Energy proportional data centers optimize power consumption
Posted in asset-utilization, data-center, data-center-network, dynamic-infrastructure, energy-proportional, google, low-power, power-utilization on July 7th, 2010 by FrankM – Comments OffGoogle research looks to develop energy proportional data centers that throttle power based on network utilization. The technique involves modifying the network topology and dynamically tuning network switches. …
… “the authors suggest several ways to build data center networks that use power in proportion to the volume of data being transmitted, rather than running at high-power during periods of both high and low utilization. ” …
Via Information Week: Google data center research.