Energy Saving Strategy of Power System Cluster Based on Container Virtualization

With the continuous development of power grids, the scale of supercomputing clusters has also gradually increased to carry a large number of power system simulation calculations, and the problem of high energy consumption has appeared. To solve this problem, we propose a container virtualization-based supercomputing cluster for power system. We analyze the impact of containers on power simulation calculations and compare the energy consumption effects of various container scheduling and migration algorithms on clusters. Experiments show that compared to virtual machines with hypervisor, which consumes massive resources and reduces performances by 28.4%, the performance degradation of container on power simulation calculation is 1.3%, which can be ignored. The energy consumption of load-concentration or resource-and-load-balance container scheduling algorithms is up to 4.0% lower and at least 2.2% lower than other algorithms. In container migration, the method combining autoregressive model with most-correlation and resource-andload-balance algorithms is better than other methods, which not only minimizes energy consumption, but also has lowest number of migrations and SLA violations. Experiments verify the feasibility and advantages of container migration in power system computing clusters.