Round Robin Scheduling Not Power-Efficient

Via_Patrino writes "While having to distribute load between several servers, round robin, or any other technique that balances load equally, is the most common approach because of its simplicity. But a recent study shows that trying to accumulate load on some servers can improve energy efficiency because the other servers will be mostly unused during off-peak periods and then able to make better use of power saving methods. Specially, where load involves lots of concurrent power-consuming TCP connections, which was the case in the study, a new load-balancing algorithm resulted in an overall 30% power savings. Here's the paper (PDF)."

Comments

Another Scheduling Flamewar

[dsginter]

I don't think that we should go down this road again - why don't we talk about religion or politics, instead?

Re:Another Scheduling Flamewar

[mcmonkey]

I don't think that we should go down this road again - why don't we talk about religion or politics, instead?

Can we just stick to politics? Why spoil a perfectly good Friday with a vi vs emacs debate?

Mod parent up !

[Adolf Hitroll]

For he's got a life and doesn't focus on computer stuff.
I salute you, Sir.

Re:Logical conclusion

[Colin Smith]

Good luck with that. Really.

Well, duh...

[JamesP]

Everybody knows that it should be Round Batman, it is soo much better :P