Yanpei Chen and Archana Sulochana Ganapathi and Randy H. Katz

EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley

Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2010-36

March 29, 2010

http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2010/EECS-2010-36.pdf

Compression enables us to shift the computation load from IO to CPU. In modern datacenters where energy efficiency is a growing concern, the benefits of using compression have not been completely exploited. We develop a decision algorithm that helps MapReduce users identify when and where to use compression. For some jobs, using compression gives energy savings of up to 60%. As MapReduce represents a common computation framework for Internet datacenters, we believe our findings will provide signficant impact on improving datacenter energy efficiency.

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BibTeX citation:

@techreport{Chen:EECS-2010-36,
    Author= {Chen, Yanpei and Ganapathi, Archana Sulochana and Katz, Randy H.},
    Title= {To Compress or Not To Compress - Compute vs. IO tradeoffs for MapReduce Energy Efficiency},
    Year= {2010},
    Month= {Mar},
    Url= {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2010/EECS-2010-36.html},
    Number= {UCB/EECS-2010-36},
    Abstract= {Compression enables us to shift the computation load from IO to CPU. In modern datacenters where energy efficiency is a growing concern, the benefits of using compression have not been completely exploited. We develop a decision algorithm that helps MapReduce users identify when and where to use compression. For some jobs, using compression gives energy savings of up to 60%. As MapReduce represents a common computation framework for Internet datacenters, we believe our findings will provide signficant impact on improving datacenter energy efficiency.},
}

EndNote citation:

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%A Chen, Yanpei 
%A Ganapathi, Archana Sulochana 
%A Katz, Randy H. 
%T To Compress or Not To Compress - Compute vs. IO tradeoffs for MapReduce Energy Efficiency
%I EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley
%D 2010
%8 March 29
%@ UCB/EECS-2010-36
%U http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2010/EECS-2010-36.html
%F Chen:EECS-2010-36