Cloud computing has gained popularity in recent years delivering various services as cost-
effective platforms. However, the increasing energy consumption needs to be addressed in …

In recent years, by increasing CPU and I/O devices demands, running multiple tasks
simultaneously becomes a crucial issue. This paper presents a new task scheduling …

Low disk drive utilization suggests that placing the drive into a power saving mode during
idle times may decrease power consumption. We present PREFiguRE, a robust framework …

Abstract− In recent years, with an increasing number of requests, energy, power and
temperature have been important keys in embedded systems, which decrease the lifetime of …

With the decreasing cost and wide-spread use of commodity hard drives, it has become
possible to create very large-scale storage systems with less expense. However, as we …

Video files contain large amount of data, which can be stored cost-effectively on a hard disk
drive, but this consumes a significant energy when it is spinning and ready to read data. The …

Over-provisioning is a standard capacity planning practice that leads to disk drives that
operate mostly under very low utilization (as low as single digit utilization) but that are …