Parasol and GreenSwitch

• DOI: 10.1145/2451116.2451123
• Publication Date: 2013-03-19T09:34:53Z
• Authors: Íñigo Goiri; William Katsak; Kien Le; Thu D. Nguyen; Ricardo Bianchini
• Keywords: Energy supply

Several companies have recently announced plans to build "green" datacenters, i.e. datacenters partially or completely powered by renewable energy. These will either generate their own energy draw it directly from an existing nearby plant. Besides reducing carbon footprints, can potentially reduce costs, peak power both. However, certain fuels are intermittent, which requires approaches for tackling the supply variability. One approach is use batteries and/or electrical grid as a backup It may also be possible adapt workload match supply. For highest benefits, green datacenter operators must intelligently manage workloads and sources of at disposal.