Setting energy efficiency goals in data centres: the GAMES approach

Barbara PerniciDip. Elettronica ed InformazionePolitecnico di Milano

Assessment of energy efficiency ◦ Green Performance Indicators (GPIs)

Focus on applications◦ An usage-based approach

Adaptivity to variable conditions

The problem

Indicators measuring the energy-related parameters according to a usage-center perspective

Resources at different levels need to be monitored◦ Infrastructural◦ Application◦ Facility◦ Organizational

What are the GPIs

Map of the GPIs

A. Kipp, T. Jiang, M. G Fugini, I. Salomie, Layered Green Performance Indicators, Future GenerationComp. Syst. 28(2),2012

Considered GPIs

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GPI Measured values

CPU Usage measured directly (%)

Memory Usage measured directly (%)

Storage Usage Disk/file access counters, throughput and capacity usage, disk-used-capacity/W

IOPS IOPS/W, Disk IOP rate, Device IOPS, Disk-throughput/W

Application performance Transactions/Energy, GFLOPs/KWh

Energy measured directly

Response Time (RT) execution time at server (ms),disk response time

Process Time Process time of HPC Application

Consolidationand correlation of GPIs

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Games Contribution to GreenGrid Maturity Model

B. Pernici et al, E2DC workshop. Madrid, May 2012

How to measure

GAMES controllers (1/2)

GAMES controllers (2/2)

Projects goals and further research

Mine and define relationships between GPIs

Study different scenarios◦ HPC◦ E-commerce◦ Both also in clouds

• Mine strategies (short term and long term)

• Evaluate and refine co-design methodology

B. Pernici, Politecnico di Milano

GAMES Project web site: http://www.green-datacenters.eu/Massimo Bertoncini, Barbara Pernici, Ioan Salomie, and Stefan Wesner. GAMES: Green Active Management of Energy in IT Service centres. Caise Forum, Hammamet, Tunisia, June 2010 Preproceedings –Springer LNBIP

Ioan Salomie, Cioara Tudor, Ionut Anghel, Daniel Moldovan, Georgiana Copil and Pierluigi Plebani. An Energy Aware Context Model for Green IT Service Centers. Proc. First International Workshop on Services, Energy, and Ecosystem (SEE 2010) , ICSOC Workshop, San Francisco, Dec. 2010, http://see.ws.dei.polimi.it/, in ICSOC Proceedings, Springer LNCS Series.

C. Cappiello, M. G.Fugini, B. Pernici, P. Plebani, Green Information Systems for Sustainable IT”, in: A. D’Atri, M. Ferrara, G. Joey, F., P. Spagnoletti (Eds.), Information Technology and Innovation Trends, Physica-Verlag, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2011, pp. 153-160

A.Kipp, T. Jiang, J. Liu, D. Khabi, Y. Kovalenko, L. Schubert, M. vor dem Berge, W. Christmann, Approach towards an energy-aware and energy-efficient high performance computing environment, in 2011 IEEE 7th International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing, 2011, pp. 493-499.

C. Cappiello, M.G. Fugini, A. Mello Ferreira, P. Plebani, M. Vitali, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, Business Process Co-Design for Energy-Aware Adaptation, IEEE 7th International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing, August 25-27, 2011, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, http://www.iccp.ro/iccp2011, Special Session: Green Computing, Organized in cooperation with GAMES EU FP7 project

A. Kipp, L. Schubert, J. Liu, T. Jiang, W. Christmann and M. vor dem Berge. Energy Consumption Optimisation in HPC Service Centres, in Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, Grid and Cloud Computing for Engineering, Ajaccio, Corsica, France, April 2011

T. Cioara, I.Anghel, I. Salomie, D.Moldovan, G.Copil, and A. Kipp, Energy Aware Dynamic Resource Consolidation Algorithm for Virtualized Service Centers based on Reinforcement Learning, The 10th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC), July 6-8, 2011

References

A. Kipp, T. Jiang, J. Liu, J. Buchholz, L. Schubert, M. vor dem Berge, W. Christmann, Testbed architecture for generic, energy-aware evaluations and optimisations, in Proceedings of the First International Conference on Advanced Communications and Computation (INFOCOMP 2011), 2011, pp. 103-108.

Tudor Cioara, Ionut Anghel, Ioan Salomie, Daniel Moldovan, Georgiana Copil, Pierluigi Plebani, Dynamic Consolidation Methodology for Optimizing the Energy Consumption in Large Virtualized Service Centers, 3rd Workshop on Software Services: Semantic-based software services, Szczecin, Poland, September 19-21, 2011

A. Kipp, T. Jiang, J. Liu, D. Khabi, Y. Kovalenko, L. Schubert, M. vor dem Berge, W. Christmann, Approach towards an energy-aware and energy-efficient high performance computing environment, in 2011 IEEE 7th International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing, 2011, pp. 493-499.

C.Cappiello, A. Hinostroza, B. Pernici, M. Sami, E. Henis, R. Kat, K. Meth, M. Mura: ADSC: Application-Driven Storage Control for Energy Efficiency, ICT-GLOW2011

I. Anghel, T. Cioara, I. Salomie, et al. - Middleware for Smart Environments Management, International journal of computers communications & control, Volume: 5, Issue: 2, 2010 Pages: 148-159

A. Kipp, T. Jiang, J, Liu, M. G. Fugini, I. Anghel, T. Cioara, D. Moldovan, I. Salomie, Energy-aware provisioning of HPC services through virtualised web services, Book Chapter in Evolutionary Based Solutions for Green Computing, Springer series "Studies in Computational Intelligence" (SCI), 2012

A. Kipp, T. Jiang, J. Liu, M. G. Fugini, M. Vitali, B. Pernici, I. Salomie, Applying Green Metrics to optimise the energy- consumption footprint of IT service centres, to appear in International Journal of Space-Based and Situated Computing, Inderscience Publishers.

M. G. Fugini, J. A. Parejo Maestre, Energy Analysis of Services through Green Metrics: Towards Green Certificates, ICISTM Conf. Grenoble, March 28-30 2012

A. Kipp, T. Jiang, M. G Fugini, I. Salomie, Layered Green Performance Indicators, Future Generation Comp. Syst. 28(2): 478-489 (2012)