Fast demand response with datacenter loads

Josiah McClurg; Raghuraman Mudumbai; Joseph Hall

doi:10.1109/ISGT.2016.7781219

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Fast demand response with datacenter loads

Josiah McClurg, Raghuraman Mudumbai and Joseph Hall

2016 IEEE Power & Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT), pp.1-5

09/2016

DOI: 10.1109/ISGT.2016.7781219

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Abstract

This paper shows how datacenters can provide value to the electric grid by functioning as fast and precisely-controllable loads. We discuss the substantial grid-side benefits available from high-penetration, finely-controllable, and fast controllable loads like datacenters. We then measure the power ramp rate and power control precision of an example compute cluster, and last experimentally demonstrate realtime power setpoint tracking with a simple distributed algorithm. These results are an important step toward implementing datacenter demand response at a sub-minute timescale.

Computers

Distributed algorithms

Frequency control

Load management

Power control

Power demand

Servers

Details

Title: Subtitle: Fast demand response with datacenter loads
Creators: Josiah McClurg - University of Iowa
Raghuraman Mudumbai - University of Iowa
Joseph Hall - University of Iowa
Resource Type: Conference proceeding
Publication Details: 2016 IEEE Power & Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT), pp.1-5
DOI: 10.1109/ISGT.2016.7781219
eISSN: 2472-8152
Publisher: IEEE
Language: English
Date published: 09/2016
Academic Unit: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Record Identifier: 9984197543802771

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