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JSW 2011 Vol.6(8): 1562-1569
doi: 10.4304/jsw.6.8.1562-1569

Power Aware Job Scheduling with QoS Guarantees Based on Feedback Control

Congfeng Jiang 1 , Xianghua Xu 1 , Jian Wan 1 , Jilin Zhang 1 , Yinghui Zhao 2

  • 1 Grid and Service Computing Technology Lab, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, 310037, China
  • 2 Department of Hydraulic Engineering and Agriculture, Zhejiang Tongji Vocational College of Science and Technology, Hangzhou, 311231, China

Abstract

With the scale of computing system increases, system performance and reliability, described by various Quality of Service(QoS) metrics, cannot be guaranteed if only the objective is to minimize the total power consumptions separately, despite of the violations of QoS. In this paper a feedback control based power aware job scheduling algorithm is proposed to minimize power consumption in computing system and to provide QoS guarantees. In the proposed algorithm, jobs are scheduled according to the real-time and historical power consumption as well as the QoS requirements. Simulations show that the proposed algorithm can reduce power consumptions significantly while still providing QoS guarantees and the performance degradation is acceptable. The results also show that fine-grained job-level power aware scheduling can achieve better power/performance balancing between multiple processors or cores than coarse-grained methods. And the results also suggest that conventional hardware based per-component and system-wide power management methods can save more power consumptions if they are in assistance with job-level adaptation.

Keywords

  • power
  • aware
  • computing
  • system;
  • job
  • schedu
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Congfeng Jiang, Xianghua Xu, Jian Wan, Jilin Zhang, and Yinghui Zhao, "Power Aware Job Scheduling with QoS Guarantees Based on Feedback Control," Journal of Software, vol. 6, no. 8, pp. 1562-1569, 2011. https://doi.org/ 10.4304/jsw.6.8.1562-1569

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Copyright © 2011 by the authors. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0).

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  • ISSN: 1796-217X (Online)

  • Abbreviated Title: J. Softw.

  • Frequency:  Biannually

  • APC: 500USD

  • DOI: 10.17706/JSW

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