Low-power Amdahl-balanced blades for data intensive computing

Operating Systems Review (ACM)

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 71-75

  Szalay, Alexander S ^a   Bell, Gordon C ^b   Huang, H Howie ^c   Terzis, Andreas ^a   White, Alainna ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^c George Washington University   (United States)

Author keywords

Data intensive science; Solid state disks

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING CLUSTERS; CURRENT SYSTEM; DATA-INTENSIVE APPLICATION; DATA-INTENSIVE COMPUTING; DATA-INTENSIVE SCIENCE; ENERGY EFFICIENT; LOW POWER; LOW-POWER CONSUMPTION; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; POWER CONSUMPTION; SCIENTIFIC DATA; TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP;

CLUSTER COMPUTING; DISKS (MACHINE COMPONENTS); DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); PROGRAM PROCESSORS; THROUGHPUT;

DATA WAREHOUSES;

EID: 77958115309     PISSN: 01635980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1740390.1740407     Document Type: Article

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