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Gerry McGovern

Junkyard computing

For specific workloads, clusters of repurposed phones are cheaper and more carbon efficient than traditional servers.

More broadly, scavenging unwanted equipment shows excellent potential for building economic and carbon-efficient
systems, especially when renewable energy is plentiful.

Junkyard Computing: Repurposing Discarded Smartphones to Minimize Carbon, Jennifer Switzer, Gabriel Marcano, Ryan Kastner, Pat Pannuto, ACM, 2023
dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/357

7 May at 16:30 | Open on mastodon.green
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@gerrymcgovern
My old roommate and I used to get discarded servers, old p100 (this was 20 years ago) processors, but like on a motherboard that held eight of them. For, like, $10.

That became our home server.

There is a lot you can do with old hardware.

7 May at 18:56 | Open on lgbtqia.space
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