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Low power hardware—such as ARM CPUs—combined with novel storage concepts—such as Ceph—promise scalable storage solutions at lower energy consumptions than today’s standard solutions like network attached storage (NAS) systems. We have set up an ARM cluster, built of Cubieboards, which uses Ceph for storage management. We compare its performance as well as its energy consumption to typical NAS storages. The energy considerations include networking equipment, storage, as well as computing equipment. Ceph is a novel storage system which provides unified access to distributed storage units. It is a performant and fault tolerant solution for object and block storage, using commodity hardware. This allows a very flexible choice of hardware to support wide ranges of use-cases. The goal of the study is to outline paths for energy efficient storage systems.
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Gudu, D., Hardt, M. (2016). ARM Cluster for Performant and Energy-Efficient Storage. In: Lässig, J., Kersting, K., Morik, K. (eds) Computational Sustainability. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 645. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31858-5_12
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