Cooperative Expendable Micro-Slice Servers (CEMS): Low Cost, Low Power Servers for Internet-Scale Services

The Cooperative Expendable Micro-Slice Servers (CEMS) project assesses low cost, low power servers for high-scale internet services using commodity, client-side components. The project discussed in this paper aims to establish low-cost, low-power servers that can provide better price performance and better power performance as compared to current purpose-built servers. Detailed description of the prototype server is built to collect performance data using a high-scale consumer internet service. The study says that low cost, low power systems are more cost-effective than purpose-built servers. Power that is an important issue for high-scale data centers is driven by cost and social issues. The report mentioned in this paper investigates the costs in a large-scale data center and provides an in-depth analysis of new server design optimizing servers and cost functionality. Mentioned in the paper is the fact that the work done in terms of costs and power are the correct measures of server value for high-scale services. The cost of hardware and power costs are two factors that dominate the cost of delivering high-scale services. These two servers can collectively produce the same throughput as conventional purpose-built servers at lower initial hardware cost and low operational costs. This paper proposes a new server design optimizing cost and power server and also compares the new design with a commercial server using high-scale service production workload.