Speaker: Samir Khuller

Affiliation: University of Maryland College Park

Title: To do or not to do: scheduling to minimize energy

Abstract:

Traditional scheduling algorithms, especially those involving job scheduling

on parallel machines, make the assumption that the machines are always

available and try to schedule jobs to minimize specific job related metrics.

Since modern data centers consume massive amounts of energy, we consider job

scheduling problems that take energy consumption into account, turning

machines off, especially during periods of low demand. The ensuing problems

relate very closely to classical covering problems such as capacitated set

cover, and we discuss several recent results in this regard.
(This is talk covers two papers, and is joint work with Jessica Chang, Hal Gabow

and Koyel Mukherjee.)