Datacenter Modeling and Simulation with Focus on Energy Efficiency and Green Energy Integration

Improving energy efficiency of datacenters and studies of green energy integration into the datacenters are important research problems. Recent studies include design of power management mechanisms, scheduling policies, and efficient cooling methods. However, deploying a new policy in a datacenter and verifying its effects is time consuming and often infeasible. Therefore, it is important to effectively and accurately model and simulate datacenter environments. This paper provides a survey and comparison of recent simulation platforms for datacenters. Additionally, it presents a case study of how datacenter simulation enables design and evaluation of algorithms for using green energy to improve the datacenter