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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2016
City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, HK;
Jing Fu, New Territories, HK;
William Morgan, Balwyn, AU;
Jun Guo, New Territories, HK;
Moshe Zukerman, New Territories, HK;
Wing Ming Eric Wong, Kowloon, HK;
City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, HK;
Abstract
A method for operating a server farm with a plurality of servers operably connected with each other includes: receiving a job request of a computational task to be handled by the server farm; determining, from the plurality of servers, one or more servers operable to accept the job request; determining a respective effective energy efficiency value associated with at least the one or more servers; and assigning the computational task to a server with the highest effective energy efficiency value. The effective energy efficiency value is defined by a service rate of the respective server divided by a difference between an energy consumption rate value when the respective server is busy and an energy consumption rate value when the respective server is idle. The present invention also relates to a server farm operated by the method.