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An introduction to stochastic bin packing-based server consolidation with conflicts

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  • John Martinovic

    (Technische Universität Dresden)

  • Markus Hähnel

    (Technische Universität Dresden)

  • Guntram Scheithauer

    (Technische Universität Dresden)

  • Waltenegus Dargie

    (Technische Universität Dresden)

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.

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  • John Martinovic & Markus Hähnel & Guntram Scheithauer & Waltenegus Dargie, 2022. "An introduction to stochastic bin packing-based server consolidation with conflicts," TOP: An Official Journal of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research, Springer;Sociedad de Estadística e Investigación Operativa, vol. 30(2), pages 296-331, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:topjnl:v:30:y:2022:i:2:d:10.1007_s11750-021-00613-1
    DOI: 10.1007/s11750-021-00613-1
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