Distributed computing and cloud phenomenon have become an intensively studied topic in the past decade. These technologies have been enveloped with at- tractive business models, where the customer pays only for the resources or services which have been actually utilized. Even though this popularity lead to rapid de- velopment of distributed algorithms, virtualization plat- forms, and various cloud services, many issues are still waiting to be solved. One of these issues is the question of power efficiency. In this paper, we investigate possibil- ities of applying single-board computers as platform for distributed systems and cloud computing. These small de- vices (such as Raspberry Pi) are quite power efficient and relatively cheap, so they may reduce the overall cost for cloud services. Furthermore, they may be employed to create small clusters that could replace traditional enter- prise servers and achieve lower cost and better robustness for some tasks.
['Martin Kruliš', 'Petr Stefan', 'Jakub Yaghob', 'Filip Zavoral']
Assessing Applicability of Power-Efficient Embedded Devices for Micro-Cloud Computing