CommC: A Multi-Purpose COMModity Hardware Cluster DOI Creative Commons
Agorakis Bompotas, Nikitas-Rigas Kalogeropoulos, Christos Makris

et al.

Future Internet, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 17(3), P. 121 - 121

Published: March 11, 2025

The high costs of acquiring and maintaining high-performance computing (HPC) resources pose significant barriers for medium-sized enterprises educational institutions, often forcing them to rely on expensive cloud-based solutions with recurring costs. This paper introduces CommC, a multi-purpose commodity hardware cluster designed reduce operational expenses extend lifespan by repurposing underutilized resources. By integrating virtualization (KVM Proxmox) containerization (Kubernetes Docker), CommC creates scalable, secure, cost-efficient environment. proposed system enables seamless resource sharing, ensuring availability fault tolerance both containerized virtualized workloads. To demonstrate its versatility, we deploy big data engines like Apache Spark alongside traditional web services, showcasing CommC’s ability support diverse workloads efficiently. Our cost analysis reveals that reduces up 77.93% compared alternatives while also mitigating e-waste accumulation extending the existing hardware. significantly improves environmental sustainability cloud providers, where frequent turnover contributes rising carbon emissions. research fields computing, management, sustainable IT infrastructure providing replicable, adaptable, financially viable alternative solutions. Future work will focus automating allocation, enhancing real-time monitoring, advanced security mechanisms further optimize performance usability.

Language: Английский

CommC: A Multi-Purpose COMModity Hardware Cluster DOI Creative Commons
Agorakis Bompotas, Nikitas-Rigas Kalogeropoulos, Christos Makris

et al.

Future Internet, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 17(3), P. 121 - 121

Published: March 11, 2025

The high costs of acquiring and maintaining high-performance computing (HPC) resources pose significant barriers for medium-sized enterprises educational institutions, often forcing them to rely on expensive cloud-based solutions with recurring costs. This paper introduces CommC, a multi-purpose commodity hardware cluster designed reduce operational expenses extend lifespan by repurposing underutilized resources. By integrating virtualization (KVM Proxmox) containerization (Kubernetes Docker), CommC creates scalable, secure, cost-efficient environment. proposed system enables seamless resource sharing, ensuring availability fault tolerance both containerized virtualized workloads. To demonstrate its versatility, we deploy big data engines like Apache Spark alongside traditional web services, showcasing CommC’s ability support diverse workloads efficiently. Our cost analysis reveals that reduces up 77.93% compared alternatives while also mitigating e-waste accumulation extending the existing hardware. significantly improves environmental sustainability cloud providers, where frequent turnover contributes rising carbon emissions. research fields computing, management, sustainable IT infrastructure providing replicable, adaptable, financially viable alternative solutions. Future work will focus automating allocation, enhancing real-time monitoring, advanced security mechanisms further optimize performance usability.

Language: Английский

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