Future Cluster Andrew Krioukov Prashanth Mohan
Sun Box
Solar Panels Peak Sun Hours (PSH) 315 W / m 2 at peak (SunPower E19) Daily: 1.26 kWh / m 2 = MJ / m 2 Assume 4 PSH
Day Design and Analysis of Micro-Solar Power Systems for Wireless Sensor Networks Jaein Jeong, Xiaofan Jiang, David Culler
Week
Provision to Peak
513 – Not Enough Sun Insufficient energy to service your request. Please try again later.
Deficit
Provision 100x
Surplus
Trade-offs
Sun Box 8’ x 8’ x 20’ ~15 m 2 per face
Embedded Servers? 600 MHz ARM 256 MB RAM 3” x 3” x 0.5” Runs Linux, Apache, PHP, MySQL, etc.
Rack 2U = 3.5” x 19” x 28” 6 wide x 28 deep = 168 Beagles ~32GB RAM ~100GHz < $25k 4 cores x 8 CPU x 2Ghz = 64 GHz ~16GB RAM $10k vs