Mitigating disk energy management delays by exploiting peer memory

Guanying Wang, Ali R. Butt, Chris Gniady

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3 Scopus citations

Abstract

Modern enterprises employ hundreds of workstations for daily business operations, which consume a lot of energy and thus have significant operating costs. To reduce such costs, dynamic energy management is often employed. However, dynamic energy management, especially that for disks, introduces delays when an accessed disk is in a low power state and needs to be brought into active state. In this paper, we propose System-wide Alternative Retrieval of Data (SARD) that exploits the large number of machines in an enterprise environment to transparently retrieve binaries from other nodes, thus avoiding access delays when the local disk is in a low power mode. SARD uses a software-based approach to reduce spin-up delays while eliminating the need for major operating system changes, custom buffering, or shared memory infrastructure.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2009 IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, MASCOTS 2009
Pages614-617
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Event2009 IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, MASCOTS 2009 - London, United Kingdom
Duration: Sep 21 2009Sep 23 2009

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE Computer Society's Annual International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems, MASCOTS
ISSN (Print)1526-7539

Other

Other2009 IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, MASCOTS 2009
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityLondon
Period9/21/099/23/09

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Software
  • Modeling and Simulation

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