As part of our research in to Computing for the Future ofthe Planet we are working on a new computing framework that will automatically relocate workloads to chase surplus energy which would otherwise be wasted. Energy is a significant financial and environmental cost for datacentre operators. Our framework will migrate computing jobs to energy sources whilst maintaining service level agreement. We believe this can be beneficial in absorbing intermittent and distributed generation from renewable source in addition to exploiting geographic and temporal variation in electricity prices. Predicting the cost of migration is an integral part to making an informed decision to where a workload is relocated.

1. Sherif Akoush, Ripduman Sohan, Bogdan Roman, Andrew Rice, Andy Hopper, "Activity Based Sector Synchronisation: Efficient Transfer of Disk-State For WAN Live Migration," The 19th Annual Meeting of the IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS'11), Singapore, Jul 2011

2. Sherif Akoush, Ripduman Sohan, Andrew Rice, Andrew W. Moore, Andy Hopper, "Free Lunch: Exploiting Renewable Energy For Computing," the 13th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HOTOS'XIII), NAPA, CL, USA, May 2011

3. Sherif Akoush, Ripduman Sohan, Andrew Rice, Andrew W. Moore, Andy Hopper, "Predicting the Performance of Virtual Machine Migration," The 18th Annual Meeting of the IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS'10), Miami, FL, USA, Aug 2010

4. Andrew Rice, Sherif Akoush, Andy Hopper, "Failure is an option," Technical Report, MSR-TR-2008-61, Microsoft Research Technical Report, May 2008