Patent ID: 8589932

Claim:
A method of data processing workload control in a data center, the data center comprising computers whose operations consume power and a workload controller comprising automated computing machinery that controls the overall data processing workload in the data center, the data processing workload comprising a plurality of specific data processing jobs, the method comprising: scheduling, by the workload controller in dependence upon power performance information, the data processing jobs for execution upon the computers in the data center, the power performance information comprising power consumption at a plurality of power-conserving states for each computer in the data center that executes data processing jobs, wherein the scheduling includes querying a power performance information database to determine: existence of any average power data for a particular data processing job on any computer in the data center; and in the history of collecting power performance information, number of computers in the data center having the data processing job scheduled on them; and dispatching, by the workload controller, the data processing jobs as scheduled for execution on computers in the data center based on the determination.