Cost and Energy Reduction Evaluation for ARM Based Web Servers

Author

Svanfeldt-Winter, Olle ; Lafond, Sébastien ; Lilius, Johan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Technol., Abo Akademi Univ., Turku, Finland

fYear

2011

fDate

12-14 Dec. 2011

Firstpage

480

Lastpage

487

Abstract

Direct energy and energy dependent infrastructure costs are major contributors to the total cost of a data center. This paper evaluates the energy saving potential of the ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor, compared to more conventional Intel Xeon processors, when running certain server applications. The presented measurements show a three to eleven times better energy efficiency for ARM Cortex-A9 processors compared to Intel Xeon processors. Using these measurements as input to the cost model for a typical data center presented by Hamilton, we analyze the resulting cost reductions.

Keywords

Internet; computer centres; cost reduction; energy conservation; file servers; microprocessor chips; power aware computing; ARM based Web servers; ARM cortex-A9 MPCore processor; ARM cortex-A9 processors; Intel Xeon processors; cost model; cost reduction; data center; direct energy; energy dependent infrastructure costs; energy efficiency; energy reduction evaluation; energy saving potential; server applications; Benchmark testing; Cooling; Energy consumption; Hardware; Kernel; Power demand; Servers; ARM; Apache HTTP server; Computing; Energy Efficiency; Erlang; SIP-Proxy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC), 2011 IEEE Ninth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0006-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DASC.2011.93

Filename

6118745