{"id":170430,"date":"2010-02-23T13:37:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T13:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/joulemeter-computational-energy-measurement-and-optimization\/"},"modified":"2017-06-16T14:49:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T21:49:41","slug":"joulemeter-computational-energy-measurement-and-optimization","status":"publish","type":"msr-project","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/joulemeter-computational-energy-measurement-and-optimization\/","title":{"rendered":"Joulemeter: Computational Energy Measurement and Optimization"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"asset-content\">\n<p>The public release of Joulemeter is deprecated. We apologize for any inconvenience.The Joulemeter project provides a modeling tool to measure the energy usage of virtual machines (VMs), servers, desktops, laptops, and even individual software applications running on a computer. The visibility provided by Joulemeter is being used to improve power provisioning costs for data centers, virtualized power budgeting, desktop energy optimizations, and mobile battery management.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Note: Joulemeter is <em>no longer<\/em> available for public download. Similar energy estimation capability is now available through <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/visualstudioalm\/archive\/2013\/07\/10\/energy-consumption-tool-in-visual-studio-2013.aspx\">Visual Studio<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> (<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aLV1XJFgrXw\">video<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>).<\/p>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"moray-accordion\" data-show=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div\n\t\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"btn-group align-items-center mb-g float-sm-right\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\trole=\"group\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-mount=\"collapse-controls\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-bi-aN=\"accordion-collapse-controls\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-target=\"#accordion-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"btn btn-link m-0\" aria-disabled=\"false\" aria-pressed=\"false\" data-action=\"expand\" type=\"button\" data-bi-cN=\"Expand all\">Expand all<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span aria-hidden=\"true\"> | <\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"btn btn-link m-0\" aria-disabled=\"false\" aria-pressed=\"false\" data-action=\"collapse\" type=\"button\" data-bi-cN=\"Collapse all\">Collapse all<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"accordion\" id=\"accordion-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"m-0\">\n\t\t\t<h4 class=\"accordion-header\">\n\t\t\t\t<button\n\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"btn btn-collapse m-0\"\n\t\t\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-mount=\"collapse\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-target=\"#collapse-2\"\n\t\t\t\t\taria-expanded=\"false\"\n\t\t\t\t\taria-controls=\"collapse-2\">\n\t\tAbout Joulemeter\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t<\/h4>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"collapse\" id=\"collapse-2\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2>About Joulemeter<\/h2>\n<p>Energy costs have become increasingly important to computing, since they directly impact the power provisioning cost for\u00a0computing infrastructures, the operating expense for both data centers and enterprise buildings, as well as battery life for laptops and mobile devices.<\/p>\n<p>The Joulemeter project focuses on the following aspects related to energy optimization:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Modeling<\/strong><em>\u00a0\u2014 <\/em>Joulemeter provides a software tool to estimate the energy usage of a virtual machine (VM), a computer, server, or software application. It also allows modeling the impact of power management of various components such as the CPU, screen, memory, and storage on total power use. Many of these power measurements are not possible in hardware since software components such as VMs do not have a single wire supplying their power where a hardware power meter may be installed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Optimization<\/strong> <em>\u2014<\/em> We use the visibility provided by Joulemeter&#8217;s modeling techniques to improve power provisioning and consumption costs in various scenarios ranging from data centers, enterprise computing, and battery operated machines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Short Video: Introducing Joulemeter [3min 30sec]<\/p>\n<p>Detailed Video: <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Blogs\/Charles\/Aman-Kansal-Inside-Joulemeter\">Inside Joulemeter<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> [34 min]<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"m-0\">\n\t\t\t<h4 class=\"accordion-header\">\n\t\t\t\t<button\n\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"btn btn-collapse m-0\"\n\t\t\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-mount=\"collapse\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-target=\"#collapse-3\"\n\t\t\t\t\taria-expanded=\"false\"\n\t\t\t\t\taria-controls=\"collapse-3\">\n\t\tPower Modeling\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t<\/h4>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"collapse\" id=\"collapse-3\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2>Power Modeling<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Joulemeter estimates the energy usage of a VM, computer, or software by measuring the hardware resources (CPU, disk, memory, screen, etc.) being used and converting the resource usage to actual power usage based on automatically learned realistic power models.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"39cc6e45-4474-4d58-b9c9-553b7a52684d\" class=\"ImageBlock fn\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"Image39cc6e45-4474-4d58-b9c9-553b7a52684d\" title=\"Block diagram\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/joulemeter-blockdiag_sm.png\" alt=\"Block diagram\" \/><span id=\"ImageCaption39cc6e45-4474-4d58-b9c9-553b7a52684d\" class=\"ImageCaptionCoreCss ImageCaption\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Joulemeter can be used for gaining visibility into energy use and for making several power management and provisioning decisions in data centers, client computing, and software design.<\/p>\n<p>The technology is especially helpful for IT leaders managing power management settings, PC users who wish to get fine grained visibility into their computing energy use, and enthusiast developers who wish to leverage power measurement for optimizing their software and hosted service design for power usage. The fundamental concepts behind how the technology works are available in the paper,\u00a0Virtual Machine Power Metering and Provisioning.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"m-0\">\n\t\t\t<h4 class=\"accordion-header\">\n\t\t\t\t<button\n\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"btn btn-collapse m-0\"\n\t\t\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-mount=\"collapse\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-target=\"#collapse-4\"\n\t\t\t\t\taria-expanded=\"false\"\n\t\t\t\t\taria-controls=\"collapse-4\">\n\t\tPower Optimization\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t<\/h4>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"collapse\" id=\"collapse-4\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion-body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2>Power Optimization<\/h2>\n<p>The visibility provided by the Joulemeter modeling tool can be used to optimize power use in multiple scenarios. The measurement of VM power allows developing power budgeting techniques for virtualized data centers. Managing and tracking PC sleep, combined with remote wakeup, allows optimizing desktop power consumption in enterprise buildings. Separating the impact of hardware components on battery life allows users to trade-off power management settings for improving battery life and enables developers to make appropriate design trade-offs for their software applications. Details on many of these use cases are available in the Joulemeter research publications listed below.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The public release of Joulemeter is deprecated. We apologize for any inconvenience.The Joulemeter project provides a modeling tool to measure the energy usage of virtual machines (VMs), servers, desktops, laptops, and even individual software applications running on a computer. The visibility provided by Joulemeter is being used to improve power provisioning costs for data centers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"research-area":[13547],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-impact-theme":[],"msr-pillar":[],"class_list":["post-170430","msr-project","type-msr-project","status-publish","hentry","msr-research-area-systems-and-networking","msr-locale-en_us","msr-archive-status-active"],"msr_project_start":"2010-02-23","related-publications":[162794,162969,154130,154874,158034,158993,159008,159515,159520,161090,161125],"related-downloads":[],"related-videos":[],"related-groups":[],"related-events":[],"related-opportunities":[],"related-posts":[306176],"related-articles":[],"tab-content":[],"slides":[],"related-researchers":[],"msr_research_lab":[199565],"msr_impact_theme":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-project\/170430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/msr-project"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-project\/170430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234009,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-project\/170430\/revisions\/234009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"msr-research-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-area?post=170430"},{"taxonomy":"msr-locale","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-locale?post=170430"},{"taxonomy":"msr-impact-theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-impact-theme?post=170430"},{"taxonomy":"msr-pillar","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-pillar?post=170430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}