Dr. Natarajan Gautam

Associate Professor Natarajan Gautam and Assistant Professor Lewis Ntaimo, faculty members in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, have been awarded a two-year, $240,000 grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Service Enterprise Systems program for their project “EAGER: Reducing Energy Consumption in Data Centers.”

This grant provides funding to develop models and methodologies for reducing energy consumption in data centers to the maximum extent possible without degrading the quality of service.

Dr. Lewis Ntaimo

The two researchers will integrate stochastic optimization and stochastic optimal control algorithms to determine: a) the optimal set of meta-applications for virtualization in multiple servers; b) the optimal strategy to control server speeds by dynamic voltage scaling; c) optimal rules for real time cluster sizing.

The algorithms will be developed and integrated under a unified multitime scale platform to exploit their benefits. These methodologies will be used to combine pro-active planning with real time control to reduce energy consumption, operating costs and greenhouse gas emissions from data centers.

Submitted by Katherine Edwards, kedwards@tamu.edu

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