Opportunities and challenges for data center demand response

A Wierman, Z Liu, I Liu… - International Green …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper surveys the opportunities and challenges in an emerging area of research that
has the potential to significantly ease the incorporation of renewable energy into the grid as …

Reconfigurable battery systems: A survey on hardware architecture and research challenges

S Muhammad, MU Rafique, S Li, Z Shao… - ACM Transactions on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
In a reconfigurable battery pack, the connections among cells can be changed during
operation to form different configurations. This can lead a battery, a passive two-terminal …

Reducing electricity demand charge for data centers with partial execution

H Xu, B Li - Proceedings of the 5th international conference on …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Data centers consume a large amount of energy and incur substantial electricity cost. In this
paper, we study the familiar problem of reducing data center energy cost with two new …

Exploiting a thermal side channel for power attacks in multi-tenant data centers

MA Islam, S Ren, A Wierman - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGSAC …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
The power capacity of multi-tenant data centers is typically oversubscribed in order to
increase the utilization of expensive power infrastructure. This practice can create …

Shaving data center power demand peaks through energy storage and workload shifting control

M Dabbagh, B Hamdaoui, A Rayes… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes efficient strategies that shave Data Centers (DCs)'monthly peak power
demand with the aim of reducing the DCs' monthly expenses. Specifically, the proposed …

3D-printed fluidic networks for high-power-density heat-managing miniaturized redox flow batteries

J Marschewski, L Brenner, N Ebejer, P Ruch… - Energy & …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The miniaturization of redox flow cells (RFCs) paves the way to novel energy conversion
concepts combining power delivery and heat regulation. Envisioning the integration of high …

Thermal time shifting: Leveraging phase change materials to reduce cooling costs in warehouse-scale computers

M Skach, M Arora, CH Hsu, Q Li, D Tullsen… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Datacenters, or warehouse scale computers, are rapidly increasing in size and power
consumption. However, this growth comes at the cost of an increasing thermal load that must …

Leveraging energy storage to optimize data center electricity cost in emerging power markets

Y Shi, B Xu, B Zhang, D Wang - Proceedings of the Seventh …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Energy storage in data centers has mainly been used as devices to backup generators
during power outages. Recently there has been a growing interest in using energy storage …

Infrastructure aware heterogeneous-workloads scheduling for data center energy cost minimization

K Haghshenas, S Taheri, M Goudarzi… - … on Cloud Computing, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A huge amount of energy consumption, the cost of this usage and environmental effects
have become serious issues for commercial cloud providers. Solar energy is a promising …

Fine-grained warm water cooling for improving datacenter economy

W Jiang, Z Jia, S Feng, F Liu, H ** - Proceedings of the 46th …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Driven by the increasing power consumption of datacenters, the industry is focusing more on
water cooling for improving the energy efficiency. Using warm water to cool servers has …