Understanding and designing new server architectures for emerging warehouse-computing environments

Proceedings - International Symposium on Computer Architecture

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 315-326

  Lim, Kevin ^a   Ranganathan, Parthasarathy ^b   Chang, Jichuan ^b   Patel, Chandrakant ^b   Mudge, Trevor ^a   Reinhardt, Steven ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c Reservoir Labs   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS; COMPUTING WORKLOADS; DISK CACHING; EVALUATION INFRASTRUCTURE; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; MEMORY SHARING; PACKAGING SOLUTIONS; POWER MODELING; SERVER ARCHITECTURES;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTERS; FLASH MEMORY; SERVERS; SOLUTIONS; WAREHOUSES;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 52749085695     PISSN: 10636897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISCA.2008.37     Document Type: Conference Paper

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