Pandaboard Cloud Cluster Running Google App Engine

Noritsuna Imamura showed an ARM cloud cluster built with 6 Pandaboards at  Linaro Connect Q4.11. Noritsuna is a member of the Open Embedded Software Foundation (OESF), a Japanese organization that support Open Source embedded software.

Google App Engine (GAE) on ARM Server (12 Cores)
Cluster of 6 Pandaboards Running GAE

The cluster is made of 6 panda boards with a total 6 GB of RAM (1GB per board) that runs the Google App Engine (http://code.google.com/appengine/) in Ubuntu/Linaro 11.09 release. The middleware used is TyphoonAE, a full-featured and productive serving environment to run Google App Engine (Python) applications. This type of server hosts web applications such as Rietveld (used in the demo below) to be run on (thin) clients. There are also plenty of other software (required by Google App Engine) that runs in this ARM cloud such as MySQL, Apache2, memcached and more.

In the video, a power meter shows that the cluster consumes about 35 W in low activity mode.

Norisuna had a comparison table that showed the Pandaboard cloud (OMAP4 @ 1GHz – 12 Cores) uses 4x times space and 5x less power (50W vs. 257 W) than a Xeon 1.8GHz Quad Core server with about the same amount of processing power and memory (6GB vs. 8GB).

One drawback is that the software is located on the SD Cards of the pandaboards so it can be relatively slow, but this could probably be replaced by SSDs connected via USB without affecting power consumption too much.


The presentation slides are available at http://www.slideshare.net/noritsuna/panda-cloud

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Vincent RABAH
Vincent RABAH
12 years ago

Hi,

I’ve wrote a blog post about a ARM cluster with Ubuntu, made by Canonical and also made using Pandaboard. Feel free to read it !
http://www.it-wars.com/article263/un-cluster-arm-pour-ubuntu

Regards,
Vincent RABAH

Vincent RABAH
Vincent RABAH
12 years ago


Yes the purpose of this farm is to build the Ubuntu distro, that take a long time on ARM proc, even if they get more power, more cores 😉

I’m a ARM addicted, and I LOVE your blog 🙂

Regards
Vincent

av500
av500
12 years ago

“…Xeon 1.8GHz Quad Core server with about the same amount of processing power and memory…”

any data to back up that claim? Is that just raw MHz or real benchmarks?

Vincent RABAH
Vincent RABAH
12 years ago

@av500 It really depend on what you need … – For pure performance -> Xeon – For scalability, efficiency, no power consumming -> ARM Using ARM teach me 1 thing : EFFICIENCY ! For example, my blog is self-hosted on an ARMv5 DockStar with USB DD and 128Mb of RAM, I have to optimize image size and compression level, using caching, no database, small php cms engine … To deliver contant even faster than some other web server using Xeon 🙂 On my blog I’ve made some benchmarks, I can serve 2000 unique visitors / 12h !!! And actually I… Read more »

PDR Patnaik
12 years ago

Hi every one,
Can anybody help me setup my cloud with EUCALYPTUS cloud on PANDABOARD.
My project link:
http://sites.google.com/site/witpanda/project-definition/pandacloud
http://pandaboard.org/content/pandacloud-prototype-cloud-computing-platform-panda-board
I have been working for around 6 months, but having problem with eucalyptus-nc and xen installation on pandaboard.
Any help will be appretiated.

Thanks in advance.
PDR Patnaik

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