Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
adrian@discuss.systems ("Adrian Sampson") wrote:
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- Junkyard Computing: Repurposing Discarded Smartphones to Minimize Carbon Jennifer Switzer Gabriel Marcano Ryan Kastner Pat Pannuto (remote)
- We benchmark discarded smart-phones, some of which are now a decade old. We then build out a cloudlet of Pixel 3A smartphones, purchased on eBay for $65 USD. We measure the performance of the cloudlet using DeathStarBench, a benchmarking suite for cloud microservices [19]. (remote)
- Graphs that compare the DeathStarBench performance on their “junkyard” server versus various EC2 instances. The series in the graphs are several AWS mumbo-jumbo names and “Phones.” (remote)