Abstract
Data centers, hosting centers, and Internet companies typically rely on large clusters of computers to interface with users and store data. The computational, networking, and cooling infrastructures of these organizations consume significant amounts of power and energy. Research on power and energy conservation for these systems can have several benefits. In this paper, we motivate this research direction, point out a few of the related issues and challenges, overview the small body of previous work, and suggest several specific research avenues that are being addressed in the Rutgers DARK Laboratory