Deep reinforcement learning towards real-world dynamic thermal management of data centers

Q Zhang, W Zeng, Q Lin, CB Chng, CK Chui, PS Lee - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Deep Reinforcement Learning has been increasingly researched for Dynamic
Thermal Management in Data Centers. However, existing works typically evaluate the …

DRL-S: Toward safe real-world learning of dynamic thermal management in data center

Q Zhang, CB Chng, K Chen, PS Lee… - Expert Systems with …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Deep Reinforcement Learning has been researched for Dynamic Thermal
Management in Data Centers. An objective of Dynamic Thermal Management is to minimize …

Optimizing data center energy efficiency via event-driven deep reinforcement learning

Y Ran, X Zhou, H Hu, Y Wen - IEEE Transactions on Services …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To reduce the skyrocketing energy consumption of data centers, the prevailing approaches
adopt the time-driven manner to control IT and cooling subsystems. These methods suffer …

SafeCool: safe and energy-efficient cooling management in data centers with model-based reinforcement learning

J Wan, Y Duan, X Gui, C Liu, L Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optimizing the cooling system plays a central role for capping the data center power
consumption. However, the performance of traditional cooling management strategies is not …

Transforming cooling optimization for green data center via deep reinforcement learning

Y Li, Y Wen, D Tao, K Guan - IEEE transactions on cybernetics, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Data center (DC) plays an important role to support services, such as e-commerce and cloud
computing. The resulting energy consumption from this growing market has drawn …

GreenDRL: managing green datacenters using deep reinforcement learning

K Zhang, P Wang, N Gu, TD Nguyen - … of the 13th Symposium on Cloud …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Managing datacenters to maximize efficiency and sustain-ability is a complex and
challenging problem. In this work, we explore the use of deep reinforcement learning (RL) to …

Jointly optimizing the IT and cooling systems for data center energy efficiency based on multi-agent deep reinforcement learning

C Chi, K Ji, A Marahatta, P Song, F Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
With the development and application of cloud computing, the increasing amount of data
centers has resulted in huge energy consumption and severe environmental problems …

Reinforcement learning testbed for power-consumption optimization

T Moriyama, G De Magistris, M Tatsubori… - … and Applications for …, 2018 - Springer
Common approaches to control a data-center cooling system rely on approximated
system/environment models that are built upon the knowledge of mechanical cooling and …

Energy saving evaluation of an energy efficient data center using a model-free reinforcement learning approach

MHB Mahbod, CB Chng, PS Lee, CK Chui - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
To reduce cooling energy consumption, data centers are recommended to raise temperature
setpoints of server intake. However, in tropical climates, Data Center operators are still found …

Toward physics-guided safe deep reinforcement learning for green data center cooling control

R Wang, X Zhang, X Zhou, Y Wen… - 2022 ACM/IEEE 13th …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has shown good performance in tackling Markov
decision process (MDP) problems. As DRL opti-mizes a long-term reward, it is a promising …