Author:
Anne-Cécile Orgerie
Affiliation:
CNRS - IRISA, France
Keyword(s):
Energy Efficiency, Cloud Computing, Smart Grids.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Algorithms for Reduced Power, Energy and Heat
;
Energy and Economy
;
Green Communications Architectures and Frameworks
;
Green Data Centers
;
Integration of Smart Appliances
;
Smart Grids
;
Sustainable Computing and Communications
Abstract:
Cloud computing is becoming an essential component for Internet services. However, its energy consumption
has become a key environmental and economic concern. The distributed nature of Cloud infrastructures
involves that their components are spread across wide areas, interconnected through different networks, and
powered by diverse energy sources and providers, making overall energy monitoring and optimizations challenging.
In this paper, we present the opportunity brought by the Smart Grids to exploit renewable energy
availability and to optimize energy management in distributed Clouds. The presence of smart sensors which
are both integrated into the electricity Grid and connected to the Internet, indeed offers for the first time the
possibility of exploiting the availability of various energy sources, and of making complete energy measurements
of all the Cloud resources – computing, storage and especially networking resources – problems which
have previously been intractable.