Modular data centers: How to design them?

Proc. 1st ACM Workshop on Large-Scale System and Application Performance, LSAP2009, Co-located with the 2009 International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing Conference, HPDC'09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3-10

  Vishwanath, Kashi Venkatesh ^a   Greenberg, Albert ^a   Reed, Daniel A ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Containers; Data centers; Performance; Reliability

Indexed keywords

BUILDING BLOCKES; DATA CENTERS; DESIGN FLEXIBILITY; DESIGN TRADEOFF; EXTREME CASE; FIELD DATA; HARDWARE FAULTS; MODULAR DATA; MODULARIZED; PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE RELIABILITY; PRELIMINARY MODEL; SHIPPING CONTAINERS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DESIGN; DIE CASTING; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SERVERS;

CONTAINERS;

EID: 70449707892     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1552272.1552275     Document Type: Conference Paper

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