Technology with the Environment in Mind

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Dynamic Data Center Power Management: Trends, Issues, and Solutions

CONCLUSION

Current trends in data center power reveal a fundamental need for a power management capability on the platform that can be used to monitor power consumption and enforce power policies.

We have described an embedded policy manager (PM) as the foundational capability for a dynamic policy-based power management approach. The initial results of our implementation show that a dynamic policy-based power management approach using a PM can be used to increase server density within a rack power envelop, and to reduce power consumption with minimal performance impact.

In our future work, we will explore additional use cases and policies, and further investigate the benefits of fine-grained power-control methods.

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