Patent ID: 8751660
Filing Date: 2014-06-10
Classification: F24F,H04L

Abstract:
1. An apparatus comprising: a receiving unit configured to receive a program of an energy saving service from a service provider; an acquisition unit configured to acquire external information related to the energy saving service; an estimation unit configured to estimate a resource consumption of respective computer resources of a plurality of servers to execute the program, based on the external information; and a selection unit configured to select at least one server to be provided with the program from the plurality of servers, based on the resource consumption; wherein the receiving unit further receives meta information from the service provider, the meta information including a second resource consumption and a variation, the second resource consumption of the respective computer resources of the plurality of servers to execute the program comprising an estimate from the service provider, the variation being an amount that the second resource consumption varies when the external information satisfies a specific condition, and the estimation unit estimates a sum of the second resource consumption and the variation as the resource consumption when the external information satisfies the specific condition.