Energy efficiency for MapReduce workloads: an in-depth study

Boliang Feng, Jiaheng Lu, Yongluan Zhou, Nan Yang

15 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Energy efficiency has emerged as a crucial optimization goal in data centers. MapReduce has become a popular and even fashionable distributed processingmo del for parallel computingin data centers. Hadoop is an open-source implementation of MapReduce, which is widely used for short jobs requiring low response time. In this paper, we conduct an indepth study of the energy efficiency for MapReduce workloads. We identify four factors that affect the energy efficiency of MapReduce. In particular, we make experiments over four typical MapReduce workloads that represent different kinds of application scenarios and measure the energy consumption with varied cluster parameters. Our key findingis that with well-tuned system parameters and adaptive resource configurations, MapReduce cluster can achieve both performance improvement and good energy saving simultaneously in some instances, which is surprisingly contrast to previous works on cluster-level energy conservation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the Twenty-Third Australasian Database Conference
EditorsRui Zhang, Yanchun Zhang
Number of pages10
PublisherAustralian Computer Society
Publication dateJan 2012
Pages61-70
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-921770-05-0
Publication statusPublished - Jan 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event23rd Australasian Database Conference - Melbourne, Australia
Duration: 31 Jan 20123 Feb 2012
Conference number: 23

Conference

Conference23rd Australasian Database Conference
Number23
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CityMelbourne
Period31/01/201203/02/2012
SeriesConferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology
Volume124
ISSN1445-1336

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