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The Datacenter as a Computer [electronic resource] : An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines / by Luiz Barroso, Urs Hoelzle.

By: Barroso, Luiz [author.].
Contributor(s): Hoelzle, Urs [author.] | SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture: Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2009Edition: 1st ed. 2009.Description: IV, 108 p. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783031017223.Subject(s): Electronic circuits | Microprocessors | Computer architecture | Electronic Circuits and Systems | Processor ArchitecturesAdditional physical formats: Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification: 621.3815 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Introduction -- Workloads and Software Infrastructure -- Hardware Building Blocks -- Datacenter Basics -- Energy and Power Efficiency -- Modeling Costs -- Dealing with Failures and Repairs -- Closing Remarks.
In: Springer Nature eBookSummary: As computation continues to move into the cloud, the computing platform of interest no longer resembles a pizza box or a refrigerator, but a warehouse full of computers. These new large datacenters are quite different from traditional hosting facilities of earlier times and cannot be viewed simply as a collection of co-located servers. Large portions of the hardware and software resources in these facilities must work in concert to efficiently deliver good levels of Internet service performance, something that can only be achieved by a holistic approach to their design and deployment. In other words, we must treat the datacenter itself as one massive warehouse-scale computer (WSC). We describe the architecture of WSCs, the main factors influencing their design, operation, and cost structure, and the characteristics of their software base. We hope it will be useful to architects and programmers of today's WSCs, as well as those of future many-core platforms which may one day implement the equivalent of today's WSCs on a single board. Table of Contents: Introduction / Workloads and Software Infrastructure / Hardware Building Blocks / Datacenter Basics / Energy and Power Efficiency / Modeling Costs / Dealing with Failures and Repairs / Closing Remarks.
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Introduction -- Workloads and Software Infrastructure -- Hardware Building Blocks -- Datacenter Basics -- Energy and Power Efficiency -- Modeling Costs -- Dealing with Failures and Repairs -- Closing Remarks.

As computation continues to move into the cloud, the computing platform of interest no longer resembles a pizza box or a refrigerator, but a warehouse full of computers. These new large datacenters are quite different from traditional hosting facilities of earlier times and cannot be viewed simply as a collection of co-located servers. Large portions of the hardware and software resources in these facilities must work in concert to efficiently deliver good levels of Internet service performance, something that can only be achieved by a holistic approach to their design and deployment. In other words, we must treat the datacenter itself as one massive warehouse-scale computer (WSC). We describe the architecture of WSCs, the main factors influencing their design, operation, and cost structure, and the characteristics of their software base. We hope it will be useful to architects and programmers of today's WSCs, as well as those of future many-core platforms which may one day implement the equivalent of today's WSCs on a single board. Table of Contents: Introduction / Workloads and Software Infrastructure / Hardware Building Blocks / Datacenter Basics / Energy and Power Efficiency / Modeling Costs / Dealing with Failures and Repairs / Closing Remarks.

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