Power management by load forecasting in web server clusters |
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Authors: | Carlos Santana Julius C B Leite Daniel Mossé |
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Institution: | 1.Instituto de Computa??o,Universidade Federal Fluminense,Niterói,Brazil;2.Department of Computer Science,University of Pittsburgh,Pittsburgh,USA |
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Abstract: | The complexity and requirements of web applications are increasing in order to meet more sophisticated business models (web
services and cloud computing, for instance). For this reason, characteristics such as performance, scalability and security
are addressed in web server cluster design. Due to the rising energy costs and also to environmental concerns, energy consumption
in this type of system has become a main issue. This paper shows energy consumption reduction techniques that use a load forecasting
method, combined with DVFS (Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling) and dynamic configuration techniques (turning servers on
and off), in a soft real-time web server clustered environment. Our system promotes energy consumption reduction while maintaining
user’s satisfaction with respect to request deadlines being met. The results obtained show that prediction capabilities increase
the QoS (Quality of Service) of the system, while maintaining or improving the energy savings over state-of-the-art power
management mechanisms. To validate this predictive policy, a web application running a real workload profile was deployed
in an Apache server cluster testbed running Linux. |
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