TY - GEN
T1 - Quantitative musings on the feasibility of smartphone clouds
AU - Chen, Chen
AU - Ehsan, Moussa
AU - Sion, Radu
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/7/7
Y1 - 2015/7/7
N2 - 'Green' and its 'low power' cousin are the new hot spots in computing. In cloud data centers, at scale, ideas of deploying low-power ARM architectures or even large numbers of extremely 'wimpy' nodes [1, 2] seem increasingly appealing. Skeptics on the other hand maintain that we cannot get more than what we pay for and no free lunches can be had. In this paper we explore these theses and provide insights into the power-performance trade-off at scale for 'wimpy', back-to basics, power-efficient RISC architectures. We use ARM as modern proxy for these and quantify the cost/performance ratio precisely-enough to allow for a broader conclusion. We then offer an intuition as to why this may still hold in 2030.
AB - 'Green' and its 'low power' cousin are the new hot spots in computing. In cloud data centers, at scale, ideas of deploying low-power ARM architectures or even large numbers of extremely 'wimpy' nodes [1, 2] seem increasingly appealing. Skeptics on the other hand maintain that we cannot get more than what we pay for and no free lunches can be had. In this paper we explore these theses and provide insights into the power-performance trade-off at scale for 'wimpy', back-to basics, power-efficient RISC architectures. We use ARM as modern proxy for these and quantify the cost/performance ratio precisely-enough to allow for a broader conclusion. We then offer an intuition as to why this may still hold in 2030.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84941219684
U2 - 10.1109/CCGrid.2015.115
DO - 10.1109/CCGrid.2015.115
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84941219684
T3 - Proceedings - 2015 IEEE/ACM 15th International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing, CCGrid 2015
SP - 535
EP - 544
BT - Proceedings - 2015 IEEE/ACM 15th International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing, CCGrid 2015
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 15th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing, CCGrid 2015
Y2 - 4 May 2015 through 7 May 2015
ER -