstrate that our theoretical solutions provide a seamless bridge across the whole spectrum of renewable power availability and durations of grid power outages.

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Zhou, X., Yu, Z. Green-Up: under-provisioning power backup infrastructure for green datacenters. CCF Trans. HPC 1, 209–223 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42514-019-00016-6

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