Large-scale Distributed Systems and Energy Efficiency: A Holistic View

Chapter 6Green Data Centers

Robert Basmadjian,¹ Pascal Bouvry,² Georges Da Costa,³ László Gyarmati,⁴ Dzmitry Kliazovich,² Sébastien Lafond,⁵ Laurent Lefèvre,⁶ Hermann De Meer,⁷ Jean-Marc Pierson,³ Rastin Pries,⁸ Jordi Torres,⁹ Tuan Anh Trinh,¹⁰ and Samee Ullah Khan¹¹

¹ONE LOGIC GmbH, Passau, Germany

²Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication, University of Luxembourg, Walferdange, Luxembourg

³IRIT, University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France

⁴Telefonica Research, Madrid, Spain

⁵Department of Information Technologies, Åbo Akademi University, Åbo, Finland

⁶Inria, LIP Laboratory, Ecole Normale Superieure of Lyon, University of Lyon, Lyon, France

⁷Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Passau, Passau, Germany

⁸Department of Industrial Research and Innovation, VDI/VDE-IT, Germany

⁹Computer Architecture department, Barcelona Supercomputing Center—UPC, Barcelona Tech, Barcelona, Spain

¹⁰Department of Telecommunications and Media Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary

¹¹Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Dakota State University, Fargo, USA

6.1 Introduction

The wide adoption of the novel Internet services of the past decade, for example, Web 2.0 services, cloud services, and cloud computing, modified the structure of the whole Internet ecosystem. Contrary to the earlier disperse structure, where each service had its own server to be operated on, the infrastructures of the current cloud services are ...