Workload-aware Power Management of Cluster Systems

Abstract

Along with the increased awareness of energy cost, power management becomes a big issue for clusters. In this study, we investigate the workload aware power management techniques for cluster systems and propose a new power management policy. The considered power management techniques are dynamic workload consolidation and usage of dynamic power range enabled by low power states on servers. The power management policy has been implemented on OpenPBS with Maui, which reduces about ten percent power consumption and optimizes workload distribution to lower the impact on performance.