A Case Study on Job Scheduling Policy for Workload Characterization and Power Efficiency

With the increasing popularity of cloud computing, datacenters are becoming more important than ever before. A typical datacenter typically consists of a large number of homogeneous or heterogeneous servers connected by networks. Unfortunately, these servers and network equipment are often under-utilized and power hungry. To improve the utilization of hardware resources and make them power efficiency in datacenters, workload characterization and analysis is at the foundation. In this paper, we characterize and analyze the job arriving rate, arriving time, job length, power consumption, and temperature dissipation in a real world datacenter by using statistical methods. From the characterization, we find unique features in the workload can be used to optimize the resource utilization and power consumption of datacenters