Power Consumption Analysis of Data Center Architectures

Rastin Pries; Michael Jarschel; Daniel Schlosser; Michael Klopf; Phuoc Tran-Gia

Green Communications and Networking. First International Conference, GreeNets 2011, Colmar, France, October 5-7, 2011, Revised Selected Papers

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Power Consumption Analysis of Data Center Architectures

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-33368-2_10,
    author={Rastin Pries and Michael Jarschel and Daniel Schlosser and Michael Klopf and Phuoc Tran-Gia},
    title={Power Consumption Analysis of Data Center Architectures},
    proceedings={Green Communications and Networking. First International Conference, GreeNets 2011, Colmar, France, October 5-7, 2011, Revised Selected Papers},
    proceedings_a={GREENETS},
    year={2012},
    month={11},
    keywords={data center energy efficiency networking},
    doi={10.1007/978-3-642-33368-2_10}
}

Rastin Pries
Michael Jarschel
Daniel Schlosser
Michael Klopf
Phuoc Tran-Gia
Year: 2012
Power Consumption Analysis of Data Center Architectures
GREENETS
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-33368-2_10

Rastin Pries¹^,*, Michael Jarschel¹^,*, Daniel Schlosser¹^,*, Michael Klopf¹, Phuoc Tran-Gia¹^,*

1: University of Würzburg

*Contact email: pries@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de, michael.jarschel@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de, schlosser@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de, trangia@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de

Abstract

The high power consumption of data centers confronts the providers with major challenges. However, not only the servers and the cooling consume a huge amount of energy, but also the data center network architecture makes an important contribution. In this paper, we introduce different data center architectures and compare them regarding their power consumption. The results show that there are some differences which should not be neglected and that with only minor modifications of the architecture, it is possible to save a huge amount of energy.

Keywords: data center energy efficiency networking

Published: 2012-11-09

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33368-2_10