Towards Green Data Centers

Safae Bourhnane; Mohamed Abid; Rachid Lghoul; Khalid Zine-Dine; Najib Elkamoun; Driss Benhaddou

Sustainable Energy for Smart Cities. First EAI International Conference, SESC 2019, Braga, Portugal, December 4–6, 2019, Proceedings

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Towards Green Data Centers

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-030-45694-8_23,
    author={Safae Bourhnane and Mohamed Abid and Rachid Lghoul and Khalid Zine-Dine and Najib Elkamoun and Driss Benhaddou},
    title={Towards Green Data Centers},
    proceedings={Sustainable Energy for Smart Cities. First EAI International Conference, SESC 2019, Braga, Portugal, December 4--6, 2019, Proceedings},
    proceedings_a={SESC},
    year={2020},
    month={6},
    keywords={Big Data Hadoop Raspberry Pi HPC Smart Grids Green Computing Cost-effectiveness Energy-efficiency},
    doi={10.1007/978-3-030-45694-8_23}
}

Safae Bourhnane
Mohamed Abid
Rachid Lghoul
Khalid Zine-Dine
Najib Elkamoun
Driss Benhaddou
Year: 2020
Towards Green Data Centers
SESC
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-45694-8_23

Safae Bourhnane¹^,*, Mohamed Abid²^,*, Rachid Lghoul²^,*, Khalid Zine-Dine³^,*, Najib Elkamoun¹^,*, Driss Benhaddou⁴^,*

1: Chouaib Doukkali University
2: Al Akhawayn University
3: Mohamed V University
4: University of Houston

*Contact email: s.bourhnane@aui.ma, r.abid@aui.ma, r.lghoul@aui.ma, zinedinekhalid@fsr.ac.ma, elkamoun.n@ucd.ac.ma, dbenhaddou@uh.edu

Abstract

Green Computing has been the trend among computer scientists for its eco-friendliness. It serves as a great solution to be integrated with Smart Grids (SG). Data stemming from SGs falls under the realm of Big Data as it is voluminous, various, and has a great velocity. Hence, these data need processing and storage. For this, High-Performance Computing, through clustering a set of computers, proves necessary. Nowadays, with the hardware advances that the world is witnessing, the Raspberry Pi (RP) creates a number of opportunities to deploy cost-effective and energy-efficient clusters, which respect the concepts of Green Computing. In this paper, we are presenting the work done within a USAID sponsored project which aims at developing a SG testbed at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco. We are presenting the deployment of a 5-node cluster based on RPs. The cluster has Hadoop installed and runs the TestDFSIO and Terasort benchmarks for the performance analysis in addition to an energy efficiency analysis.

Keywords: Big Data Hadoop Raspberry Pi HPC Smart Grids Green Computing Cost-effectiveness Energy-efficiency

Published: 2020-06-05
Appears in: ACM Digital Library

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45694-8_23