Paper Info
Title
Towards green data centers: A comparison of x86 and ARM architectures power efficiency
Abstract
Servers and clusters are fundamental building blocks of high performance computing systems and the IT infrastructure of many companies and institutions. This paper analyzes the feasibility of building servers based on low power computers through an experimental comparison of server applications running on x86 and ARM computer architectures. The comparison executed on web and database servers includes power usage, CPU load, temperature, request latencies and the number of requests handled by each tested system. Floating point performance and power usage are also evaluated. The use of ARM based systems has shown to be a good choice when power efficiency is needed without losing performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1016/j.jpdc.2012.08.005
J. Parallel Distrib. Comput.
Keywords
Field
DocType
floating point performance,power efficiency,arm architectures power efficiency,experimental comparison,power usage,high performance computing system,towards green data center,it infrastructure,cpu load,arm computer architecture,low power computer,fundamental building block,energy efficiency,cluster
Electrical efficiency,ARM architecture,x86,Floating point,Computer science,Server,Distributed computing,Supercomputer,Efficient energy use,Parallel computing,Database server,Operating system,Embedded system
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
72
12
0743-7315
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
16
0.75
12
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rafael Vidal Aroca1444.47
Luiz Marcos Garcia Gonçalves2445.88