Summary: Elas%cTree: Saving Energy in
Data Center Networks
Brandon Heller (Stanford)
Srini Seetharaman (Deutsche Telekom R&D, Los Altos)
Priya Mahadevan (HewleG-Packard Labs, Palo Alto)
Yiannis Yiakoumis (Stanford)
Puneet Sharma (HewleG-Packard Labs, Palo Alto)
Sujata Banerjee (HewleG-Packard Labs, Palo Alto)
Nick McKeown (Stanford)
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Network Power Consump%on: 6B kWh in 2006!
~267K average size homes
$50M a month
a ginormous amount of CO2
2x increase projected for 2011
48-port Switch
Power Meter
~150W nothing connected
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Source: Akella, Aditya - Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin at Madison

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences