abstract = "The increasing demand for computational resources has
led to a significant growth of data centre facilities.
A major concern has appeared regarding energy
efficiency and consumption in servers and data centres.
The use of flexible and scalable server power models is
a must in order to enable proactive energy optimisation
strategies. This paper proposes the use of Evolutionary
Computation to obtain a model for server dynamic power
consumption. To accomplish this, we collect a
significant number of server performance counters for a
wide range of sequential and parallel applications, and
obtain a model via Genetic Programming techniques. Our
methodology enables the unsupervised generation of
models for arbitrary server architectures, in a way
that is robust to the type of application being
executed in the server. With our generated models, we
are able to predict the overall server power
consumption for arbitrary workloads, outperforming
previous approaches in the state-of-the-art.",