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Hajji, W and Tso, FP (2016) Understanding the Performance of Low Power Raspberry Pi Cloud for Big Data. Electronics, 5 (2). ISSN 2079-9292
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Abstract
Nowadays, Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices generate data at high speed and large volume.
Often the data require real-time processing to support high system responsiveness which can be
supported by localised Cloud and/or Fog computing paradigms. However, there are considerably
large deployments of IoT such as sensor networks in remote areas where Internet connectivity is
sparse, challenging the localised Cloud and/or Fog computing paradigms. With the advent of the
Raspberry Pi, a credit card-sized single board computer, there is a great opportunity to construct
low-cost, low-power portable cloud to support real-time data processing next to IoT deployments.
In this paper, we extend our previous work on constructing Raspberry Pi Cloud to study its
feasibility for real-time big data analytics under realistic application-level workload in both native
and virtualised environments. We have extensively tested the performance of a single node Raspberry
Pi 2 Model B with httperf and a cluster of 12 nodes with Apache Spark and HDFS (Hadoop Distributed
File System). Our results have demonstrated that our portable cloud is useful for supporting real-time
big data analytics. On the other hand, our results have also unveiled that overhead for CPU-bound
workload in virtualised environment is surprisingly high, at 67.2%. We have found that, for big data
applications, the virtualisation overhead is fractional for small jobs but becomes more significant for
large jobs, up to 28.6%.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
| Divisions: | Computer Science & Mathematics |
| Publisher: | MDPI |
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| Date Deposited: | 15 Jun 2016 08:09 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2021 12:47 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.3390/electronics5020029 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/3778 |
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