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How does Docker affect energy consumption? Evaluating workloads in and out of Docker containers
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Santos, E.A., McLean, C., Solinas, C., Hindle, Abram
Context: Virtual machines provide isolation of services at the cost of hypervisors and more resource usage. This spurred the growth of systems like Docker that enable single hosts to isolate several applications, similar to VMs, within a low-overhead abstraction called containers. Motivation:...
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If you bill it, they will pay: Energy consumption in the cloud will be irrelevant until directly billed for
Download2018
Don’t leave the lights on! One reason we take energy consumption seriously is because we are directly billed for it. If one leaves the heat on high over night the effect is noticeable on the next bill. Yet as granular as cloud computing billing can be in terms of resources and quality of service,...