Towards an Adaptive Multi-Power-Source Datacenter
Longjun Liu, Hongbin Sun, Chao Li, Yang Hu, Nanning Zheng, Tao Li · 2016
Big data and cloud computing are accelerating the capacity growth of datacenters all over the world. Their energy costs and environmental issues have pushed datacenter operators to explore and integrate alternative energy sources, such as various renewable energy supplies and energy storage devices. Designing datacenters powered by multi-power supplies in the smart grid environment is becoming a promising trend in the next few decades. However, gracefully provisioning various power sources and efficiently manage them in datacenter is a significant challenge.