In a new study appearing in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, TSYS School
assistant professor of computer science Yi
Zhou and colleagues from Jinan University (China) and the University of
Exeter (United Kingdom) examine the role of data replica placement in the
mushrooming growth of data volumes. As
they indicate, data
replica placement plays a key role in promoting the energy efficiency and
service quality of data-intensive data centers. Data replica placement is the process of placing duplicate copies of data in the most
appropriate node in a data grid. The study
by Zhou and his colleagues assert that the existing data placement strategies mainly focus
on storage performance improvement or service quality enhancement in data
centers, but ignore the ubiquitous issue of heat recirculation. To fill this void, the new study proposes a
thermal-aware data replica placement strategy called TADRP, which aims to
improve cooling efficiency and minimize the total power consumption of
data-intensive data centers. This
strategy works to place data replicas in disk sequences in a way that conserves
cooling costs, total power consumption and execution time. In their comparison of TADRP to four
alternative strategies, they find that TADRP reduces cooling costs by 14.7% to
61.7%, and total power consumption by 19.2% to 55.1%, both without undesirable
performance lags.
The long-awaited journal review being conducted by the Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) has been released and there are a number of news items that relate to faculty in the Turner College. One of these is the ABDC's decision to now include Compensation and Benefits Review in its journal rankings. This is big news for the Turner College as its editor, Phil Bryant , is a professor of management in the Turner College. The ABDC is proposing that the journal enter its system for the first time as a C-rated journal. Acting Turner College Dean Tesa Leonce sits on the journal's editorial board, while Turner College management professor Mark James has guest-edited an issue of the journal. Published by SAGE, Compensation & Benefits Review is the leading journal for senior executives and professionals who design, implement, evaluate and communicate compensation and benefits policies and programs. The journal supports compensation and benefits specialists and academic ex...

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