Harvesting Idle Silicon: An Energy and Throughput Analysis of Repurposed Consumer Hardware for Local Edge Clouds

An energy and throughput analysis of repurposed consumer hardware used as local edge clouds.

An energy and throughput analysis of repurposed consumer hardware used as local edge clouds. It is offered as a reference project: a complete, worked example of how a system like this is designed, built and evaluated, so that a developer can study it, run it and learn from it.

It suits learners who want to understand networks and cloud systems: building or simulating the environment, measuring performance and comparing approaches.

The main parts are a simulated or deployed environment, the algorithm or mechanism being studied, performance measurement against baselines, and charts that compare the results. The reference build uses Docker, Python, Linux, and Prometheus, with a clear project structure, setup instructions and sample data so that it can be run and extended.