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.
Officials in the Turner College's Butler Center for Research and Economic Development recently put the finishing touches on an extensive report on trends in educational programs and occupations in the Columbus area. The report also includes data on business and technology trends. According to Fady Mansour , Director of the Butler Center, there are several key takeaways from the report regarding 10 occupational gaps that currently exist in the Columbus area. First, software development occupation exhibits the biggest labor shortage, with the report adding that the TSYS School has a bachelor's degree program in information technology along with a new AI track for the bachelor's degree in computer science, both of which can qualify students for this occupation. Other educational programs are in demand, such as computer programming and cloud computing. Second, there is a gap of 30 employees per year in general and operations management. This gap could be addressed by the Turn...

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