Robotics and Embedded Systems Seminar: Understanding the Genome of Data Centers

Seminar | November 3 | 4-5 p.m. | 540 Cory Hall

Speaker/Performer: Jie Liu, Microsoft Research

Sponsor: Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)

To meet the growing demand of Online Services, data centers consume
billions of KWh electricity every year, and the number is expected to
double in the next 5 years. A typical data center is operated
conservatively and as a result almost half of the energy consumption
goes into cooling, and power distribution, and idled servers. In this
talk, I summarize a number of research efforts in the Data Center
Genome project, which takes a data-driven approach to data center
energy management, leveraging networked sensing and control
technologies. We have designed and deployed wireless environmental
sensors to monitor heat distribution in server rooms and
software-based services to estimate server power consumption. We
tackled the challenges of reliable wireless data collection, time
series compression and analysis, and static/dynamic resource
management. The findings are used to advance the way equipments are
provisioned, loads are distributed, and systems are operated in
datacenters.

Event Contact: 510-642-6841