… server farms with a setup cost. This model is common in manufacturing systems and data
centers, where there is a cost to turn servers … can model a server farm with setup costs using the …

… the cost of consumed electricity. In order to reduce the number of variables, we assume the
server farm is composed of 250 servers … The power consumption of each four core server …

… can be saved by turning idle servers off, turning on an off server incurs a significant cost.
The setup cost takes the form of both a time delay, which we refer to as the setup time, and an …

… Mitrani [19, 18] considers a model for server farms with setup cost. The author considers the
case where group of reserve servers are shutdown concurrently if the workload is lower than …

… Server farms, or data centers, are … server farm may contain thousands of computers,
which require large amounts of power to run and to keep cool (not to mention the hidden costs …

… often deals with various issues such as reducing cooling costs, minimizing idle power …
2.1 Experimental setup Our experimental setup consists of a server farm with up to fourteen …

… on idling costs and setup costs, and do not consider the aspect of setup times (as in (CitationGandhi
et al., 2010a)). For this case we study, for both discounted and average cost, the …

… As said above, however, there is a setup cost (in terms of time… As said above, to reduce the
server farm power consumption… using the SPTF discipline in server farm systems, the Sfdebtto …

… We use real parameters to setup the system. For example, we parameterize the disk with the
values … nodes is the best compromise between efficacy and cost for achieving scalable Web …

… Having them as the smallest unit of auto-scaling means that we incur the least cost. As our
performance result shows, a single c1.medium instance is able to load balance traffic up to its …