LAWA: Loss-Aware Workload Assignment in Data Centers

Information technology (IT) equipment consumes a significant amount of power in data centers. As part of this consumption, there is significant wastage due to the power loss of servers. To date, workload assignment algorithms have not taken server power losses into account. In this paper, we find that focusing on server power losses in constructing a workload assignment algorithm may have a significant impact in reducing the power consumption of data centers. In particular, this savings may be significant as compared to the commonly employed approach of server consolidation.