Skip to main content

GreenSLAs: Supporting Energy-Efficiency through Contracts

  • Conference paper

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCCN,volume 7396))

Abstract

Outsourcing services from local or personal devices to data centers or the cloud is an ongoing trend in information technology. This trend has led to the expansion of the IT service business and, to a dramatic increase of energy consumption in data centers. One of the objectives of GreenIT is to stop or even reverse this development. Many technical approaches to save energy during the operational phase of a data center are currently being proposed. Unfortunately, a reduction of energy consumption may have a negative impact onto a customer’s perceived quality-of-service as denoted in service level agreements (SLAs). Energy aware “GreenSLAs” can help counteracting this dilemma by extending a data center’s scope to pursue energy saving measures at runtime. This paper discusses the idea and first empirical results regarding the use of GreenSLAs to balance performance, time, cost, and energy by including semantic information into executable SLAs.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.

Buying options

Chapter
USD   29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD   39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD   49.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Learn about institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  1. Barnett, J., Akolkar, R., Auburn R.J., Bodell, M., Burnett, D.C., Carter, J., McGlashan, S., Lager, T., Helbing, M., Hosn, R., Raman, T.V., Reifenrath, K.: W3C Working Draft (2010), http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-scxml-20101216/

  2. Basmadjian, R., Bunse, C., Georgiadou, V., Giuliani, G., Klingert, S., Lovasz, G., Majanen, M.: FIT4Green - Energy aware ICT Optimization Policies. In: Proceedings of the COST Action IC0804 on Energy Efficiency in Large Scale Distributed Systems - 1st Year (2010)

    Google Scholar 

  3. Battré, D., Wieder, P., Ziegler, W.: WS-Agreement Specification Version 1.0 Exp. Document Open Grid Forum (2010)

    Google Scholar 

  4. Beloglazov, A., Buyya, R., Lee, Y.C., Zomaya, A.Z.: A Taxonomy and Survey of Energy-Efficient Data Centers and Cloud Computing Systems. Advances in Computers 82 (2011)

    Google Scholar 

  5. Berl, A., Gelenbe, E., Di Girolamo, M., Giuliani, G., De Meer, H., Dang, M.-D., Pentikousis, K.: Energy-Efficient Cloud Computing. The Computer Journal 53(7) (September 2010)

    Google Scholar 

  6. Breskovic, I., Maurer, M., Emeakaroha, V.C., Brandic, I.: Towards Autonomic Market Management in Cloud Computing Infrastructures. In: CLOSER 2011 (2011)

    Google Scholar 

  7. Bunse, C., Höpfner, H.: Resource substitution with components - Optimizing Energy Consumption. In: Proc. of the 3rd ICSOFT, Setubal, Portugal, pp. 28–35. INSTICC Press (2008)

    Google Scholar 

  8. Bunse, C., Höpfner, H.: Energieeffiziente Software-Systeme. In: Halang, W.A., Holleczek, P. (eds.) Eingebettete Systeme — Proc. of the Real-time 2010 Workshop (Echtzeit 2010), Boppard. Informatik aktuell, November 18-19. Springer (2010)

    Google Scholar 

  9. Bunse, C., Höpfner, H.: Analyse des Zusammenhangs zwischen Energiebedarf, Dienstgüte und Performanz bei der Ressourcensubstitution in Software-Systemen. In: Halang, W.A., Holleczek, P. (eds.) Eingebettete Systeme — Proc. of the Real-time 2011 Workshop (Echtzeit 2011), Boppard. Informatik aktuell. Springer, Heidelberg (2011)

    Google Scholar 

  10. Bunse, C., Höpfner, H.: Energy Awareness Needs a Rethinking in Software Development. In: Cuaresma, M.J. E., Shishkov, B., Cordeiro, J. (eds.) ICSOFT 2011 - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies, Seville, Spain, July 18-21, vol. 2 (2011)

    Google Scholar 

  11. Buyya, R., Ranjan, R., Calheiros, R.N.: Modeling and simulation of scalable cloud computing environments and the CloudSim toolkit: Challenges and opportunities. In: Proceedings of the 7th High Performance Computing and Simulation Conference (HPCS 2009). IEEE Press, USA (2009)

    Google Scholar 

  12. HP Corp., Intel Corp., Microsoft Corp., Phoenix technologies Ltd and Toshiba Corp.: Advanced Configuration and Power Interface Specification. Revision 4.0.a (April 2010)

    Google Scholar 

  13. Klingert, S., Bunse, C.: GreenSLAs for Energy Efficient Scheduling. In: Proceedings of the COST Action IC0804 on Energy Efficiency in Large Scale Distributed Systems (2011)

    Google Scholar 

  14. Klingert, S., Schulze, T., Bunse, C.: GreenSLAs for the Energy-efficient Management of Data centers. In: Second International Conference on Energy-efficient Computing and Networking (E-Energy 2011), New York (2011)

    Google Scholar 

  15. Lawrence, A., Djemame, K., Wäldrich, O., Ziegler, W., Zsigri, C.: Using Service Level Agreements for Optimising Cloud Infrastructure Services. In: Cezon, M., Wolfsthal, Y. (eds.) ServiceWave 2010 Workshops. LNCS, vol. 6569, pp. 38–49. Springer, Heidelberg (2011)

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  16. von Laszewski, G., Wang, L.: GreenIT Service Level Agreements. In: Gridworkshop Collocated with IEEE-ACM GRID 2009 Conference, Canada (2009)

    Google Scholar 

  17. Liu, L., Wang, H., Liu, X., Jin, X., He, W., Wang, Q., Chen, Y.: GreenCloud: A New Architecture for Green Data Center. In: The 6th International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communications, Barcelona, Spain (June 16, 2009)

    Google Scholar 

  18. Ouelhadj, D., Garibaldi, J.M., MacLaren, J., Sakellariou, R., Krishnakumar, K.T.: A Multi-agent Infrastructure and a Service Level Agreement Negotiation Protocol for Robust Scheduling in Grid Computing. In: Sloot, P.M.A., Hoekstra, A.G., Priol, T., Reinefeld, A., Bubak, M. (eds.) EGC 2005. LNCS, vol. 3470, pp. 651–660. Springer, Heidelberg (2005)

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  19. Sakellarriou, R., Yarmolenko, V.: Job Scheduling on the Grid: Towards SLA-Based Scheduling. In: Grandinetti, L. (ed.) High Performance Comp. and Grids in Action. Adv. in Parallel Comp., vol. 16 (2009)

    Google Scholar 

  20. Spillner, J., Schill, A.: Dynamic SLA Template Adjustments Based on Service Property Monitoring. In: 2009 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, pp. 183–189 (2009)

    Google Scholar 

  21. Webb, M., et al.: SMART 2020: Enabling the low carbon economy in the information age. The Climate Group London (2008), http://www.ecoc2008.org/documents/SYMPTu_Webb.pdf

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2012 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

About this paper

Cite this paper

Bunse, C., Klingert, S., Schulze, T. (2012). GreenSLAs: Supporting Energy-Efficiency through Contracts. In: Huusko, J., de Meer, H., Klingert, S., Somov, A. (eds) Energy Efficient Data Centers. E2DC 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7396. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33645-4_6

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33645-4_6

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-642-33644-7

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-642-33645-4

  • eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics