Abstrakt
Distributed computing and cloud phenomenon have become an intensively studied topic in the past decade. These technologies have been enveloped with attractive business models, where the customer pays only for the resources or services which have been actually utilized.
Even though this popularity lead to rapid development of distributed algorithms, virtualization platforms, 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 possibilities of applying single-board computers as platform for distributed systems and cloud computing. These small devices (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 enterprise servers and achieve lower cost and better robustness for some tasks.