Comprehensive Energy Efficient Approach to Workload Processing in Distributed Computing Environment

Abstract

Modern pace of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) progress requires rapid development of completely new approaches to data processing. One of the most important criteria that should be taken into account in every computing system nowadays is its energy efficiency. Strict requirements to service availability and timeliness must be taken into account as well. In this paper new comprehensive energy efficient approach to workload processing in distributed computing environment is proposed. The goal of this approach is to get as close as possible to the energy-proportional computing model. Proposed approach combines the advantages of horizontal scaling and energy efficient scheduling taking into account individual power consumption characteristics of computing nodes and dynamicity of workload in modern computing systems. The efficiency of the proposed approach is proven using Matlab modeling.