A Study on the Energetic Viability of Single Board Computers for Cloud Computing Scenarios

[EN] The following document explores the viability of the usage of consumer-grade, ARM-based single board computers as a power saving alternative to the traditional monolithic x64-full-server based approach.By taking advantage of several capabilities provided by such devices, such as low cost, low power consumption and low on-time, the authors finally propose a scalable, energy-efficient, ARM-based cloud infrastructure.To that end, we start analyzing the current offerings in terms of capabilities, net cost, processing power and power consumption, comparing them with the relevant server-oriented offerings.We subsequently explore the adequacy of several metrics to model on-budget raw data processing, considering full-system wattage under nominal usage conditions.The low initial investment and long-term affordability of this approach results in quite a relevant case of application to Edge Cloud computing scenarios.The current work has been partially funded by the Ministerio de Educacion, Cultura y Deporte of Spain.Verdugo, P.; Salvachúa, J.; Huecas, G. (2018). A Study on the Energetic Viability of Single Board Computers for Cloud Computing Scenarios. En XIII Jornadas de Ingeniería telemática (JITEL 2017). Libro de actas. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 176-181. https://doi.org/10.4995/JITEL2017.2017.6504OCS17618

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