作者: Congfeng Jiang , Yumei Wang , Dongyang Ou , Bing Luo , Weisong Shi
关键词: Efficient energy use 、 Real-time computing 、 Server 、 Energy (signal processing) 、 The Internet 、 Data center 、 Energy accounting 、 Computer science 、 Energy proportional computing 、 Energy consumption 、 Distributed computing 、 Workload
摘要: The huge energy consumption in data centers produces not only high electricity bill but also tremendous carbon footprints. Although today's servers and of leading internet companies are more efficient than ever before, the fluctuations external workload internal resource utilization calls for proportional computing. Insight into server proportionality can help improve placement while reducing consumption. In this paper, we investigate all 477 valid published results SPECpower_ssj benchmark from 2007 to 2016Q3 reorganize them by hardware availability year accurate analysis on production servers. Through comprehensive find that: (1) specious stagnation recent years is mainly caused adoption processors specific microarchitecture indicative trend improvement. (2) Microarchitecture evolution has influence efficiency improvement proportionality. (3) Today's servers' peak efficiencies shifting 100% 80% or 70% improves with such shifting. We then conduct extensive experiments 4 rack variations under different configurations, including memory per core installation processor frequency scaling. Our show that configuration significant impact server's efficiency. findings presented paper provide useful insights guidance system designers, as well center operators aware savings.