Disaggregated memory for expansion and sharing in blade servers

Proceedings - International Symposium on Computer Architecture

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 267-278

  Lim, Kevin ^a   Chang, Jichuan ^b   Mudge, Trevor ^a   Ranganathan, Parthasarathy ^a   Reinhardt, Steven K ^a,c   Wenisch, Thomas F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaggregated memory; Memory blades; Memory capacity expansion; Power and cost efficiencies

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL BUILDINGS; BLADE SERVERS; BUILDING BLOCKES; COLOCATIONS; COMMODITY-BASED SYSTEMS; COST EFFICIENCY; DATA CENTERS; DISAGGREGATION; MEMORY CAPACITY; MEMORY SYSTEMS; MULTIPLE SERVERS; NEW SYSTEM; PERFORMANCE BENEFITS; POWER CONSUMPTION; POWER COSTS; REMOTE MEMORY; SHARING MEMORIES; VIRTUALIZATION LAYERS;

COMPUTERS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; COST REDUCTION;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 70450227674     PISSN: 10636897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1555754.1555789     Document Type: Conference Paper

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