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ISCA 2010: Computer Architecture pp 172–182Cite as

The Search for Energy-Efficient Building Blocks for the Data Center

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Abstract

This paper conducts a survey of several small clusters of machines in search of the most energy-efficient data center building block targeting data-intensive computing. We first evaluate the performance and power of single machines from the embedded, mobile, desktop, and server spaces. From this group, we narrow our choices to three system types. We build five-node homogeneous clusters of each type and run Dryad, a distributed execution engine, with a collection of data-intensive workloads to measure the energy consumption per task on each cluster. For this collection of data-intensive workloads, our high-end mobile-class system was, on average, 80% more energy-efficient than a cluster with embedded processors and at least 300% more energy-efficient than a cluster with low-power server processors.

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  • Energy Efficiency
  • Embed Processor
  • Server Processor
  • Intel Atom
  • Data Center Computing

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  1. University of California, Berkeley, USA

    Laura Keys

  2. Sonoma State University, USA

    Suzanne Rivoire

  3. Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley, USA

    John D. Davis

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  1. Software Technologies Department, Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 4, 2628, Delft, CD, The Netherlands

    Ana Lucia Varbanescu

  2. Software Technologies Dept, Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 4, 2628, Delft, CD, The Netherlands

    Anca Molnos

  3. Department of Computer Science, Vrije Unversiteit Amsterdam, 1081, Amsterdam, HV, The Netherlands

    Rob van Nieuwpoort

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Keys, L., Rivoire, S., Davis, J.D. (2011). The Search for Energy-Efficient Building Blocks for the Data Center. In: Varbanescu, A.L., Molnos, A., van Nieuwpoort, R. (eds) Computer Architecture. ISCA 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6161. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24322-6_15

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