Title :
Using Low-power Embedded Microcontrollers as Web Servers
Author :
Mohaghegh, Navid ; Aboelaze, Mokhtar
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., York Univ., Toronto, ON, Canada
Abstract :
Power consumption of server farms is becoming a huge issue in the server operation community. The cost of powering the farm (both to operate servers and to cool them) is surpassing the amortized server cost. In this research, we investigate the use of low-power embedded controllers as servers. We built a small cluster of 4 embedded controller boards and compared its performance to a more traditional (and more powerful) server. We report on our findings with respect to the system configuration and performance.
Keywords :
Internet; file servers; microcontrollers; performance evaluation; power aware computing; Web servers; embedded controller boards; low-power embedded microcontrollers; power consumption; server farms; Energy consumption; Microcontrollers; Power demand; Throughput; Time factors; Web servers; Low power architecture; web server;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA), 2012 IEEE 10th International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Leganes
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1631-6
DOI :
10.1109/ISPA.2012.137
