Server Designs for Warehouse-Computing Environments

  • Authors:

  • Kevin Lim;Parthasarathy Ranganathan;Jichuan Chang;Chandrakant Patel;Trevor Mudge;Steven K. Reinhardt

  • Affiliations:

  • University of Michigan;Hewlett-Packard Labs;Hewlett-Packard Labs;Hewlett-Packard Labs;University of Michigan;University of Michigan

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Micro
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The enormous scale of warehouse-computing environments leads to unique requirements in which cost and power figure prominently. Models and metrics quantifying these requirements, along with a benchmark suite to capture workload behavior, help identify bottlenecks and evaluate solutions. A holistic approach leads to a new system architecture incorporating volume non-server-class components in novel packaging solutions, with memory sharing and flash-based disk caching.