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Proactive and Reactive Thermal Optimization Techniques to Improve Energy Efficiency in Data Centers

Workshop PICATA
Marina Zapater Jos L. Ayala, Jos M. Moya

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Presentation

ArTeCS Group
Group of Architecture and Technology of Computing Systems Facultad de Informtica Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Laboratorio de Sistemas Integrados (LSI)

Departamento de Ingeniera Electrnica ETSI Telecomunicacin Universidad Politcnica de Madrid

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Data Centers

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Motivation
Power consumption in data centers
1.3% world energy production in 2010 USA: 80 billion KWh/year in 2011 = 1.5xNYC 250 billion KWh/year in 2010

More than 43 Million tons of CO2 / year More water than paper, automotive, petrol, wood or plastic industry
Jonathan Koomey. 2011. Growth in Data center electricity use 2005 to 2010

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World server installed base (thousands) 35000 30000

It is expected for total data center electricity use to exceed 400 GWh/year by 2015. The required energy for cooling will continue to be at least as important as the energy required for the computation.

25000 20000 15000 10000 5000 0 2000 2005 2010 High-end servers Mid-range servers

Volume servers

5,75 Million new servers per year 10% unused servers (CO2 emissions similar to 6,5 million cars)
300 250 200 150 100 50 0 2000 2005 2010 Electricity Use (billion KWh/year) Infrastructure Communications Storage High-end servers

Energy optimization of
future data centers will require a global and multidisciplinary approach.
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Mid-range servers
Volume servers

State of the Art Energy Savings for different abstraction levels

Abstraction level

Higher levels of abstraction bring more benefits Application-level still has to be explored.

Solutions proposed by the State of the Art

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Our perspective
Proactive and reactive holistic approach Using the knowledge about the energy demand of the applications, the features of the computation and cooling resources to apply proactive optimization techniques Global strategy to integrate multiple information sources and coordinate decissions to reduce overall power consumption.

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Our perspective
IT and Cooling power
P TOTAL P IT P cooling

PTOTAL PUE PIT

State of the Art: PUE 1,2

The important part is IT energy consumption Current work is focused on decreasing PUE

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Our perspective
IT and Cooling power
P TOTAL P IT P cooling

PTOTAL PUE PIT

Minimize IT power Jointly minimize IT and cooling

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Minimizing IT Power
Leveraging heterogeneity
Usage heterogeneity (existance of different servers) to minimize energy consumption:
Static: Finding the best data center set-up, given a number of heterogeneous machines Dynamic: optimization of task allocation

M. Zapater, J.M. Moya, J.L. Ayala. Leveraging Heterogeneity for Energy Minimization in Data Centers, CCGrid 2012

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Minimizing IT power
Application Awareness

WORKLOAD

Scheduler

Resource Manager Execution

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Heterogeneity
Application Awareness

WORKLOAD

Scheduler

Resource Manager Execution

Profiling and Classification

Energy Optimization

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Cooling management
Leakage-cooling tradeoffs at the server level
Control of the fan speed of a server
Enterprise server: Sparc T3 (256 threads) Real measures with server internal sensors

We can find an optimum pointbetween leakage and cooling to minimize power

Work in collaboration with:
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Cooling management
Leakage-cooling tradeoffs at the server level

Work in collaboration with:

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Cooling & IT Joint Opt.

Work in Progress
Deriving a data room thermal model to jointly allocate computational and cooling resources
Gathering environmental data through sensors (WSN) Server sensors Workload information

Usage of genetic programming and genetic algotithms

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Holistic aproach
Proactive and reactive techniques
System that increases the knowledge of the data center Real implementation scenario at CeSViMa Power optimization in globally distributed systems
GreenDISC Project: HW/SW Technologies for Energy Efficiency in Distributed Computing Systems. UCM-UPM
TEC2012-33892. Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness

Data Center state Sensing

Optimization Decission proposal

Datacenter

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Research goals
Expected impact

Energy and CO2 carbon footprint reduction in data centers

So far, 25% reduction in IT resource management optimizations 10% energy reduction in fan control policies

Joint IT/cooling techniques are expected to bring much more benefits. Solutions in a real environment: CeSViMa

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Questions?
Thank you for your attention

Marina Zapater marina@die.upm.es

B105. ETSI Telecomunicacin Avda Complutense, 30 91 549 57 00 (+ 4227)

http://greenlsi.die.upm.es http://artecs.dacya.ucm.es/

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Research results
M. Zapater, J.L. Ayala, J.M. Moya, K. Vaidyanathan, K. Gross, A.K. Coskun, Leakage and Temperature Aware Server Control for Improving Energy Efficiency in Data Centers. To apper in: DATE13, 2013. M. Zapater, J. L. Ayala, and J. M. Moya. GreenDisc: a HW/SW energy optimization framework in globally distributed computation, J. Bravo, D. Lpez-de Ipia, and F. Moya, Ed., Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012, pp. 1-8. M. Zapater, J. L. Ayala, and J. M. Moya, Leveraging heterogeneity for energy minimization in data centers, in Proceedings of the 2012 12th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGRID 2012), Washington, DC, USA, 2012. M. Zapater, C. Sanchez, J. L. Ayala, J. M. Moya, and J. L. Risco-Martn, Ubiquitous green computing techniques for high demand applications in smart environments Sensors, vol. 12, iss. 8, pp. 10659-10677, 2012 M. Zapater, P. Arroba, J. M. Moya, and Z. Bankovic, A State-of-the-Art on energy efficiency in todays datacentres: researchers contributions and practical approaches, UPGRADE, vol. 12, iss. 4, pp. 67-74, 2011. M. Zapater, J. L. Risco, J. L. Ayala, and J. M. Moya, Combined Dynamic-Static approach for ThermalAwareness in heterogeneous data centers IWIA 2010.

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