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Systems and methods for attributing an amount of power consumption to a workload

  • US 8,751,844 B2
  • Filed: 09/24/2009
  • Issued: 06/10/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for attributing a portion of a level of electrical power consumption by a first server to a workload executing on the first server, the method comprising:

  • determining a level of electrical power consumption of a first server by a plurality of workloads executing on the first server;

    identifying a level of load placed on the first server by a workload of the plurality of workloads executing on the first server, as a fraction of total load placed on the first server by the plurality of workloads;

    attributing, by a power apportionment module, a portion of the level of electrical power consumption of the first server to the workload, based on the identified level of load;

    providing, by the power apportionment module, an identification of the portion of the level of electrical power consumption attributed to the workload of the plurality of workloads; and

    migrating the workload to a second server based on the identification of the attributed portion of the level of electrical power consumption.

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