Location
Comstock Memorial Union, MSUM
Document Type
Poster
Event Website
https://www.mnstate.edu/sac/
Start Date
23-4-2024 12:00 AM
Publication Date
April 2024
Description
The rise of E-waste is a growing concern as there are many toxic materials or toxic chemicals created with mishandling of the waste. Even in the school system we see obsolete computers systems laying around in closets collecting dust ready to be sent to the landfill. Our aim is to see if by clustering these old systems together we can give them new life thus reducing the need to add them to the worlds e-waste problem. Often these obsolete systems have lower powered CPUs which makes them less desirable for computing, if we cluster these systems together we can potentially use one system as a controller and borrow the other systems CPUs to raise the efficacy to a reasonable level. If this is a plausible route it could lead to a new way to reuse obsolete systems in research that requires a lot of computational power in data crunching. Our process will be to create a cluster on modern Virtual Machines to test our code and load balancing and then transfer that to the old systems. With utilizing a VM cluster we can benchmark a more modern cluster vs the obsolete computer cluster to see if where it stands. Barriers we will most likely face are utilizing newer operating systems on obsolete hardware and networking issues while connecting our cluster together.
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Reduction Of E-Waste With Multi Generational Clustering Of Obsolete Computers
Comstock Memorial Union, MSUM
The rise of E-waste is a growing concern as there are many toxic materials or toxic chemicals created with mishandling of the waste. Even in the school system we see obsolete computers systems laying around in closets collecting dust ready to be sent to the landfill. Our aim is to see if by clustering these old systems together we can give them new life thus reducing the need to add them to the worlds e-waste problem. Often these obsolete systems have lower powered CPUs which makes them less desirable for computing, if we cluster these systems together we can potentially use one system as a controller and borrow the other systems CPUs to raise the efficacy to a reasonable level. If this is a plausible route it could lead to a new way to reuse obsolete systems in research that requires a lot of computational power in data crunching. Our process will be to create a cluster on modern Virtual Machines to test our code and load balancing and then transfer that to the old systems. With utilizing a VM cluster we can benchmark a more modern cluster vs the obsolete computer cluster to see if where it stands. Barriers we will most likely face are utilizing newer operating systems on obsolete hardware and networking issues while connecting our cluster together.
https://red.mnstate.edu/sac/2024/cbac/2