- 著者
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Takaaki DEGUCHI
Yoshiaki TANIGUCHI
Go HASEGAWA
Yutaka NAKAMURA
Norimichi UKITA
Kazuhiro MATSUDA
Morito MATSUOKA
- 出版者
- 一般社団法人 電子情報通信学会
- 雑誌
- IEICE Transactions on Communications (ISSN:09168516)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.E99.B, no.2, pp.347-355, 2016-02-01 (Released:2016-02-01)
- 参考文献数
- 17
- 被引用文献数
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In this paper, we propose a workload assignment policy for reducing power consumption by air conditioners in data centers. In the proposed policy, to reduce the air conditioner power consumption by raising the temperature set points of the air conditioners, the temperatures of all server back-planes are equalized by moving workload from the servers with the highest temperatures to the servers with the lowest temperatures. To evaluate the proposed policy, we use a computational fluid dynamics simulator for obtaining airflow and air temperature in data centers, and an air conditioner model based on experimental results from actual data center. Through evaluation, we show that the air conditioners' power consumption is reduced by 10.4% in a conventional data center. In addition, in a tandem data center proposed in our research group, the air conditioners' power consumption is reduced by 53%, and the total power consumption of the whole data center is exhibited to be reduced by 23% by reusing the exhaust heat from the servers.