Reliable and energy-efficient next-generation data centres

可靠且节能的下一代数据中心

• 批准号: 356073-2013
• 负责人: Schroeder, Bianca
• 金额: $ 2.62万
• 依托单位: University of Toronto
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2016-01-01 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=595791
• 关键词: Reliable; energy; efficient; next; generation

Datacenters have turned into major resource hogs with annual operating budgets running into many millions of dollars. The goal of this work is to run datacenters more efficiently by addressing two of the main contributing factors: The first is the challenge of providing system reliability. Between 30--40\% of the operating budget is made up by the cost of system failures and efforts to protect against them. The second is energy usage. More than a third of the operating budget of a typical datacenter goes into electricity consumption. Both problems are becoming limiting factors in data center design and are predicted to get worse in the future as data centers keep growing in size.

数据中心已经成为主要的资源消耗者，每年的运营预算高达数百万美元。这项工作的目标是通过解决两个主要的影响因素来更有效地运行数据中心：第一个是提供系统可靠性的挑战。30- 40%的运营预算是由系统故障的成本和防止故障的努力构成的。第二是能源使用。典型数据中心运营预算的三分之一以上用于电力消耗。这两个问题正在成为数据中心设计的限制因素，并且随着数据中心规模的不断增长，预计未来会变得更糟。