Applying Amdahl's other law to the data center

IBM Journal of Research and Development

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Cohen, David ^a   Petrini, Fabrizio ^b   Day, Michael D ^c   Ben Yehuda, Muli ^d   Hunter, Steven W ^e   Cummings, Uri ^f  

^a EMC   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c IBM   (United States)

^d IBM HAIFA RESEARCH LAB   (Israel)

^e IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

^f Fulcrum Microsystems   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; DIGITAL STORAGE;

COMPUTING SYSTEM; INPUT/OUTPUT; MEMORY SUBSYSTEMS; MULTI-CORE SYSTEMS; PROCESSING PERFORMANCE; PROCESSOR SYSTEMS; PROCESSOR UTILIZATION; STORAGE RESOURCES;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 77955072307     PISSN: 00188646     EISSN: 00188646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/JRD.2009.5429071     Document Type: Article

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