Towards green data centers: A comparison of x86 and ARM architectures power efficiency

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Volumn 72, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1770-1780

  Aroca, Rafael Vidal ^a   Gonçalves, Luiz Marcos Garcia ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cluster; Energy efficiency; Low power; Performance evaluation; Power usage

Indexed keywords

ARM ARCHITECTURE; ARM-BASED SYSTEMS; CLUSTER; DATA CENTERS; DATA-BASE SERVERS; EXPERIMENTAL COMPARISON; FLOATING POINTS; FUNDAMENTAL BUILDING BLOCKS; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SYSTEMS; IT INFRASTRUCTURES; LOW POWER; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; POWER EFFICIENCY; POWER USAGE; SERVER APPLICATIONS;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84867882102     PISSN: 07437315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpdc.2012.08.005     Document Type: Article

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