Garraghan, PM, Solis Moreno, I, Townend, PM et al. (1 more author) (2014) An Analysis of Failure-Related Energy Waste in a Large-Scale Cloud Environment. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, 2 (2). pp. 166-180. ISSN 2168-6750
Abstract
Cloud computing providers are under great pressure to reduce operational costs through improved energy utilization while provisioning dependable service to customers; it is therefore extremely important to understand and quantify the explicit impact of failures within a system in terms of energy costs. This paper presents the first comprehensive analysis of the impact of failures on energy consumption in a real-world large-scale cloud system (comprising over 12 500 servers), including the study of failure and energy trends of the spatial and temporal environmental characteristics. Our results show that 88% of task failure events occur in lower priority tasks producing 13% of total energy waste, and 1% of failure events occur in higher priority tasks due to server failures producing 8% of total energy waste. These results highlight an unintuitive but significant impact on energy consumption due to failures, providing a strong foundation for research into dependable energy-aware cloud computing.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | Cloud computing; Dependability; Energy consumption; Failure analysis; Waste management |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Computing (Leeds) The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 12 Mar 2015 09:42 |
Last Modified: | 20 Jun 2021 08:37 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TETC.2014.2304500 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | IEEE |
Identification Number: | 10.1109/TETC.2014.2304500 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:83237 |