Towards deploying decommissioned mobile devices as cheap energy-efficient compute nodes

Mohammad Shahrad, David Wentzlaff

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Abstract

The performance of mobile phone processors has been steadily increasing, causing the performance gap between server and mobile processors to narrow with mobile processors sporting superior performance per unit energy. Fueled by the slowing of Moore’s Law, the overall performance of single-chip mobile and server processors have likewise plateaued. These trends and the glut of used and partially broken smartphones which become environmental e-waste motivate creating cloud servers out of decommissioned mobile phones. This work proposes creating a compute dense server built out of used and partially broken smartphones (e.g. screen can be broken). This work evaluates the total cost of ownership (TCO) benefit of using servers based on decommissioned mobile devices and analyzes some of the architectural design trade-offs in creating such servers.

Original languageEnglish (US)
StatePublished - Jan 1 2017
Event9th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing, HotCloud 2017 - Santa Clara, United States
Duration: Jul 10 2017Jul 11 2017

Conference

Conference9th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing, HotCloud 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySanta Clara
Period7/10/177/11/17

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Software

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