Enabling Green Energy awareness in Interactive Cloud Application

Md Sabbir Hasan (1, 2) , Frederico Alvares de Oliveira (2) , Thomas Ledoux (2, 3) , Jean-Louis Pazat (1)

1 MYRIADS - Design and Implementation of Autonomous Distributed Systems
2 ASCOLA - Aspect and composition languages
3 Mines Nantes - Mines Nantes

With the proliferation of Cloud computing, data centers have to urgently face energy consumption issues. Although recent efforts such as the integration of renewable energy to data centers or energy efficient techniques in (virtual) machines contribute to the reduction of carbon footprint, creating green energy awareness around Interactive Cloud Applications by smartly using the presence of green energy has not been yet addressed. By awareness, we mean the inherited capability of Software-as-a-Service applications to dynamically adapt with the availability of green energy and to reduce energy consumption while green energy is scarce or absent. In this paper, we present two application controllers based on different metrics (e.g., availability of green energy, response time, user experience level). Based on extensive experiments with a real application benchmark and workloads in Grid'5000, results suggest that providers revenue can be increased as high as 64%, while 13% brown energy can be reduced without deprovisioning any physical or virtual resources at IaaS layer and 17 fold increment of performance can be guaranteed.

Mots clés: Autonomic computing; User Experience; Index Terms—Cloud Computing; Renewable Energy; SaaS Application

Domaines: Informatique [cs]

Md Sabbir Hasan, Frederico Alvares de Oliveira, Thomas Ledoux, Jean-Louis Pazat. Enabling Green Energy awareness in Interactive Cloud Application. CloudCom 2016: IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, Dec 2016, Luxembourg, Luxembourg. ⟨10.1109/CloudCom.2016.0071⟩. ⟨hal-01365230⟩