Technical perspective: the data center is the computer

  • Authors:
  • David A. Patterson

  • Affiliations:
  • U. C. Berkeley

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM - 50th anniversary issue: 1958 - 2008
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Internet services are already significant forces in searching, retail purchases, music downloads, and auctions. One vision of 21st century IT is that most users will be accessing such services over a descendant of the cell phone rather than running shrink-wrapped software on a descendant of the PC.