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Improving Packing Algorithms for Server Consolidation

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Overview Minimizing the number of servers and preparing sufficient resources are contradictory requirements in server consolidation. These requirements can be formalized as a variant of the bin packing problem, which is known to be NP-hard. The least-loaded, a load-balancing algorithm, is applied to the problem and compared to the classical First-Fit Decreasing algorithm designed to address the bin packing problem. The technique of improving the algorithms is then presented.

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Publisher	NEC	File Format	PDF
Date Published	December 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Software Engineering, Server Consolidation

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