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Enabling Sustainable Clouds: The Case for Virtualizing the Energy System
Noman Bashir, Tian Guo, Mohammad Hajiesmaili +5
Cloud platforms' growing energy demand and carbon emissions are raising concern about their environmental sustainability. The current approach to enabling sustainable clouds focuse…
Peak Forecasting for Battery-based Energy Optimizations in Campus Microgrids
Akhil Soman, Amee Trivedi, David Irwin +3
Battery-based energy storage has emerged as an enabling technology for a variety of grid energy optimizations, such as peak shaving and cost arbitrage. A key component of battery-d…
No Reservations: A First Look at Amazon's Reserved Instance Marketplace
Pradeep Ambati, David Irwin, Prashant Shenoy
Cloud users can significantly reduce their cost (by up to 60\%) by reserving virtual machines (VMs) for long periods (1 or 3 years) rather than acquiring them on demand. Unfortunat…
Emission-aware Energy Storage Scheduling for a Greener Grid
Rishikesh Jha, Stephen Lee, Srinivasan Iyengar +3
Reducing our reliance on carbon-intensive energy sources is vital for reducing the carbon footprint of the electric grid. Although the grid is seeing increasing deployments of clea…
SunDown: Model-driven Per-Panel Solar Anomaly Detection for Residential Arrays
Menghong Feng, Noman Bashir, Prashant Shenoy +2
There has been significant growth in both utility-scale and residential-scale solar installations in recent years, driven by rapid technology improvements and falling prices. Unlik…
Hedge Your Bets: Optimizing Long-term Cloud Costs by Mixing VM Purchasing Options
Pradeep Ambati, Noman Bashir, David Irwin +2
Cloud platforms offer the same VMs under many purchasing options that specify different costs and time commitments, such as on-demand, reserved, sustained-use, scheduled reserve, t…