HOW GREEN IS YOUR CLOUD? - A 64-b ARM-based Heterogeneous Computing Platform with NoC Interconnect for Server-on-chip Energy-efficient Cloud Computing

Sergio Saponara, Marcello Coppola, Luca Fanucci

2012

Abstract

This position paper discusses the role of energy-efficient cloud-server-on-chip (CSoC) solutions to reduce the total cost of ownership and the ecological impact of cloud computing data centers. A green cloud computing platform, based on a multi core architecture with upcoming 64-b ARM processors of the ARMv8 family, interconnected by a service-aware Network on Chip (NoC) ensuring cache coherency, could reduce costs (due to energy consumption and extra cooling systems) and increase system reliability (by avoiding thermal issues) of cloud data centers. Implementation figures on 28 nm and 20 nm silicon technology nodes from STMicroelectronics are provided.

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Saponara S., Coppola M. and Fanucci L. (2012). HOW GREEN IS YOUR CLOUD? - A 64-b ARM-based Heterogeneous Computing Platform with NoC Interconnect for Server-on-chip Energy-efficient Cloud Computing . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-8565-05-1, pages 135-140. DOI: 10.5220/0003959801350140


in Bibtex Style

@conference{closer12,
author={Sergio Saponara and Marcello Coppola and Luca Fanucci},
title={HOW GREEN IS YOUR CLOUD? - A 64-b ARM-based Heterogeneous Computing Platform with NoC Interconnect for Server-on-chip Energy-efficient Cloud Computing},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2012},
pages={135-140},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003959801350140},
isbn={978-989-8565-05-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - HOW GREEN IS YOUR CLOUD? - A 64-b ARM-based Heterogeneous Computing Platform with NoC Interconnect for Server-on-chip Energy-efficient Cloud Computing
SN - 978-989-8565-05-1
AU - Saponara S.
AU - Coppola M.
AU - Fanucci L.
PY - 2012
SP - 135
EP - 140
DO - 10.5220/0003959801350140