Cooling energy integration in SimGrid

Abstract

Cooling energy consumption is one of the most significant parts of total energy consumed by distributed systems. However, little effort has been spent so far to integrate the cooling energy in simulators that are used for simulating distributed systems. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an integration of cooling energy consumption in a widely-known simulator of distributed systems namely SimGrid. Here, we present necessary energy models that are needed to measure cooling energy required for a distributed system. Subsequently, we perform necessary modifications in SimGrid to integrate the models. We perform rigorous simulation over different settings using our integrated modules of SimGrid. Alongside, we perform real experimentation using settings similar to that used in our simulation. We compare our simulation results against that we find from real experimentation. The comparison reveals applicability of our cooling energy integration in SimGrid for simulating diversified distributed systems.