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ISCA 2013 TUTORIAL
COST-ET: An Estimation and Design Space Exploration Tool for Datacenters TCO
Tel Aviv, Israel, June 23 - 24, 2013




Tutorial Objective

The objective of this tutorial is to introduce you to a new tool for estimating and exploring the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for datacenters. This tutorial targets students and researchers involved or would like to understand and investigate the datacenter design space.

COST-ET is an estimation and exploration tool to provide qualitative trends of datacenter design choices (servers, racks configurations, etc.) on the total cost of ownership and the environmental impact. During the tutorial we will briefly describe the inputs and outputs of the tool, give an explanation of the framework and explain in detail how the tool can be used with-in wrappers to provide extensive design space exploration for various datacenter parameters.


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This tool has been developed by Marios Kleanthous, Damien Hardy, Isidoros Sideris and Yiannakis Sazeides. The research leading to this tool is supported by the European Commission FP7 project "Energy-conscious 3D Server-on-Chip for Green Cloud Services (Project No:247779 "EuroCloud")".

Organizers:
  • Yiannakis Sazeides - University of Cyprus
  • Emre Ozer - ARM Cambridge
  • Marios Kleanthous - University of Cyprus


Preliminary program

Time Topic
13:45 - 15:15 Introduction to TCO, COST-ET overview and validation
15:15 - 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 - 16:45 COST-ET usage and case studies
16:45 - 17:00 Questions and Discussion




Related publication

An Analytical Framework for Estimating TCO and Exploring Data Center Design Space -
D. Hardy, M. Kleanthous, I. Sideris, A. Saidi, E. Ozer and Y. Sazeides
IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS 2013)
April 2013

Optimizing Data-Center TCO with Scale-Out Processors -
B. Grot, D. Hardy, P. Lotfi-Kamran, B. Falsafi, C. Nicopoulos and Y. Sazeides
IEEE Micro, Volume 32 (5), Pages 52-63
September - October 2012

EETCO: a tool to Estimate and Explore the implications of datacenter design choices on the TCO and the environmental impact -
D. Hardy, I. Sideris, A. Saidi and Y. Sazeides
Workshop on Energy-efficient Computing for a Sustainable World (held in conjunction with MICRO44)
December 2011