Warehouse Scale Computers: Bandwidth Drivers for Large Scale Compute Systems
Conference: ECOC 2009 - 35th European Conference on Optical Communication
09/20/2009 - 09/24/2009 at Vienna, Austria
Proceedings: ECOC 2009
Pages: 1Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Gill, Vijay (Network Architecture, Google)
Abstract:
Traditionally, mechanical, power and civil engineers built the datacenter building, unencumbered by any useful knowledge of what kinds of machines would be placed there, what kind of software they would run, and what kinds of activity patterns they would experience. The results were not impressive.