Magnet: A novel scheduling policy for power reduction in cluster with virtual machines

The concept of green computing has attracted much attention recently in cluster computing. However, previous local approaches focused on saving the energy cost of the components in a single workstation without a global vision on the whole cluster, so it achieved undesirable power reduction effect. O...

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Main Authors: Liting Hu, Jin, Hai, Xiaofei Liao, Xianjie Xiong, Haikun Liu
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
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Magnetic multilayers
Magnetic separation
Power demand
Servers
Virtual machining
Workstations
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Summary:The concept of green computing has attracted much attention recently in cluster computing. However, previous local approaches focused on saving the energy cost of the components in a single workstation without a global vision on the whole cluster, so it achieved undesirable power reduction effect. Other cluster-wide energy saving techniques could only be applied to homogeneous workstations and specific applications. This paper describes the design and implementation of a novel approach that uses live migration of virtual machines to transfer load among the nodes on a multilayer ring-based overlay. This scheme can reduce the power consumption greatly by regarding all the cluster nodes as a whole. Plus, it can be applied to both the homogeneous and heterogeneous servers. Experimental measurements show that the new method can reduce the power consumption by 74.8% over base at most with certain adjustably acceptable overhead. The effectiveness and performance insights are also analytically verified.
ISSN:1552-5244
2168-9253
DOI:10.1109/CLUSTR.2008.4663751