Research progress and development trend of cross-layer energy efficiency optimization in data centers
Jiye Wang, Biyu Zhou, Wantao Liu, Songlin Hu · Scientia Sinica Informationis · 2020
Energy consumption has become a main obstacle hindering the further development of data centers. To solve this problem, many data center energy efficiency optimization studies have emerged in academia and industry in recent years. This review introduces current global research on the data center energy saving problem from the perspective of optimizing cross-layer energy efficiency, including the refrigeration and power supply system energy efficiency optimization based on IT load dispatching as well as unified energy efficiency optimization of IT and refrigeration systems, and then projects trends in these areas.