II-EN: BlueTool: Infrastructure for Innovative Cyberphysical Data Center Management Research

II-EN：BlueTool：创新网络物理数据中心管理研究的基础设施

• 批准号: 0855277
• 负责人: Sandeep Gupta
• 金额: $ 80万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-08-01 至 2013-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0855277&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: II; EN; BlueTool; Infrastructure; Innovative

Energy consumption for data centers (a.k.a. hosting centers, server farms, clusters etc.) is rapidly increasing and is fast becoming a significant portion of the nation?s annual energy budget. Surprisingly, many of the contemporary data centers are designed and managed very inefficiently, mainly due to reliance on folklore techniques rather than those grounded in hard scientific evidence. In addition, contemporary research and experimentation in greening data centers is severely hindered by the unavailability of an experimentation test-bed, the cost of performing live tests of alternative configurations and the excessive long duration for performing simulations based on high-complexity offline models based on computational fluid dynamics.The BlueTool project aims to resolve these issues by: 1) increasing awareness of the latest scientific and engineering research on managing data centers, and 2) providing a research and evaluation infrastructure to test and develop new methodologies to address the inefficiencies of data centers. BlueTool will promote the use of holistic cyber-physical concepts to foster the development of energy-efficient and sustainable data centers. It will leverage recent research advances in cooling technologies and cyber-physical management for data centers at Arizona State University (ASU) and provide synergy for advancing the ongoing research in this field at ASU and elsewhere. BlueTool will consist of: (a) an online tool that can simulate various configurations of data centers, in terms of physical layout, hardware and software configuration; (b) a research hub and portal, maintained by the IMPACT Lab at ASU (http://impact.asu.edu), that offers data services on various updatable archives including power and thermal profiles, multi-scale low-complexity thermal and power models, and data center management methods and software. Researchers from both academia and industry will be able to use BlueTool's online consulting services to improve the computing performance and energy consumption of conventional or existing configurations with newly developed techniques.

数据中心（又称托管中心、服务器场、集群等）的能源消耗正在迅速增加，并迅速成为国家年度能源预算的重要组成部分。令人惊讶的是，许多当代数据中心的设计和管理效率非常低下，这主要是由于依赖民间传说技术而不是基于确凿科学证据的技术。此外，由于缺乏实验测试台、对替代配置进行现场测试的成本以及基于高复杂性离线模型进行模拟所需的时间过长，当代绿化数据中心的研究和实验受到严重阻碍。 BlueTool 项目旨在通过以下方式解决这些问题：1）提高对管理数据中心的最新科学和工程研究的认识，2）提供研究和评估基础设施来测试和开发新方法，以解决数据中心效率低下的问题。数据中心。 BlueTool 将促进整体网络物理概念的使用，以促进节能和可持续数据中心的发展。它将利用亚利桑那州立大学 (ASU) 数据中心冷却技术和网络物理管理方面的最新研究进展，并为推进亚利桑那州立大学和其他地方该领域正在进行的研究提供协同作用。 BlueTool 将包括： (a) 一个在线工具，可以在物理布局、硬件和软件配置方面模拟数据中心的各种配置； (b) 由亚利桑那州立大学 IMPACT 实验室 (http://impact.asu.edu) 维护的研究中心和门户网站，提供各种可更新档案的数据服务，包括功率和热剖面、多尺度低复杂性热和电源模型、数据中心管理方法和软件。来自学术界和工业界的研究人员将能够使用 BlueTool 的在线咨询服务，通过新开发的技术提高传统或现有配置的计算性能和能耗。