A Stochastic Bin Packing Approach for Server Consolidation with Conflicts
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Contributors
Abstract
The energy consumption of large-scale data centers or server clusters is expected to grow significantly in the next couple of years contributing to up to 13% of the worldwide energy demand in 2030. As the involved processing units require a disproportional amount of energy when they are idle, underutilized, or overloaded, balancing the supply of and the demand for computing resources is a key issue to obtain energy-efficient server consolidations. Whereas traditional concepts mostly consider deterministic predictions of the future workloads or only aim at finding approximate solutions, in this article, we propose an exact approach to tackle the problem of assigning jobs with (not necessarily independent) stochastic characteristics to a minimal amount of servers subject to further practically relevant constraints. As a main contribution, the problem under consideration is reformulated as a stochastic bin packing problem with conflicts and modeled by an integer linear program. Finally, this new approach is tested on real-world instances obtained from a Google data center.
Details
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 296-331 |
Number of pages | 36 |
Journal | TOP |
Volume | 30(2) |
Publication status | Published - Jul 2022 |
Peer-reviewed | Yes |
External IDs
Scopus | 85113164549 |
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Mendeley | b823684d-e4b3-3e70-ab4c-297115d6e837 |
Keywords
Sustainable Development Goals
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Keywords
- Bin packing problem, Cutting and packing, Normal distribution, Server consolidation