Valley Filling Workload

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• Variation on Follow the workload

Dynamic Deferral of Workload for Capacity Provisioning in Data Centers - Adnan
The energy cost function
consists of two parts: operating cost and switching cost.

• We use the flexibility of deferral for capacity provisioning
to reduce energy consumption.
– Defer some of the workload to reduce variation in the workload.
[Adnan et al. IGCC, 2013]
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Offline Optimal

VFW($\delta$)